[Wikipedia-l] Deletions, speedy deletions... and retributions...

[Till Westermayer]

Two or three short remarks:

Ronald Chmara schrieb am 26.04.2007 07:22:
> On Apr 25, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Till Westermayer wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I have removed the proposed-for-deletion tag -- I guess it is a
>> borderline case
> 
> Borderline? Hm... It's WP:COI, the only published "sources" are not  
> only self generated (WP:SPS), they're also blogs loaded with viagra  
> SPAM and forum sites... this is the very reason *why* we have so many  
> guidelines on en, lest folks think that they can just throw up some  
> content and therefore  deserve their own wikipedia entry. AfD'ing  
> this and any siblings.

About "throwing up content" -- I guess this overestimates Wikipedias 
notability: most often there is some content, and the Wikipedia entry 
follows later. That people do it the other way round (or produce 
content only to get an Wikipedia entry) is highly improbable and 
definitly not the case with FN.

>>>  (As one editor
>>> once told me, good naturedly, "If I want to give you a reason to  
>>> block
>>> your article, I could give you any one of 31 good reasons for it."
>>> Yeah, reasons are easy to come by, once someone's mind is made up.)
> 
> Experienced editors may already be quite familiar with the criteria.  
> So far, I've counted: VAIN/COI, CORP/ORG, SPS, V. It might or might  
> not be SNOW, I'll leave that to others to decide. :)

Argh. "Real life" got me a year ago or so, which lead to a drastical 
lowering of my Wikipedia-activity. In that short time, somehow lots of 
acronyms creep out somewhere -- most of them I don't recognize.

>>> * There should be good reason for deletion of any page (this should
>>> not be taken to mean that I'm making even an indirect case for my
>>> page.
> 
> AfD requires reasons, and consensus.

That's the reason why I deleted the notice (and thus enabled that 
someone -- you -- brings it to AfD). I don't think the AfD-process 
works well in all cases, but we will see. And at least I don't think I 
can judge if an Indian FOSS journalist is notable or not -- my 
intuition is a sort of notability (not because FN is active here, but 
I think the structual bias he describes is there).

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