On 02/02/2008, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Those of you who keep railing about the "evil trend of deletionism" convienently forget that much of the deleted articles are in direct violation of policies that have nothing to do with notability.
If they can be deleted for reasons other than notability, why do you need notability to delete them?
I was thoroughly amused to open enwp this morning and find a notice telling me an article I created had been prod-tagged. (Someone has a bot set up to do this, now. Good for them)
So, I go to look.
"It is proposed that this article be deleted because of the following concern: As per Wikipedia policy, small-town mayors are not notable just for being mayors."
Ah, the impeccable timing of coincidence.
(The *guideline* - not policy - says, incidentally, that "Municipal politicians are not inherently notable just for being in politics, but neither are they inherently non-notable just because they're in local politics - evaluate each case on its own individual merits." The town in question is the thirteenth-largest city in a European nation.)
I can't quite remember why I wrote this article. I think I was expecting someone to expand it and wanted to give them a kick-start. Ah, well, untagged now, it's not hurting anyone.