On 11/03/2008, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
At least for what I can do best, when I see someone asserted to be a notable author without any evidence, I look. Depending on what I find, I act to keep or delete. I follow the evidence: I've done 2 searches for things at AfD in the last 2 days, where people were !voting both ways without any basis but their intuition--in each case I looked properly, found nothing really adequate, laid out what I did find, and said delete or weak delete. Only when I find enough for a keep, do I say keep.
I should point out, by the way, that although I consider AFD's culture severely problematic - the siege mentality and consequent newbie-biting having become so bad as to make international press - I fully understand how it got that way. Anyone who thinks they're an "inclusionist" - go do Special:Newpages patrol for a while. It's a firehose of sewage. Over 50% of new articles are shot on sight, and they fully deserve it. Most of what hits AFD deserves to die as quickly as possible too. Oh dear Lord it's awful. No wonder some editors seem to go on mad rampages with a machete through the article space.
- d.