[Wikipedia-l] Non-notability "abuse"

[Ray Saintonge]

Rich Holton wrote:
> J.L.W.S. The Special One wrote:
>   
>> My sentiments exactly.
>>
>> 2007/9/22, Ian Tresman <ian2 at knowledge.co.uk>:
>>     
>>> At 23:09 21/09/2007, Dan Bolser wrote:
>>>       
>>>>> There's a big fuzzy
>>>>> middle where we need to begin by assuming that the person posting the
>>>>> information is acting in good faith, and often approaching the content
>>>>> from a different perspecive.  This won't save all the questioned
>>>>> articles, but it may bring peace.  perhaps we should begin treating
>>>>> simple "nn" deletion requests as a breach of good faith.
>>>>>           
>>>> That would be nice. I think this is the correct attitude.
>>>>         
>>> I think people who don't want an article will still claim it is
>>> non-notable... even though editors are acting in good faith, from a
>>> different perspective, or whatever
> Where would that leave articles like "Joe Black is Eric Black's youngest 
> brother." ?
>   
If that is the _entirety_ of the article, without giving a hint about 
who either Joe or Eric is, then all the article has is purely personal 
information. Are there any links to the article?  What, if any, is the 
contributor's editing history.  These should all be considerations in 
making an evaluation of the article.  Perhaps a person proposing a 
deletion shaold answer a series of questions that show what he has done 
to check the meaningfullness of the article.

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