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Bishoy Habib – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 02:52, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Bishoy Habib (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|AfD)

the reason is because this is a real rapper who many people and fans adore, and he is on the rise. a wikipedia page for this artist would only be appropriate. and besides, all of the information on there was true, and so was the reference. many people are not satisfied now that it has been removed, so please attend to this ASAP, thank you. Egyamanda 21:22, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • I definatley agree with amanda, please overturn your decision and dont delete this page. as you can tell by his website, he has thousands of fans across the world (mostly through the internet), and killing his wikipedia page would leave many of those fans feeling empty about this rapper. Its best purpose is probably just to inform his fans more about his personal life than his own website provides them. i for one thought it was an excellent idea, because so many people i know wanted to find out more about this aspiring young artist. therefore i am all in favor of overturning this decision and restoring this wikipedia page. if it isnt restored, that would really suck for all the Coptic Orthodox people across the world, who are fans of his music and want to know more about him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iamtheman2000 (talkcontribs)
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Adam4Adam – Speedy deletion overturned, listed at AfDtrialsanderrors 02:56, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Article asserts notability through verifiable sources. More can easily be provided. It is neither POV nor spammy; it was Wikified and had considerable information within. This article is being confused with previous versions with which the current author has no connection. The article was Speedy Deleted desite a "hangon" that had been there less than 24 hours. The topic of this article is a website used by men to meet for sex. The subject of this article may be creating an unjust bias against the article itself. House of Scandal 18:35, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Can you post the sources here? --badlydrawnjeff talk 18:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn I spend alot of time in AfD debates and I know the difference between a good article and a bad one. Although I can't see the Adam4Adam article, I have never seen the author make an article that wasn't properly cited. What's going on here? Shaundakulbara 19:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Edit history restored behind screen. ~ trialsanderrors 19:52, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note - I'm the most recent admin to delete the article. The assertion above is operating under a critical misconception, the speedy delete had nothing to do with it being a repost or lacking sources, it was because the website fails to meet the WP:WEB criteria used as part of Wikipedia's effort to establish standards of notability. WP:CSD Articles, subsection 7 is the specific speedy delete criteria employed. Reviewing the content of the article, it should be evident that the action was proper and the article should not be restored in its current form. - CHAIRBOY () 20:06, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • The New York Times, Washington Blade and New York Daily News were referenced to show its notabiliy. These don't count as WP:WEB-required "multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the site itself"? As shown here, other references could have been provided if requested. Those three sources are enough so that the "hangon" should have been honored. As someone asked above, "what's going on here"? Seriously, what's really going on here and why wasn't an opportunity given to address concerns if it is true that "the speedy delete had nothing to do with it being a repost"? House of Scandal 20:19, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Are the actual mentions themselves non-trivial? I mean, for instance, the mention in the New York Daily News is ridiculously unimportant. Just mentioning the name of a site in an article (really just a side-note to the gossip column in that article) shouldn't (and I don't think does) count as much.  OzLawyer / talk  20:43, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • Several articles concern Manhunt.net, Craig's List and Adam4Adam collectively. Others mention Adam4Adam only. If given an opportunity, I would have discerned between trivial and non-trivial references. Why wasn't this article sent to AfD debate if notability was questioned? Why would someone Speedy Delete a substantial, Wikified article that has references and a "hangon" request? I'm not new here and I have seen articles with a fraction of this article's merit get a chance. The swift and unilateral deletion of this article was not per guidelines. House of Scandal 20:56, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. The "hangon" tag was being abused by 71.160.33.83 (talk · contribs). I can find no abuse of process in this deletion. Whether or not it actually is notable is irrelevant here, the article as it stood when deleted did not make the claim to notability as far as I can see. If the article is notable, this can be established during a request for undeletion. Please note that I am endorsing deletion, not opposing undeletion. --Yamla 21:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn. Failure to meet WP:WEB is not a speedy deletion criterion, and a website being used to lure a murder victim is certainly a claim of notability. Whether that claim is sufficient and whether the references adequately support it is a question for AFD. —Celithemis 22:11, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment: That's not quite accurate, WP:WEB serves as guidance for CSD A7, which _is_ a valid speedy deletion criteria for non-notable websites. Regards, - CHAIRBOY () 23:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    No, it is quite accurate. A7 is that the article does not assert notability, not merely that it isn't notable. -Amark moo! 01:21, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak overturn and list at AFD per this not being an A7 (it asserted notability - per A7, an assertion is enough), though I would more than likely argue to delete in an AFD, as most of the sources provided are either trivial or are multiple copies of the same Reuters story, which is not about the website itself (it just mentions it, which is not enough). --Coredesat 22:19, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn - There's also an article about it at the New York Times Here's a second NYTimes article. This is obviously a notable subject. This seems to have been way too hastily deleted. Jeffpw 22:45, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn owing to numerous sources provided in this DRV. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 22:58, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I have not been able to review all the sources alleged here because two of them require subscriptions. However, of the sources that I have reviewed, none establish the notability of this website. [1] is not an article about the website. It mentions the website in passing as an example but provides no detail to suggest that it is anything more than an average example of such a website. [2] and [3] are reprints of the same article (and thus is not evidence of "multiple" coverage). [4] draws from the same article but isn't even a full reprint - it's a mere abstract of the Reuters article. [5], [6], [(unreliable source - do not use) www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/tittletattle/article_21210892.shtml], [7], [8] and [9] are independent articles but again are mere casual mentions of the website in articles which are about completely different topics. Unless definitive sources can be presented which are actually about this website, I must endorse the speedy-deletion. Rossami (talk) 23:52, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion Speedy deletion decision seems ok. Article made no claim to encyclopedic notability. I agree with Rossami on the sources. Sources provided use the website as an example of a wider category of websites - this kind of use is a trivial reference.Bwithh 23:58, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment The site has also been the subject of independant reviews which concern it solely. One neutral (semi-disfavorable) review is quoted in the article. The articles in which Adam4Adam is mentioned aren't about "completely different topics". They seem to be about (A) this sort of site re:STD's, (B) this sort of site re:the US military and (C) this sort of site re:relationships. When publications like New York Times discuss these topics, Adam4Adam is often mentioned. That the esssence of notability -- to be noted repeatedly --WikiLawyering aside.Shaundakulbara 00:51, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I just love how "Wikilawyering" can wheeled out to toss any beyond-superficial consideration of policy overboard. Bwithh 02:57, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Response - On the LGBT page there is a small section devoted to deletion discussions. This is one of the articles listed there. The link goes directly here. There is no prodding there about how someone should vote. If the article was about plants the opinion of people involved with the botany project might be solicited. Etcetera. Elsewhere, the article creator asked for admin help right after being told by you:

"I would have gladly undeleted the article at your first request, and was ready to do so (as I have any number of other times when people have asked), but then I read your immediate accusation of "abuse of authority". That's uncalled for, and while you're welcome to your opinion, I now invite you to find another admin to restore it for you."

Since when does an article creator saying something an admin doesn't like have a bearing on an article's notability? You told someone today to trust the process. To take issue with LBGT project people being informed about this discussion is contemptable. Shaundakulbara 07:20, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Response - Chairboy, your comment above seems a red herring to me, designed to distract from the real issue, which is that the article was deleted in spite of having notability. It also seems to me (once again, from your own comments) that you have your back up about this issue, and are being defensive. Seems to me you made a mistake. Another admin made a similar mistake with this article, and retored it. I urge you to do the same. And I also take issue with your implication that the LGBT Project is being used for votestacking, and that we project members are somehow not objective enough to determine if an article subject meets WP:N. If I have misinterpreted your remarks, I apologize, but I don't think I have. Jeffpw 08:34, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Your member Shaundakulbara has made personal attacks against me, implied that I'm on some sort of anti-gay crusade, called me an asshole, and so on, and your congratulatory backslapping for these actions in this edit is unfortunate. I made no statement that any vote stacking was taking place, if there's higher than usual turnout in any DRV, it's customary to make a note for the closing admin to review so he/she can make that determination for themselves once the review is over. In regards to my comment above, read the exchange. I've done nothing to prevent anyone from restoring the article, but when a user immediately launches into accusations that I'm some sort of evil, power mad dictator who's conspiring against them, why should I go out of my way for them? I'm a volunteer here, like anyone else. My responsibility is to exercise good judgement, and when someone else tagged the article for speedy deletion, I reviewed it and determined that it was an A7 deletion. If I made an error, then it should have been easy to find someone to undelete it once I told HouseOfScandal that I didn't appreciate his immediate assumption of bad faith. - CHAIRBOY () 13:33, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

More deceit, more hypocrisy, and now paranoid histrionics too.

  • Chairboy Statement: There's now a Wikiproject that has been enlisted to help defend this article
  • Chairboy Counterstatement: I made no statement that any vote stacking was taking place

You ignored a "hangon" and used your admin privileges to Speedy Delete an article which another admin had just restored. This was an abuse of power and when someone pointed that out (you were not called an evil power mad dictator and homophobe, that is your self-characterization) you decided to punish the author. When you volunteered to be an admin you agreed to follow guidelines and policies. Your observation of rules and policies should not be dependant on people kissing your butt. Encouraging civility doesn’t mean using the mop and keys to punish anyone who speaks to you in a manner you don’t like.

