[Wikipedia-l] Entries getting delete...

[Maury Markowitz]

>For example, I would delete "So-and-so is an actress", but would think
>twice about "So-and-so is an actress. She has appeared in (bluelinked)
>movies X, Y, and Z." One asserts notability. The other doesn't. I
>don't see what the problem is here.

The problem is that users who have not read the huge and ever-growing list 
of wiki policies and procedures are unaware of the notability guidelines and 
simply don't post anything about notability. No one would; did you put a 
section in the last history report you wrote called "why I think this topic 
is worthy of my report"? It certainly not something that commonly exists 
outside the wiki world. I've never seen another encyclopedia that has a 
section on every article called "why we put this article in here".

So a knowledgable editors spends time writing what I thought was a useful 
article. Then someone who is unfamiliar with the topic tags it. And then 
along comes an admin who's following a cat or robot-built list looking for 
articles that have been tagged, and presto-deleto.

It took me about 15 seconds to confirm that the company in question is 
widely known and reported on. A perfectly valid article was deleted due to a 
combination of a new editor being punished for not following policy that he 
could not possibly be aware of, combined with lazyness on the part of the 
tagging user and the deleting admin. Neither one could be bothered to do a 
google search, or if they did, couldn't be bother to report their reasons.

I see this _all_the_time_. The wikipedia is about the articles, not the 
policies, but it seems an ever-growing number of users and admins are 
forgetting this.

Maury

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