[WikiEN-l] Defeat: Notability is Policy

[Steven Walling]

Deleting poorly sourced articles that cannot be improved is not a bad
idea. Enshrining the idea that we must do so on the level of policy,
however, is a terrible idea.

Why? It is something we must do. I guess the difference is that people like
you think it's just "not a bad idea"  and a necessary evil. I think it
improves the encyclopedia.  Seeing crap stubs that have sat uncited and
untouched for years go down the tube is a relief. I don't have to worry
about some newspaperman latching on to them or little billy getting an F
over them.

On Feb 1, 2008 4:03 PM, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Feb 1, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
>
> > Get over it. Nobility has been being used as (effective) policy for
> > many
> > months, if not years.
>
> It's been used. I've yet to see any evidence of its effectiveness, and
> particularly no evidence that it is meaningfully superior to a general
> policy of deleting based on qualitative rather than quantitative
> judgments.
>
> > Of course deleting any article is going to get
> > emotional, people are invested in article's they write. But that
> > level of
> > emotion doesn't negate the fact that we just simply can't include
> > every
> > possible topic under the sun and still produce an accurate and
> > reliable
> > encyclopedia. Space is not the issue, quality is. The breadth has to
> > stop
> > somewhere, so we can get to depth.
> >
>
> Anybody who claims that the deploying of notability on AfD has a thing
> to do with assessing the quality of articles is lying to you.
>
> > And the WP:V addition is a fabulous idea. I've always operated that
> > way, and
> > it is (to me) the core reason we need notability: we can't be
> > accurate on a
> > subject if there aren't reliable sources available. If accuracy is
> > literally
> > impossible, then we shouldn't have an article on it.
>
> Deleting poorly sourced articles that cannot be improved is not a bad
> idea. Enshrining the idea that we must do so on the level of policy,
> however, is a terrible idea.
>
> -Phil
>
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