  • Chairboy 3:why should I go out of my way...?

You went out of your way to kill the article. You’ve spent enormous energy trying to keep it dead. Don’t pretend like your current course of action was the path of least effort. And sir, I referred to you as an asshole indirectly, I didn’t say “Chairboy you are an asshole...I said “the editor who deleted this is an asshole.” You are one who keeps dredging up the fact that I was referring to you. Three Admins have already reminded me about civility, this was my first breech of it ever.  ::Get over it, Mary! - it is NOT relevant to this article’s notability. You are the one making this about editors not about articles. When you forced this article to go to Deletion Review you thus chose to have your admin practices scrutinized and now you don't like the results. If it seems many people are saying negative things against you, if a respected Wikipedian with many peer awards says you abuse your power, if you are described as an asshole by a (different) editor who has never been rude before, if you are being cast as a villain by an usually high turnout of editors, what could be the reason? Shaundakulbara 16:52, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've already addressed each of the issues you've brought up independently, please don't mischaracterize things. As such, I'll refrain from responding other than to ask that you not call me 'Choirboy'. I've taken great effort to carefully spell your name correctly as a sign of respect, please consider returning the favor. Let's try to keep this civil. I have, and as I mentioned above, I feel as if you haven't made the reciprocal effort. Regards, CHAIRBOY () 17:01, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Shaundakulbara is not currently a member of WP:LGBT. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 15:34, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I see her active on your project pages, both regarding this issue and having just presented new business. Jeffpw's endorsement of her smears against me on your project talk page is unfortunate. I hope you'll discourage this type of thing in the future, it hurts Wikipedia and, in the case of your group, draws attention away from the good work you've done. - CHAIRBOY () 16:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No, I'm not a member there. There was already a post about this issue there and I just followed the history trail. Speaking of which, as much as you want to play private eye and scrutinize what everyone says to one another on this issue on our talk pages and so on, it STILL doesn't affect the article's notability. How do you not know this? Shaundakulbara 17:02, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm counting four members of WP:LGBT who have voted here - how this could be considered vote-stacking I don't know. Also, if you were to check out our deletion sorting list, you would find that we do not deluge XfDs with keep votes, but consider every article on its own merits (and even vote against each other). To accuse us of votestacking, when there is no exhortation either way on our list or template, is the knee-jerk reaction of someone upset at their judgement being questioned. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 10:06, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • overturn The reason I'm commenting is because from the description the sources seem sufficient and the deletion patently unjustified. Perhaps others are here for the same reason, not the listing on a WProject page--a completely correct listing on an appropriate wikiproject page. This is one of the purposes these pages exist--to keep DelRev and AfD accessible by those interested in a subject, not just the relatively few full-time adjudicators. CSD A7 is for no assertion of N--if it is reasonably asserted whether explicitly or by the material, it should not be SD in the first place, but go to AfD. If someone challenges it in good faith it should certainly go to AfD. Otherwise the deleting admin is setting himself above the community. . DGG 04:57, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment The Speedy Delete template says that a "hangon" may be ignored "and the page may still be deleted if the page unquestionably meets the speedy deletion criteria." Was that the case here? No. Shaundakulbara 07:48, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and CLOSE Enough already. It's clear that this was speedied out-of-process. Wjhonson 09:03, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and list A bunch of stuff to wade through. Originally deleted via PROD in May, deleted after blanking by author in August, incorrect G4 in September, then salted, salting cleared in December, incorrect G4 on 29 Jan that was fixed by the deleting admin the next day, but the speedy deletion and {{hangon}} tags weren't removed. No real reason for not deleting is visible in the deleted history of the talk page, so the hangon tag should be disregarded. We are left with a discussion over whether the A7 deletion was reasonable. The only thing I see as a claim of notability is down in the Vicitimization section "In October 2006 it was the locus of a conspiracy to find gay men online to rob; a number of men in New York City used the site to lure another man to a remote area where he was robbed and murdered." Frankly, I don't see how this will survive an AFD that follows the guidelines, but with a very weak claim to notability it should escape WP:CSD#A7, so I think we need to overturn and list. GRBerry 00:27, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and list at AfD - Google cached reveals an article that mostly was an advertisement for adam4adam, but it did include eight footnotes, three of which were to the New York Times, New York Daily News, and Washington Blade. Speedy delete may have been too speedy of process. Comment: For those of you interested in having this article survive AfD, you may want to create a well referenced rewrite of the article now to update the article the moment it is relisted at AfD. Include an infobox (e.g., Infobox_Company) and sections such as a history section, a service section, a culture section, a criticism section, or other section for which there is Wikipedia reference material. -- Jreferee 01:28, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn (and list at AfD if you like, though I suspect it could survive that). Clearly the article ought to be recreated because it was a speed delete which was contested, if it is contested it ought to go to AfD instead. There never was an AfD thus it ought to remain in mainspace until there is one that supports its deletion. Mathmo Talk 02:02, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No, you're wrong - contested speedy deletes can still be speedy deleted by admins. Prods (proposed deletions) are stopped by contestation Bwithh 04:37, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The following statements are quoted word-for-word from Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion:

  • reasonable editors will agree what does or does not fall under a given criterion. When there is reasonable doubt whether a page does, discussion is recommended
  • Articles that have obviously non-notable subjects are still not eligible for speedy deletion unless the article "does not assert the importance or significance of its subject". If the article gives a claim that might be construed as making the subject notable, it should be taken to a wider forum.

