[WikiEN-l] The Economist on "notability"

[Brian Salter-Duke]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:38:39AM -0800, Matthew Brown wrote:
> A good current example of (IMO problematic) deletionist arguments can
> be found at [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mockingbird Don't Sing]]
> -
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mockingbird_Don%27t_Sing
> 
> - in which several people argue that the article on a movie be deleted
> DESPITE IT MEETING THE "NOTABILITY GUIDELINE" ALREADY ESTABLISHED,
> with comments like:
> 
> * "I don't especially like the trend of article creation for seemingly
> every banal film coming down the pipeline these days, and here we can
> actually do something about it"
> * "We're trying to build a better encyclopedia, and the presence of
> this article isn't helping, which is why it should go, even if it
> happens not to transgress WP:FICT"
> * "If anyone voting "keep" has something other than WP:ILIKEIT, let's hear it"
> 
> -Matt

Yes, and it was a snowjob keep, with these approaches strongly
criticised. Good work in fact.
 
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