[WikiEN-l] Another notability casualty

Ken Arromdee arromdee at rahul.net
Wed Feb 24 06:25:36 UTC 2010


On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, David Goodman wrote:
> The existing situation is of great assistance to another species: the
> wiki-barrister,  expert is using whatever legal processes are available to
> achieve equity. .  If such a person  intuitively think an article should be
> kept, they will find arguments to keep it, and vice-versa. For essentially
> every article at AfD contested in good faith, they  could find plausible
> arguments based on policy for either keeping or deleting. For  the
> unscrupulous  subspecies, they could find arguments of some sort for a good
> deal that is not really reasonably contestable.

This is of course true too.  People don't think video game composers deserve
to have articles; so they argue for non-notability.

Whether this should be the case is another story.  I consider this to be
an abuse of the rules.



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