Can this be any clearer? - Shaundakulbara 06:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How does that make my statement incorrect? I was specifically responding to Mathmo's assertion that the mere act of contesting a speedy delete tag negates the possibility of speedy deletion - that's the case for Prods, not CSD tagging. Compare Template:Hangon and Template:Prod. This seems pretty clear to me. The excerpt you select from WP:CSD does not relate directly to the point I was making (which btw, seems generally in line with what Chairboy and Ozlawyer have to say about hangon templates in the discussion on Chairboy's talk page[10]). Bwithh 07:05, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • The "hangon" tag may be ignored and the page may "still be deleted if the page unquestionably meets the speedy deletion criteria". This article does not unquestionably meet the speedy deletion criteria and hence the hang on should not have been disregarded. The guidelines I just pointed out make it clear that admins should not speedy delete unless its obvious an article has no notability, not does it even claim notability, and it is very likely no one would say otherwise. References to sources like the New York Times in connection to a murder in one city and a crime ring in another is certainly a "claim that might be construed as making the subject notable". Note the words "claim", "might" and "construed" -- the intent here is obviously to give every benefit of the doubt. The fact that the opinion here has been something like 14 to 3 in favour of "overturn" proves that, at the very least, the notability of this article is open for discussion. That means it should never have been speedy deleted. Even the admin who deleted this article said he would have restored it had he not been offended by the suggestion that he abused his privlidges. Would he have restored an article that DEFINATELY shouldn't have a place on Wikpedia? Of course not! Only an article that definately doesn't have a place should be speedy deleted. The rest go to AfD debates. Speedy delete exists to obliterate articles which are, in a word, worthless (spam, attack articles, hoaxes, vanity articles, and other badness). It is not for coherent articles with references to major newspapers and it sure isn't for articles that have 14 people saying it shouldn't have been speedy deleted. -Shaundakulbara 08:30, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As I've said in the past, mere claims to encyclopedic notability are sufficient to merit removal of a speedy delete tag. But I don't see any sign of that in the article, and apparently Chairboy and Ozlawyer didn't either. Its a matter of opinion whether mentions in news articles are encyclopedically notable or not (whether its from a news source with local or national or international focus - the NYTimes is all 3 btw and not every article it prints is automatically esteemed knowledge for the ages), but its within reasonable bounds to see such mentions as not asserting encyclopedic notability. Crime stories in newspapers are generally not encyclopedically remarkable. In addition, apparently no argument against the speedy delete was left on the talk page to accompany the hangon. So Chairboy was left with just a hangon tag. If it was felt that the speedy deletion was too hasty or out of order - that's why deletion review exists. There's no reason here for the bad faith assumptions about Chairboy's intentions or views. I'm not here to express opinions on Chairboy's behalf, but it seems clear to me from his talk page that he was ready to restore the article as a courtesy response to HouseofScandal's first assertion that he could provide a ton of evidence to show verifiable encyclopedic notability. Chairboy chose not to do this when he saw that HouseofScandal was assuming bad faith and asked HouseofScandal to make a request to another admin. This seems reasonable and does not indicate that Chairboy was tacitly admitting he was in error as you suggest. By the way, hoax and "vanity" articles are not subject to deletion by WP:CSD while this article is within the bounds of consideration under A7. Bwithh 10:29, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • FACT: If 14 people question the speedy delete versus 3 who don't, then it didn't unquestionably meet speedy delete requirements. I can forgive Chairboy or anybody for a lapse in judgement. But at this point, your position just seems absurd. Your arguments about what constitutes notability don't belong here...that’s for AfD. All that is required to avoid quick delete is a "claim that might be construed as making the subject notable". BTW...Chairboy deleted the article the same day another admin recreated it after speedy deleting it by accident. The author apparently had no time to present a case and Chairboy was effectively vetoing another admin's decision.-Shaundakulbara 10:55, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, consensus can change even for deletion review decisions, so there's not exactly a solid "fact" to be uncovered here. No, this isn't AFD, we're discussing whether Chairboy's speedy delete decision was reasonable. I've already said that just a minimal claim of encyclopedic notability is needed. I don't see it in the article and I think Chairboy made an ok call. And I don't see why whether you "forgive" my opinion or not matters. Bwithh 11:29, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn, not a legitimate speedy. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 22:43, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn. Many things are clear as crystal in this review: 1. The page in question did not meet the utilized requirement for speedy deletion (CSD A7) 2. The article has various sources and thus stands a good chance of passing a good-faith AfD listing. 3. Some of the editors who opposed the SD could have been more civil; however, 4. Chairboy's refusal to un-delete the article because he was offended by what other editors said is petulant and childish (at best) 5. His job as admin in the situation is to consider the article, not those editors he is corresponding with, and there is no excuse for using your administrative powers (or holding them over someone's head, for that matter) because you are angry with the person. (I'll also note that, while Chairboy IS a volunteer, he should remember that his peers in the Wiki community elected him to his post). 6. Chairboy's supposition that posting this DRV on the LGBT noticeboard was vote-stacking (and that is clearly the assertion he was making) is troubling for various reasons, but for me mainly because it seems he assumed that all those who are members of the project would vote overturn simply because they are LGBT or interested in LGBT issues. This shows an enormous amount of disrespect for that project, as well as the LGBT editors of Wikipedia. Please, in the future, do not reduce us to our genders or our sexualities. That is extremely offensive. 7. Events like this one show a clear need for a serious discussion regarding Speedy-Deletion and the policies therein. CaveatLectorTalk 00:49, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
If you feel my actions were in any way improper and, as you suggest, indicative of a person who should not have the admin bit, I invite you to make use of the request for comment mechanism so we can discuss this in greater depth. I make myself available for scrutiny at any point, and I'm always looking for ways to improve. Regards, CHAIRBOY () 00:53, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Image:Eur_20041214_tues3art.jpg – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 02:59, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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This image was unilaterally deleted while deletion review copyright discussion was in progress and less than 24 hours after a deletion dispute tag had just been put on the image. Nardman1 11:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse speedy deletion, image was speedily deleted as replaceable fair use. There have been no previous DRVs on this image, and the link given by the nominator is to a WP:CP discussion and not a deletion debate. --Coredesat 14:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There is no free replacement, as was contended on the fair use rationale which was added only HOURS before the image was deleted. There isn't even a bio of him on the Northern Ireland Assembly page. [11]. I've looked in vain. Nardman1 18:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion A live politician is a definite case of a replacable fair use, assuming the use was fair to begin with. First, an image could be solicited, for guidance see Wikipedia:Example requests for permission. Second, politicians appear in public or semi-public settings, generally with the schedule available from their PR staff, and a Wikipedia could take a photograph at such a time and release it into the public domain or via an adequately free license. GRBerry 20:07, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Regretful endorse deletion, you'll need to change our fair use policies before this would be allowed. However, I really don't like them in this case. -Amark moo! 02:01, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Henrietta the four-legged chicken – Speedy deletion overturned, listed at AfDtrialsanderrors 03:00, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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I wanted to add something to this article I'd read before and found it was speedy deleted. It was speedy deleted as not-notable but that doesn't meet any speedy deletion criteria. The article was well-sourced to news events and a simple Google search [12] shows 52,000 hits, a third of that of Mike the headless chicken - seems notable enough to me in the realm of mutant chickens. An article with notability and reliably sourced shouldn't be thrown away on whim. SchmuckyTheCat 08:25, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This was the information the article gave: "Henrietta is a four-legged chicken at Brendle Farms in Somerset, Pennsylvania. She was found living normally among the rest of the chickens after 18 months. She was adopted and named by the farm owners 13 year old daughter, Ashley, who refuses to sell the chicken on the Internet. Henrietta has Congenital disorder. The second (hind) legs are fully formed but non-functional." That doesn't even begin to claim any sort of notability. --Chris Griswold () 09:41, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
So it reads like a stub. It was sourced as well, correct? Does an article have to contain an intro sentence that says "Subject is notable because ..." in order to not be speedy deleted? SchmuckyTheCat 09:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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User:PopeofPeru – Discussion moot – trialsanderrors 03:02, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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I have initiated this review per the suggestion of original deleter Proto after my attempt to persuade him to reverse his decision failed. This userpage of an unbanned editor was deleted without justifiable cause as part of the reaction to the recent round of Colbert vandalism. I therefore request that the userpage be fully restored AND/OR the page be restored and the congratulatory comments be moved to the respective talk page, where they properly belong. --Hemlock Martinis 08:06, 31 January 2007 (UTC) (Note: This is my first attempt at a deletion review, so if I breach protocol in some way I would appreciate the notification. Thanks! :D)[reply]

  • I am guessing the discussion here is a rhetorical rather than a practical one; I think we're trying to hash out how this sort of thing should be handled in the future. So no, we don't force the user to have their old page back! Shaundakulbara 22:13, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Dogme ELT – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 03:03, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Dogme ELT (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|AfD)

