[WikiEN-l] What is happening to the community

[Screamer]

David Goodman wrote:
> Screamer, you seem to have confused a number of things. The assertion
> of notability requirement for   does not apply specifically to
> BLPs--it applies to any articles about people or some kinds of groups
> or web content that do not assert or indicate some plausible
> notability or importance. Meeting it does not provide that the article
> be kept, it just provides that it not be speedily deleted as obviously
> impossible altogether. It can further be contested by anyone except
> the author. It's just a shortcut requirement to get things quickly
> deleted that do not warrant a discussion.
>
> What you are probably thinking of is the provision for summary
> deletion of BLPs as "Any administrator, acting on their own judgment,
> may delete an article that is substantially a biography of a living
> person if they believe that it (and every previous version of it)
> significantly violates any aspect of the relevant policy. " as enacted
> by arb com at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Badlydrawnjeff#Summary_deletion_of_BLPs
>
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Screamer <scream at datascreamer.com> wrote:
>   
>> David Goodman wrote:
>>  > Just what is the difference between
>>  > "does not meet the requirements for inclusion, "
>>  >
>>
>>  No assertion of notability on a BLP
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>>
>>  > and
>>  > " the community does not want it included..." ?
>>  >
>>  >
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>>  A consensus of DELETE on articles for deletion.
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>>
>>  > Perhaps you mean, whether or not it means the requirements that the
>>  > community has put into  formal guidelines, and whether or not it meets
>>  > the idiosyncratic feeling at the time?
>>  >
>>  No, I mean the clarification above.
>>
>>
>>  ./scream
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David,

And you seem to be confused about my example.  I'll clarify, an article 
about myself won't at this time meet the a requirement for inclusion, 
because at this time, it won't assert any notability.  I'm not a notable 
person, I've done nothing to make myself notable.  There are no sources 
about me.  This was my very specific example to answer your question.


La boule est dans votre cour.

./scream