Dogme ELT is an internet forum for teachers of English as a second language. On November 4, 2006, the Dogme ELT article was deleted as copyvio. On November 15, 2006, the article was deleted per this AfD. The article was speedy deleted on January 30, 2007 by The JPS. A reason given for the speedy deletion was speedy deletion criteria 4 - "Recreation of deleted material". Malangthon asserts that none of the speedy deletion criteria applies and now request review of the January 30, 2007 speedy deletion by The JPS. Malangthon posted a request at ArbCom. trialsanderrors took Malangthon's request posted at ArbCom, created this deletion review request on January 31, 2007, and post the following ArbCom quote from Malangthon in support of this deletion review request: "The Stub was in full compliance with Wikipedia guidelines yet it was deleted. The stub was replaced as is warranted and the preciptous action taken the first time then became the sole purpose for second deletion. This circular reasoning does not comply with Wikipedia policy. (...) Please abstain from any further deletions of the Dogme ELT stub. Take your views ot the Dogme ETL Talk page if you wish to be involved in this matter. Malangthon 00:21, 31 January 2007 (UTC)" This lead section was revised on February 4, 2007 by Jreferee to provide some clarification. -- Jreferee 19:38, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - It's my closure that's contested, so I just refer to my closing statement. ~ trialsanderrors 01:13, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, looks like the deletion that is contested is User:The JPS's speedy per WP:CSD#G4. ~ trialsanderrors 01:17, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - The prior lead paragraph to this deletion review contained the statement "Request by Malangthon (talk · contribs), who accidentally sent it to ArbCom:", which is referenced to in the below discussion. -- Jreferee 19:45, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - OK trailsanderror. if User:The JPS's speedy was not for the article that was deleted after a discussion in 2006 then yes, this is a different matter. A stub written after the article was deleted has been deleted. I have not been able to get a reason for the deletion from the User who deleted it but I know it was in compliance with Wikipedia policy. There may have been minor formatting preferences that were lacking but that is no reason to delete. There is a User Calton who is saying that it was deleted because it was simply a replacement of previously deleted material--which it is not. This is a new stub for a whole new article. I think User:BrainyBabe can confirm this as well.
Your attention to this is welcomed. Malangthon 02:32, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Re:
Arbcom's remarks
*There are still no sources.
:Incorrect. The sources are listed
*I don't quite know why you think it was acidentally sent to Arbcom. Thinking that they didn't intend to have Arbcom rule on it and punish the people who deleted it goes past my ability to assume good faith.
:Not sure what this is meant to be. I could not find the deleter and anyone who insist that navigating the massive number of pages here and getting specific directions to adress specific problems needs to rethink this. I spent quite a bit of time looking for the deleter after it had been deleted. There was a short notice on my User page. I went to the stub and it was gone. I have been preoccupied researching a vast number (more than 100 thus far) of journal articles on autism for the Wikipedia article and this was in and out before I knew it with no one trying to justify a speedy deletion. So I went through the steps and was left only with arbitration. This is a problem with speedy deleters. They drop things because they have a strong POV about stubs or articles that are in fact hardly frivolous and then off they go--but that requires an administator so that means that an administrator was hardly giving this a good look.
Dogme ELT is as article stub justified both in content and in form. I have been in applied lingustics for more than 20 years. I heard the article had been deleted, I read what I could find. Went out and emailed applied linguists worldwide to see if there was any merit in it. They had no problem understanding that there was merit. The type of organisation that Dogme ELT represents is not at all unlike 'The Inklings' for example and who here will say Tolkein and Lewis were engaged in meaningless pastimes.
Dogme ELT may or may not signal a paradigm change in the philosophy of langauge education. That is not the point. It is a legitimate forum for professional educators from which they derive a growing body of material and support for a change in education policy in an area of profound influence--the ability of people to communicate with each other.
I have absolutely no connexion with this group. I went into the forum and read extensively and I asked a great many other people who responded via email. In addition to the forum contact address, the Guardian articles and the piece by the woman from the British Council, these serve to substantiate the existence of the forum. The comment that there are no sources is absurd.
This has merit and is Wikipedia worthy. Saying otherwise is strictly POV. I have established the existence of the entity and have correctly described what it is and what it does. Malangthon 02:32, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I just found this at the Dogme ELT site. I need to know what is going on.
Dogme ELT
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:"This page was deleted from Wikipedia, either because an administrator believed a consensus was reached among editors that it is unsuitable as an encyclopedia entry, or because an administrator felt it met one or more conditions for speedy deletion. However, an appeal has been made at Wikipedia:Deletion review to restore the page. To facilitate that discussion, this page has been temporarily restored and protected with this message in place. If you would like to see the article that was deleted, please check its history. You may wish to contribute to the discussion at Deletion review following your inspection. If there seems likely to be a strong consensus to undelete and you wish to improve this article meanwhile, you may wish to make a request for the unprotection of this article on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. "
I would like access to the appeal procedure. Which link do I follow? Malangthon 02:37, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This is the appeal procedure. -Amark moo! 03:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. To suggest that User:Malangthon "accidentally" posted at WP:RfArb doesn't Assume Good Faith, it Assumes Facts Not in Evidence, given the language on the article and user talk pages such as Calton...simply makes a mockery of the assertion and displays a destructive attitude of other editors...displays willful abuse...Please desist from further vandalsim or I will make additional requests for arbitration to protect this stub from any further arbitrary acts that may be committed [13], claims that referring him to the speedy deletion criteria constitutes [m]ustering group support by trying to marginalise this editor...an abusive and meaningless, not to say, inaccurate ploy. [14], and the odd proclamation that he was making a PDF of comments that had been deleted from his Talk Page -- comments which never appeared there to begin with [15] (go ahead, check the history).
    In any case, as to the actual issue at hand: Endorse deletion. There are NO reliable sources: the ones claimed are rubbish, as I've already pointed out to User:Malangthon on the article talk page [16]: one Guardian article that doesn't even mention the group, a Guardian message board, and the BC article only tacks on mention of the group at the end. Coverage is not non-trivial, multiple, or from reliable sources. This is a textbook repost speedy deletion. --Calton | Talk 04:23, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. Appears to be just another non-notable web forum. Article contained no assertion of popularity, wide public interest, or importance. Sole citation to a WP:RS was to an story about the general subject, not the forum that is the subject of the article. --MCB 05:14, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. Web forum that doesn't even have its own domain? Give me a break. 09:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC) Unsigned comment added by JzG (talk · contribs)
REBUTTAL:
*Accidental is not nor ever was an issue. The deletion was done before I got there, I went through all the stages I could, the deletion had been done spuriously to begin with and a second deletion was being threatened and again without discussion or justification given. The last resort--since I could not find anyone to discuss it with nor anyone to take responsibility for the deletion--was simply that, the last resort. It had been done and was being threaten again. The categorisation of 'accidental' is irrelevant and moot at the same time. It is being used to detract from the issue at hand--spurious and malicious deletions.
*'Appears to be a non-notable web forum'. What it appears to be is not an issue--verify the reasons for deletion within policy guidelines. What it is, is the issue. I have many years in the business and these forums are essential in developing the philosophy and practice of a very significant part of education and learning. Having been to literally hundreds of international conferences, given papers, chaired or directed significant not-for-profit organisations, it is, in my experience, worthy of note. Opinions to the contrary--opinions drawn from 'it appears to be' are unsubstantiated. The vigour with which this 'deletion at whim' is being carried out make it clear to me that the question must be posed--what is the hidden agenda here?
Spurious and ad hoc rationale posed here--
no assertion of:
popularity and wide public interest (this is redundant),
importance (This is very POV).
Sole citation to a WP:RS was to an story about the general subject, not the forum that is the subject of the article.
Web forum that doesn't even have its own domain
These are not reasons for deletion.
*A. Popularity or wide public interest--Small articles on the ranks and duties of Roman soldiers who fought at Adrianople against the Goths or the role of the curiales in civil administration while historically significant are hardly riveting reading to the vast majority of people who can read English--ever see a poll taken on popularity in Wikipedia on this prior to deletion?
*B. Importance is entirely POV--this in itself refutes demands for deletion
*C. Sole citations (in fact neither a sole citation nor unreliable) and their focus are not the issue. The issue is that (a) it is sourced and (b) therefore its existence is verified. There are more than a few articles and stubs here with single and rather vague sources. There are in fact more than one source to the DOGME stub and the description is both accurate and verifiable so this is a fabrication.
*D. 'Fora without their own domain' is not listed as criteria for Deletion an article or stub.
Summary: The case for deletion is based on
*A. Fabrication--the inaccuracy of which is verifiable;
*B. Multiple voices--get enough people to speak out against it and that is reason enough!?—the Roman Coliseum springs to mind;
*C. Criticism that assert reasons for which the deletion is not listed as justifiable cause for deletion.
*D. Criticism that assert unfounded reasons for which the deletion is not listed as justifiable cause for deletion.
and
*E. The reasons for deletion given here above are not the original reasons for deletion--It was DELETED for REPOSTING A DELETED ARTICLE.
This is essential--the voices for deletion are literally making it up as they go along. They have no case and can not defend the original premise for deletion.
-- Malangthon 01:34, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
A. Pay attention to what is being said? User:Amarkov has not paid any attention at all. If facts are not enough--as User:Amarkov says here--then why is User:Amarkov even involved? Once again, we see that this is not about the original rationale--refuted rationale--for deletion. Staying on topic seems to be problematic for User:Amarkov.
B. Now we see the qualifier 'essentially' attached to the statement for deletion. How far do we have to go till we get to, 'sorta like' or 'looks similar to'?
C. User:Amarkov has now stated without equivocation that the reason for deletion was not the asserted reason, it is in fact a dispute over sources. Again the reasoning and the quarrel--not an objective argument--is fallacious and very POV. Malangthon 02:12, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The issue with the previous article was a lack of reliable, independent sources. Thus, any article which fails to include reliable, independent sources is a repost, regardless of if the words are different. And it doesn't matter why it was deleted, if it should not be undeleted. Which it shouldn't. -Amark moo! 02:17, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reiteration (RE: User talk:Amarkov 02:17, 1 February 2007 (UTC)). The tedium of the serial attacks and continued failure to address the rebuttal clearly shows the deletion vote is being made by those who are not concerned with the issues at hand. This is not about the merits of the stub but about repeating again and again refuted and disproven assertions--trial by fatigue. Make your case. Show that the deletion rationale was in fact justified--that rationale stated, not the ad hoc nonsense that is being served up here. When that 'undelete' takes place we can get on with the next set of issues. Malangthon 02:31, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Relevant Testimony Refuting Rationale for Deletion
This was posted on the Dogme ELT discussion page:
Author of the original article
:Just for the record, I am the author of the original Dogme ELT entry that was removed in November. The susbequent entry had nothing to do with me, was not sanctioned by me, and bore only a notional resemblance to my own article (in that it was about the same topic) but was otherwise completely different: its rapid deletion - on the grounds that it was an attempt to re-submit a previously rejected entry - seems hardly justified. ScottThornbury 13:04, 31 January 2007 (UTC)ScottThornbury
:See WP:Wikilawyering. Read WP:Wikilawyering. Come back with something resembling an actual argument. --Calton | Talk 14:08, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
:This simply demonstrates User Calton's failure to stick to the original rationale for deletion. The deletion was categorically for reposting a deleted article. The writer of the first article has stated, without equivocation, that the stub deleted was NOT, I repeat, NOT the original article. The sole reason for deletion is thereby refuted and that categorically. Malangthon 01:46, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
This is or should be, the end of it and the article left in peace. Malangthon 01:52, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Um... no. If it were undeleted on the technicality that the text is not the same, it would be promptly AfDed again, and redeleted for still having no reliable sources. Wikipedia doesn't follow process for the sake of having it followed. -Amark moo! 02:01, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
REBUTTAL
Again, another of those voting for deletion state that in fact the reason for deletion is not the real reason. It was deleted for reposting deleted text. This is very simple, undelete and leave it be.
This is process for the sake of serving the mission of Wikipedia. The assertion that this is about process for the sake of process is misdirection. We have here a glimpse into the mind of User:Amarkov and not the substance of this discussion. Malangthon 02:21, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You're ignoring me, and I don't like it. It's not going to be let alone if it's undeleted, it's going to be run through an entirely pointless AfD discussion which will reach the result that there are still no sources. -Amark moo! 02:26, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is just so clear. It is now a personal attack: it has been internalised and rendered by at least one person to a very unprofessional level. It is simply a threat of continued attempts to delete a stub which is in compliance with Wikipedia policies. Undeleted, this stub can continue to be developed over time into an article as would normally happen to a stub in compliance with Wikipedia policies. This is how articles begin and User:Amarkov has stated here that that will not be allowed to happen. Is there a clearer proof that this deletion is supported by someone that is way outside the Pale? Malangthon 02:53, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion beneath all the puffery, this is really just yet another of the thousands of unremarkable web-forum article deletions that happen all the time. In this case the forum is actually a Yahoo group with 2 messages in the past 7 days. The "accidental" ArbCom request (which was apparently sticken without even being voted upon) makes it a little bit tougher than usual to assume good faith, but otherwise it's just more of the usual. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 07:49, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
How much of this forum discussion and its significance are not limited to the site itself? The assertion marks the writer as unbelievably naive for some who professes to have an informed opinion in this matter. I have been on the web since the early 90s and these are now the norm for discussion amongst groups of professionals in almost every field. How many entries does it take before a entity like H-Net which publishes citable reviews would make it to the pages of Wikipedia? Amazing. Malangthon 04:11, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. I agree that this is a fairly simple case, complicated by the requestor's long-winded and contentious posts. The requestor needs to be civil and assume good faith.
This is the version deleted by AFD. This is the version deleted under the speedy deletion criteria for recreation of deleted material. The test there is "A substantially identical copy, by any title, of a page that was deleted via Articles for deletion or another XfD process, that clearly does not adress the reasons for deletion." There was an AFD discussion, so one piece of the criteria is met. Who the author is is not relevant to the speedy deleetion rule.
The deleted version said it was about a "loose collective of teachers" who "set up a web-based discussion list", the new version says it is about a "forum for teachers". Either way, it is the same topic that is being discussed, and trying to differentiate on this basis would be wikilawyering at its worst. So the first piece of the criteria is met.
Reading the AFD, the reason for deletion was a lack of independently published reliable sources primarily about the group. So the question is whether the new article addresses this reason for deletion. The sources offered in the new article are 1) the forum itself (obviously not independent), 2) a 2004 item in the Guardian that mentions the educational theory but not the group (so is totally useless for an article on the forum) 3) a forum at the Guardian (obviously not meeting our standards for a reliable source), and 4) the personal writings of a single teacher on a site published by the BBC and British council that does not claim any authorship or fact checking of the articles by teachers (see the about page), so it also does not meet our standards for a reliable source. There is no source that addresses the concerns of the AFD about a lack of good sources. With no good source for our notability standards (WP:WEB as a forum), this doesn't have as much chance of surviving another AFD as a naturally occurring snowball being found underground in liquid magma, so there is no reason to list it at AFD. The discovery of multiple sources that are independent and meet our standards for reliable sources would give an AFD a chance, so might lead me to change my opinion to relisting. I have no opinion on whether an article on the educational theory would be possible, but it is clear these are not the sources to support such an article. GRBerry 21:23, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: User:GRBerry, 21:23, 1 February 2007 (UTC) REBUTTAL Re: "I agree that this is a fairly simple case, complicated by the requestor's long-winded and contentious posts. The requestor needs to be civil and assume good faith.

This name calling and deprecation is civil and in good faith? Yea right. Hoist on thine own.

Re: “The test there is "A substantially identical copy, by any title, of a page that was deleted via Articles for deletion or another XfD process, that clearly does not adress the reasons for deletion." There was an AFD discussion, so one piece of the criteria is met. Who the author is is not relevant to the speedy deleetion rule.”

Point One: Substantially different –how substantial? An analogy if you will.
Act One: Someone one writes an article about a Martian who comes to earth and poses extraordinary theories in relativity and quantum mechanics —and oh by the way his name is Albert Einstein. It gets deleted;
Act Two: Next there is a legitimate article on Albert Einstein and we have about 95% of the same content and the same title and . . . oh well. This line of reasoning is stating clearly that if a topic is dealt with in a manner that is unacceptable and then deleted that the topic is forever out of bounds. You see how this could create problems. If not please recuse yourself.
Point Two:
The original article deleted in 2006 was, amongst other things, deleted because the founder of the group had written it and it was considered self-promoting. This assertion of irrelevance in the matter of authorship displays a marked lack of familiarity with the case. Since it is clearly the case that this is not self-promoting by a vested interest, this stub has now rendered an original deletion rationale moot.

“The deleted version said it was about a "loose collective of teachers" who "set up a web-based discussion list", the new version says it is about a "forum for teachers". Either way, it is the same topic that is being discussed, and trying to differentiate on this basis would be wikilawyering at its worst. So the first piece of the criteria is met.”

ONE: Make the argument. If you want to refer to policy, then do it here and not make broad sweeping strokes by referring obtusely to other Wikipedia documents on the web.
TWO: An established forum in cyberspace is now reason for deletion—where is that written in policy
THREE: A loose collection—what is that? A established forum to discuss philosophy and practice in a recognised field by professionals is a whole new level. If you see a similarity there you really have to want it.

With regard to the section beginning, "The sources offered in the new article are"

  1. Irrelevant. This is obviously crucial in actually establishing the EXISTENCE of the forum.
  2. Incorrect & Contradictory (at the same time). This establishes the interest and the significance of the topic of the stub as published in a reliable source. Important Point: This statement is a contradiction with other assertions here saying this should be deleted because it had no interest (I believe one word used was 'popularity'). The reasons given for deletion are in conflict.
  3. The Guardian does not meet the criteria for a reliable source? The vote for deletion is now saying the Guardian is what?
  4. -
  • (A) We are now eliminating all personal writing from the list of eligible sources? Where in the policy is that written? All autobigraphies are personal. How many articles here cite autobiographies? What about biographies with the endorsement of the subject? Are those citations now to be removed and their associated articles judged on 'Keep' or 'Delete' accordingly? How many noted authors are cited here from articles in the media--op ed pieces are now for the chop?
  • (B)Who do writers have to be to qualify as a source? We have a rating scale?
  • (C)British Council or, say, Oxford faculty? CNN or BBC? We are now engaged in a disparagement of well known and respected governmental agencies in the UK--this is support for deletion? The voter does not consider the British Council or the BBC to be reliable sources? How many sources here in Wikipedia are from media but WITHOUT by-lines? This well-regarded media source has published an essay WITH a by-line. This is Wikipedia policy--saying the BBC and The British Council are not legitimate fora for opinions by professionals writing about issues in their field of endeavour?

SUMMARY:

  • The arguments are not serving the purpose of the review and they are often based on vague references to other web pages here in Wikipedia--e.g. referring to an opponent's argumentation as 'Wikilawyering'. Make the argument from the source if you can--Your opponent is not required to make your argument for you, for Pete's sake. And do try and stay on topic. Little of this last posting is on topic with regard to the deletion under review.
  • If it is a question of votes, then any Republican can get his party members to join and vote to delete all reference to Clinton, any politician in Turkey could get as many of his compatriots to join Wikipedia and vote to delete all references to the Armenian massacres and any right-winger in Japan could do the same for the Nanking Massacre--hell for WWII.

Malangthon 04:11, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Relevance of Dogme ELT
An issue, evidently, for the first article, deleted in 2006, and one posted here in various versions is the significance of the topic. Once a week I do a google and a vivisimo and an alta vista search of the topic and the list grows. I post to applied linguists monthly to get an idea about what changes are taking place in the field and Dogme is noted from time to time--out of the vast number of ideas out there: It merits note by professionals in the field. Dogme ELT is now being discussed and written about in language and education sources and publications on an increasingly wider international scale and this is significant. The ELT field has a major impact worldwide. When you consider that English is not just a language but an international language that is increasingly used in commerce, government & international relations and transportation (e.g. Japanese airline pilots speak English to Pakistani traffic controllers), the importance of this field of endeavour becomes clear. As I stated before, the ELT field also accomodates a massive industry for commercial interests (e.g. major publishers and universities) which philosophies like Dogme ELT has already effected (e.g. Edlearn Consortium, a joint venture of Wash. State U. & City University-Seattle is now charging some 2,500 Euros for a business course it teaches in English in Bulgaria--that is about twice the yearly salary of an ELT teacher in Bulgaria). The topic under discussion will have a signficant effect on the associated industries since it is advocating a mover counter to the glut of materials that ELT teachers deal with. Testing, especially testing English competence, is a very large industry that Dogme ELT may impact to increasing degrees (e.g. Edlearn Consortium have 'graciously' eliminated the TOEFL requirement). The interest in Dogme ELT is definitely there and its signficance is also being marked and discussed.

On the other hand, articles about pumpkin-headed deer are hardly of global signficance nor a topic impacting billion dollar industries although I certainly welcome the reading of trivial and slightly bizzare phenomena. Even though such articles are usually the domain of "UrbanMyth.com", I have no doubt that it fits Wikipedia's mission as does Dogme ELT which is significant on many levels.

  • Sources for Dogme ELT
I have been going over the beginnings of many of these articles and note that it has been common here in Wikipedia to start small--sometimes, very small. The Autism article, for instance, was recently a Feature Article and with our efforts may soon be again. However, when it started in 2001 in December, for two weeks it was a single web link. Others then pitched in and the rest is history. The attitude conveyed here in the votes for deletion--and I think it would be instructional to analyse the voters primary work loads here on Wikipedia to reveal what their real emphasis is--is a sharp departure from the evidence of what Wikipedia is supposed to be, informative and collaborative rather than denigrating and combative. Malangthon 11:05, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Process of AFD
I note that User GRBerry states on his talk page:
"Despite some appearances to the contrary, AFD is not a vote. It is a discussion, where we try to explain why an article should or should not be deleted. Then a closing admin comes along, and decides, in light of the discussion, whether the article meets Wikipedias policies and guidelines for having an article. Usually, because most AFD contributors are basing their comments on the policies and guidelines, the close looks like it is reading the comments as a vote. But if there is an overriding policy issue raised (a demonstrated copyright violation is the classic example), then policy will be followed. One of the boldest closes that I've seen, but absolutely one that followed policy, was Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Philosophy of probability, which was closed as keep in a discussion with two keep opinions, eight delete opinions, and two userfy opinions (which are normally read as delete). "

Malangthon 11:18, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GRBerry also states: I have rescued 6 articles for deletion by improving them, some of them with significant help from other editors. The best possible outcome of an AfD discussion is an improved article. How many have you rescued?"

Malangthon 11:22, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above is an archived debate of the deletion review of the article above. Please do not modify it.
Vlada Frey – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 08:56, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The following is an archived debate of the deletion review of the article above. Please do not modify it.
Vlada Frey (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|AfD)

Why have you deleted Vlada frey? I saw many people getting in his defense on article discussion page. All you "wikipedians" had in your defense is bunch of dumb rules YOU made up. You people act like you have all the knowledge of the world and if there's someone you actually haven't heard of, then that person is not worthy of your precious wikipedia. So what if Vlada doesn't have a web page? Is the internet only thing deserving merit to you? I have read a lot of magazines and newspaper articles mentioning Vlada. But, hey, they are all Eastern European, you haven't heard of them, right? And, ofcourse, that means they are not worthy. For crying out loud, man, get a little more flexible, will you? I ask for detailed answer, as why are you people so stubborn about your rules, the article didn't stated anything bizarre, sick or offending? P.S. Since the article was in process of debate, and your "rules" state that the page in this process should remain intact for seven days, why has the page been deleted two days earlier? Shmeket (misfiled at Content review, moved by GRBerry

What magazines and newspapers? They aren't online? Why don't you get an article on the Wikipedia that is in the same language as the magazines? --Chris Griswold () 23:15, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm interested in the reasoning here. While I myself know nothing of Vlada Frey, the fact that there isn't much online in English about him might actually make for a good reason to include him. Are we so narrow as to think that people are only interested in subjects from their own language groups or cultures? So long as references are cited, whether online or not and whether in English or not, and so long as the subject himself/itself is otherwise worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, an article should surely be permitted. As an example, I am myself hugely interested in Japanese music and culture, but speak hardly a word of Japanese. English Wikipedia thus is a major source for me, and I rely on contributors who are able to draw on Japanese sources to write good articles in English. Doesn't this make sense in our global, internationalist world? --Ishel99 02:08, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
While we do suffer from recentism and CSB here (and Chris Griswold is wrong here; WP:V allows for non-English sources), that doesn't necessarily mean that someone who isn't online deserves an article if they're not mentioned in online sources. The problem is that the author mentioned "many magazines" but didn't specify which ones, so it's a lot harder to verify the articles or magazines, whether the content matches or there is even enough content to write an article from. ColourBurst 18:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. Clear consensus at AfD; closed per consensus; not too happy about the closing remark. "Jamnezdin Kurtovic-Piton" gets one ghit: the deleted article. Angus McLellan (Talk) 23:31, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion The "dumb rules [we] made up" were reached through consensus, and if you have a huge problem with them, go to another site. JuJube 02:21, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion AfD consensus was clear, and nominator's reasoning (more or less that we shouldn't bother to enforce our rules) is extremely weak. As noted above, if you have such disdain for WP's rules, try another site, there's plenty out there. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 08:42, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. Your argument is, in effect, "Instead of the dumb rules you made up, use the dumb rules I made up". It's not too late to provide valid sources, however. --UsaSatsui 22:05, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The above is an archived debate of the deletion review of the article above. Please do not modify it.
List of tall men – Restored and relisted at AfD, along with List of tall womentrialsanderrors 08:58, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The following is an archived debate of the deletion review of the article above. Please do not modify it.
List of tall men (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|AfD1|AfD2|AfD3|AfD4)

The article was deleted even though no consensus was reached. 17 users supported deletion (one of which was simply "per nom", but was not discounted) and 17 voted to keep the article (a few of the "keep" votes were discounted by the closing administrator). Now, granted that Wikipedia is not a democracy, but AfDs should be decided through consensus and not polling. 17 vs. 12 or 13 hardly seems to be a consensus.

Note: For the sake of consistency, I am also nominating List of tall women for deletion review (the result of the AfD debate was a consensus keep).

The administrator's justification for the decision is that:

The arguments to keep are very poor in comparison with those for deletion. Nobody has succesfully refuted the chief reason for deletion - that the list is subjective and there is no accepted single definition of what to be 'tall' means.

However, a number of users directly addressed and refuted the chief reason for deletion--the "subjectivity" of the term tall. See, for instance, the comment by User:The Fat Man Who Never Came Back against a "fruitless semantic exercise":

NOR applies to "new definitions of pre-existing terms;" it does not preclude the variable, reasonable interpretation of very common adjectives.

The criticism of the subjectivity of the term "tall" blurs the distinction between a criterion that is subjective and one that has alternatives. Notability could, in theory, have any number of possible (and plausible) definitions, but WP:Notability is an objective criterion. Likewise, the term tall could have varying interpretations, but it can also be an objective criterion (reached through consensus, verified by external sources, and explicitly noted at the start of the article).

At the least, the article should be restored so that it could be renamed to List of the tallest men (per the suggestion by User:Penwhale, which could list the tallest men ever, in specific countries/regions, at particular times in history, etc. (this is really a matter for that article’s talk page). Black Falcon 19:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This article has undergone an AfD three more times (as copied from the most recent AfD): Black Falcon 19:51, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment - At the risk of rehashing my comments on the AFD, I do reject Proto's notion that there being "no accepted single definition of what to be 'tall' means" is a reason for deletion. The obvious consequences of that logic are distasteful, particularly the deletion of many valuable, high-quality lists simply because they cover a group which has no definitive parameters. Christopher Parham (talk) 19:54, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. The lost was improved a lot and the reason for deletion was refuted, with 'tall' parametres set by official authorities.Halbared 18:42, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Deletion. Closing admin made sound policy and guideline based conclusion, no real basis to overturn his call on it. Despite what is said, it appears that the main reason to overturn in !vote counting more than anything. Agent 86 20:08, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment as closer - something I didn't note in the close, which perhaps I should have, is that reaching an agreed consensus on what "tall" means "through consensus, verified by external sources, and explicitly noted at the start of the article" would be just splendid. Is it therefore churlish to point out that the article had existed since October 11 2005 (over fifteen months) without managing to arrive upon an agreed consensus on what "tall" means, and no sign of it ever being attained? Proto:: 20:28, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion was primarily due to fears of the list getting too lengthy. Also it included some on the other side who wanted "their tall guy" included for whatever reason so pushed for a lower standard. That "tall" exists, and can be measured to some degree, I don't think was the point. In retrospect I wish the higher standard of 201 centimetres, the standard used at the Italian one, had been kept as this is almost certainly in the highest percentile of human height in any society. As for another issue, it is incorrect that a variable physical commonality is arbitrary or verboten for lists. There is a Category:Lists of people by physical attribute and many things in Category:Lists of people with disabilities could also apply. In addition Tall Men are a subject of scholarly study. I concede that the disdain for lists is powerful so perhaps an article on Tall men or Tallest men would be better, but because of this deletion I'm not sure such an article can be created.--T. Anthony 23:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Also note I do stand by my closing judgement - the issue wasn't no original research (although an argument could be made for an arbvitrary cutoff point being just that, it wasn't a prevailing discussion in the AFD), it was Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information - arbitrary and subjective lists are just that. Isn't that what the main thrust of the deletion arguments were about? Proto:: 20:34, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. The nominator made a very strong case, and all the people who voted delete either also made a good case, or mentioned several policies. The people who voted keep didn't have much to say, some didn't say anything at all. Iced Kola(Mmm...) 20:43, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • The majority of the keep votes were more well-reasoned than that. In addition there were several delete votes that were "delete per nom" or essentially said "it's stupid", but were not stricken. In addition we have several lists like List of buildings with 100 floors or more. Isn't "a 100 floors" also essentially arbitrary? If this had been called List of men over two metres tall would it have been more acceptable because it admits it chose an arbitrary number? Anyway back to the main point, even if you go by what wasn't stricken you had an almost equal number of keeps and deletes each with their own considered arguments. I am perplexed how this means a concensus to delete and I still fail to see how a fair reading of the discussion could lead one to think that. Most of those endorsing closure here have not given a satisfactory answer to that, I feel, and some of them voted delete at the discussion. (I am not an administrator and I have not voted, or whatever you call it, here at all. Still I voted keep there, but I would refrain here even if I could endorse/oppose) Maybe I strayed as well, but the discussion is what mattered. Did the discussion have a concensus to delete and if so can you show how. That's all.--T. Anthony 06:19, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • What value is it to mention several policies if they are inapplicable? True, those who voted delete linked to more policies, but this means nothing by itself. In addition, those voting keep linked to policies such as WP:NOR (in that the article doesn't violate it) and WP:POINT and referenced other policies in various threads or comments. Black Falcon 23:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • It is disturbing that the AFDs for the "tall women" and "tall men" discussions reached contradictory conclusions even though they were run at about the same time. Nevertheless, I can find no fault with the reasoning put forth by the closer of this discussion. I must endorse the closure and continue to struggle to accept that Wikipedia is often inconsistent. Rossami (talk) 20:44, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    The tall women one was closed early, quite possibly incorrectly as the pattern of argument was not unanimous, through WP:SNOW. That discussion could easily be repopened - is that within the aegis of this DRV discussion? Proto:: 21:02, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment by DRV nominator: I apologize for the lengthy DRV nomination and this lengthy comment, but there are two other points that I believe deserve consideration and were not explicitly mentioned in the AfD.
  1. Any relational adjective (such as tall, short, large, big, wide, deep, etc.) can be interpreted in different ways. The lower limit of such adjectives can be disputed, but this does not mean that they are hopelessly subjective. Following that logic, every list of the biggest, greatest, largest, longest, tallest, etc. should be deleted (e.g., every list noted in List of "largest" articles). The same logic applies for the opposite: smallest, shortest, cheapest, etc. Lists based on relational adjectives can be encyclopedic, even if they cannot be defined so as to be free of any controversy (to reject any cutoff point, even say 2.5 meters, approaches WP:POINT).
  2. Although I do understand the frustration of those who supported deletion that the article hasn't reached resolution so far, it seems like they are giving up on the article. The criticism of the subjectivity of relational adjectives is, as noted in the AfD, "a fruitless semantic exercise, inimical to the subjective nature of language itself". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Black Falcon (talkcontribs) 22:22, 30 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. This is just as unsalvagely biased as a List of smart men would be. We can't decide how tall someone must be to be "tall", and there is no agreed on definition, so what are we going to use? If we had a List of tallest men, that might be okay, but that isn't it. -Amark moo! 00:37, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I have no opinion on this debate, mostly because I never saw the list. But I seriously doubt "list of tall men" could be as biased as "list of smart men", for the simple reason that a person's height can be accurately and objectively measured, while their intelligence cannot. If we wanted to ensure the maintainability of the list we could choose a minimum height and make it a "list of men over 7 ft. tall" which would also meet or exceed any reasonable person's definition of "tall". In that situation it would be easy to determine who qualifies to be listed, because it's all based on raw height, rather than demographic-based comparisons. If we were dealing with intelligence rather than height, none of these statements would be indisputably true. — CharlotteWebb 02:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Yes, you're right. A better comparison would be something like List of men with high IQ. -Amark moo! 03:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • Well there's no list, but we have a Category:Members of Mensa. Going beyond IQ we have List of young people in history, List of famous people who died young, List of physically disabled politicians etc. Is "young", "dying young", or physical disability inarguably defined? Perhaps not, but absolute exactness in all things is neither necessary nor plausible. If it were we'd have to get into debates about the definition of science fiction every time there's a List of science fiction authors or editors or what not.--T. Anthony 04:22, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • Allow me to present a list of the words that would become off-limits for WP articles: tall/short, young/old, dark/light, long/short, large/small, big/small, great/small, costly/cheap, high/low, hot/cold, warm/cool, deep/shallow, unusual, and so forth. Essentially every article or statement that uses a relational adjective would need to be deleted. Such adjectives are a normal part of every-day speech and everyone has a general understanding of what they mean. Their specification is a matter of attaining WP:Consensus through discussion (supported by published sources) on article talk pages. The article has received 4 AfD nominations -- maybe some of that effort should have gone into discussing these issues on the article's talk page (I can't check to be sure (as the page is deleted now, but as I recall, none of the issues brought up in this last AfD were really even noted on the talk page). Black Falcon 05:22, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • Um... No. A consensus that something not biased does not make it unbiased. No matter how many sources you can get, it is a POV to say how tall someone "tall" is. And the word "tall" is not banned; if you are writing an article on, say, Yao Ming, you can say "He is considered tall by many people". You would probably be able to just describe him as tall, since so many sources would agree on that. The issue with a list is that a list must have a cutoff point, which will be either biased or set so high that the list is useless. And either way, it will be arbitrary, with people an inch under not being included as tall for no good reason.-Amark moo! 05:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
            • Much of what you say would still apply to young/old, etc lists. Why is dying at 39 "dying young" and dying at 40 not "dying young?" Is the nineteenth century death of Frédéric Chopin's, at 39, truly a "younger death" than say Caron Keating's? Numerically yes as he died two years younger than she, but she lived into the 21st century with modern medicine.--T. Anthony 06:34, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion per all the arguments, not to mention the article was at many times simply a vandalism target. JuJube 02:08, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. The arguments for deletion were strong, they were not suffiently answered, so the admin called it as delete. That's what's supposed to happen. So the AFD was closed correctly. I see a lot of talk above by the DRV nominator about what "tall" is supposed to mean, but remember, this is not AFD part 2. Some such discussion may be necessary, but please stick to what is relevent to the actual closing. — coelacan talk06:02, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Also, relist or delete list of tall women. I was not aware that this list was on AFD at the time, but all of the arguments that brought down list of tall men apply equally to this article, so it should be deleted for the very same reasons. It appears that this article simply received fewer votes because it was lower-profile. If relisting is the necessary route, then so be it, but I think that it's obvious that one can simply apply the same arguments in this case, so deletion would be warranted. — coelacan talk06:12, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Did someone mention my name? ... Oh yeah, BF did. Per AfD, my suggestion on this issue is thus: Rename to tallest men thereby bypassing the necessity to define the line between "tall" and "not-tall". - Penwhale | Blast the Penwhale 09:26, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion as AfD nominator. This could arguably be salvaged by making it a list of men who were known in their time and genre for being unusually tall, based on assessments by reliable secondary sources, but even that would fail the test of arbitrariness. Consensus is not a few dozen people !voting on a single AfD, consensus is the broad measure of support for policy, in this case WP:NOT. The main attempts to address subjectivity seemed to me to be in terms of changing the value of the subjective criterion for height, and that ain't going to fly. Guy (Help!) 09:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - 'Largest' and 'tall' are different superlatives ... the equivalent would be 'largest' and 'tallest'. List of tallest men would probably be ok. A simple, non-controversial cut off, such as '20 tallest men alive', '20 tallest men ever', and 5 tallest notable people in certain professions where height is noteworthy and relevant (e.g. NBA) could then be created. Proto:: 10:12, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Subjectivity and Überwikipedia - I do agree that List of tall men was inappropriate, but I think it should have been renamed (moved) to List of tallest men (or List of tallest people--merging the men and women articles) and edited to fit to its new purpose rather than deleted. Following the logic of the AfD with regard to your proposed List of tallest men, wouldn't 20 also be a "subjective" number? Or 10? Or 50? Or any other number? Essentially any list that is not naturally bound (e.g., a list of countries, a list of capital cities) would be "subjective" as any cut-off point is "arbitrary". I believe it is a useless exercise to try to impose a level of rigidity on WP that is not present in the English language itself, and that may indeed diminish the quality of the encyclopedia. -- Black Falcon 17:38, 31 January 2007 (UTC)Black Falcon 17:30, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • I believe I'm going to have to quote you later, Black Falcon, as you've said this much more concisely than I've yet managed. It really is misleading to think that we can somehow make this list objective by slightly altering the title. There's nothing "non-controversial" about 20. Someone will come along and want their favorite person on the list, and insist that "oh, 30 is simple and non-controversial too". And there would be no good argument for why they're wrong, any more than there'd be a good argument that they're right. The AFD closer noted this, correctly. — coelacan talk22:54, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • You are right. 30 is no better or worse than 20. And that is why I have suggested (repeatedly) that the specific number be left to the WP:Consensus on an article's talk page. According to your arguments, any list that is not naturally bound (e.g., a list of countries, a list of capital cities) should be deleted (including at least 2 featured lists). You demand a level of objectivity which does not exist in any human language. Black Falcon 23:18, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • Considering how strong the feelings are of people against lists I keep thinking we should just create some kind of Wiki-Almanac or separate space for them. I've suggested this several times, but nothing's ever really been discussed on it. It seems an almost random policy of selective deletion is preferred. Shrug, whatever.--T. Anthony 23:25, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • I'm sorry Black Falcon, I misread and thought you actually were agreeing with me. I didn't mean to twist your argument to my own. Putting that aside, a list of countries and a list of capital cities are both bound lists. There are a finite number of them, that can be counted by objective processes. So if a list lists all of them, then there's no subjective cutoff point for POV pushers to push around. I disagree with your suggestion that we can arrive at a number for this list by consensus. How would a consensus even begin to develop, if everyone has their own ideas about what a "good" number is, and there's no measure for who's got a better idea? For consensus to form, some people have to be able to convince at least a few others that one choice is better. If I were set on 25, who could ever make a coherent argument that I should reconsider that and go with 20 or 30? If there's no coherent argument, where is the consensus going to come from? — coelacan talk23:35, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
            • No apology necessary. The consensus will come from discussion and (hopefully) some common sense. Yes, if someone is completely set on 25, neither man nor God nor a snarling pitbull (well, maybe that one) could move them. By applying this principle, think of how much encyclopedic content will be deleted: extremes of elevation, size, length, depth, temperature, density, price, longevity, etc. If we can get consensus on religious and political articles, I believe we can get it for a list of height. Also note that I favor the existence of a "List of tallest men/women/people" rather than just plain "tall". However, according to the "subjectivity" argument, the "tallest" article would also be deleted. Black Falcon 23:50, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse correct interpretation of the debate. I stronly agree with Proto above that "tall" is much more problematic than "tallest". Eluchil404 13:34, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist both, possibly bundle with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of short men. The fact that these discussions produce different results implies more informed and structured arguments should take place at some centralized location with all the points laid out. Wikipedia may be inconsistent, but that doesn't mean we can't take a further look. It could be argued that consensus will never be reached, but that's no reason to ignore the problem altogether by deleting it. The main closing reason - the subjectivity concerning the adjective - is convincing because it's an ideal, but it asks for way too much. It's ideal to be as non-discriminatory as possible, but that's simply impossible. No one denies that the cut-off point would be arbitary the same way Wikipedia arbitarily exists. But even if the cut-off point fluctuates from time to time, at least we would have an encyclopaedic article about the world's tallest men, a topic of genuine interest. Practically, the cut-off point isn't a big deal; what is of main interest is who appears at the top of the list, not the bottom. I agree that "tall" should be "tallest", because that is what the article did list. "Tallest" would clarify the scope to refute the point that the list neglects people who, although not the tallest of all time, were considered tall in their specific era. If you feel they should be included, great, but that was not what the article set out to do, until the people working on the article were pressured to put the basketball players into their own section. Even if other articles are not supposed to be brought into question here, the consequence should seriously be considered: that a lot of other lists with adjectives fall under the same scrutiny - they are just not debated as much to the point of AfDs. Pomte 02:08, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • The fact that these discussions gave different results implies only that list of tall men gets more traffic and so got more attention in AFD. Systemic gendered bias? Perhaps. Coincidence? Perhaps. Neither prevents list of tall women from going back on AFD and getting sufficient attention this time, when it's not competing with list of tall men. Other such articles should be AFD'd as well; I've no disagreement there. Practically, the cutoff point has been a huge deal, the subject of constant, and I mean constant, daily, even hourly, edit warring. The article can never be salvagable because everybody wants their own interpretation of "tall" to be enforced, and this is perfectly reasonable for everyone to edit war over because the cutoff point is arbitrary. There was never a compromise or consensus settled upon, and that's why AFD happened over and over, and when it became apparent that no consensus would ever form, that's why the last AFD finally came down as close. It's encyclopedia information, sure. Include that information in the articles of the people themselves. They should have their heights in their articles. Thus no information need be lost. — coelacan talk20:39, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • It seems pretty ridiculous for someone to look for "tallest people" only to find that the list has been deleted due to debates concerning the bottom of the list. So the topic itself is not fundamentally flawed, but the article got deleted just because of certain Wikipedians' attitude? Then the argument that the list is arbitrary is only secondary to the fact that people have taken advantage of said arbitrariness. If arbitrariness were the real core issue, then why haven't the delete proponents pushed other such lists for AfD in order to be consistent and to benefit Wikipedia as a whole? It wouldn't be making a WP:POINT because the argument is supposedly strong. Pomte 23:32, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • The arguments to keep did not answer the arguments to delete. So consensus was there, even if several people said "keep!", they did not provide sufficient counterargument. — coelacan talk20:39, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restore history The arguments that this is not notable or subjective are facetious. We already have world's records in all sorts of things. Perhaps there are too many entries here, but that can be addressed by undue weight. There is no need to delete the entire entry. Wjhonson 09:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Given that the closing admin's reason for deletion was essentially that criticism of the article is not addressed, it is perfectly acceptable to discuss the merit of such criticisms. Black Falcon 02:32, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I would have voted for deletion, but the closing admin seems to have acted improperly as there was no consensus. I would suggest that this admin should lose his or her deletion privileges. Pinoakcourt 20:44, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That might be a tad drastic. I agree there was no concensus to delete at the discussion and this is the main reason I requested this be placed here. However if it was an honest mistake or misinterpretation I don't think Proto needs to lose privileges. A warning of "don't do it again" should suffice, unless this becomes some kind of pattern.--T. Anthony 03:12, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There's no need for even a warning. Consensus was followed. Just because some people show up and yell "keep!" doesn't mean they are providing arguments, so their !votes don't count. There were strong arguments for deletion. Those arguments were not sufficiently answered. How much clearer can it get? — coelacan talk20:39, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think many of us disagree that concensus was followed. You seem to be saying that concensus happens when keep voters fail to outargue the deleters thoroughly enough. I don't think that's what it means at all as this would make "delete" the default position. There was a great deal of valid arguments and counterarguments with neither side predominating really. This means "no concensus" as far as I know. That you dismissed or disliked keep arguments is your prerogative, but it doesn't create a concensus. (And yes I said I'm done with you, but this is as much for others as your benefit).--T. Anthony 02:28, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Coelacan, please refrain from such derogatory comments that portray a significant number of users as nothing more than whiny, hysterical people who do nothing but repeat the same exclamation without providing rational arguments. You do not have a monopoly on the truth! Black Falcon 02:44, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • overturn and consider the two articles together Though WP may be inconsistent, it shouldn't be making opposite formal decisions on two almost identical cases on the same day. This is the sort of thing appeal procedures are for, and the only fair thing is to do it over. DGG 05:20, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • That is your opinion. If you're so confident that the consensus is delete, why not restore this article and relist both together (as should have probably been done in the first place)? Black Falcon 02:32, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • If the reason behind the deletion was inappropriate or unjustified by WP policy/guidelines/convention, then that means the discussion was inappropriately closed. "AfD part 2" is irrelevant here. Black Falcon 20:59, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The admin closed it as delete instead of no consensus because he felt the list fundamentally violated policy. The list doesn't fundamentally violate policy through excessive subjectivity, as the subject has obviously been studied extensively, and some form of the list would be valid. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 22:17, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Proto cites, above, WP:NOT#INDISCRIMINATE. If "tall" is subjective, then the list is inherently indiscriminate. That's a policy it violates, in addition to WP:NOR regarding what "tall" is supposed to be, which I argued in the AFD. Also, from Proto's AFD closing rationale: "The arguments to keep are very poor in comparison with those for deletion. Nobody has succesfully refuted the chief reason for deletion"; that's WP:CONSENSUS. There were a number of !votes for keep, but they didn't answer the problems raised, problems founded in NOT and NOR and since AFD is not a vote, the arguments are what decide it. — coelacan talk22:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
List of tall men does not directly fall under any classes of articles listed under WP:NOT#INDISCRIMINATE, and the bottom of the list being subjective does not mean the list as a whole is indiscriminate. Pomte 23:32, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The admin closed the debate because, according to him, the arguments for delete were not addressed by other editors. To disagree with that claim is to disagree with the closing admin's interpretation of "consensus" and is therefore very relevant here. Black Falcon 02:32, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The above is an archived debate of the deletion review of the article above. Please do not modify it.
Text of the GNU Free Documentation License – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 09:06, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The following is an archived debate of the deletion review of the article above. Please do not modify it.
Text of the GNU Free Documentation License (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|RfD)

The arguments for and against this redirect were laid out in the RfD discussion. Those arguments boil down to an assertion that this redirect meets criterion 4 of the "avoid deleting such redirects" section of Wikipedia:Redirect#When should we delete a redirect? Reviewing the discussion, I do not see any reasonable way that the discussion can be interpreted as having had consensus for deletion.
The closer added the comment that "Per Google, there are no links outside of Wikipedia to this redirect" and appears to have given it considerable weight in the decision. Had this comment been added during the discussion period, I would strongly have disputed it. Google is fundamentally unable to make such an assertion about inbound links. Google does not return hits based on the hidden html of a page. But even if you could run such a search, it would still miss any links that are 1) archived offline, 2) on academic or other pages excluded from spidering or 3) on internal websites which Google can't index. Rossami (talk) 18:36, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse as closing admin. This redirect meets criteria 5 of the deletion reasons of the page Rossami references. The objection that Rossami raised during the debate was the risk of breaking existing links. Despite Rossami's statement above, Google is able to detect links in the HTML of a page and has a specified search operator (see link: help) for that purpose. The link is not used outside of Wikipedia and RockMFR fixed all the Wikipedia links. I weighed the objections that Rossami raised and decided the risk was extremely low and did not overcome the standard practice of deleting cross-namespace redirects. If we are to accept Rossami's argument about the risk of archived, offline, non-spidered, & internal website links, then no redirect could ever be deleted. We will never be able to prove that a bookmark to a page does not exist. We can, however, extrapolate that if there are no public links, then the odds of significant private links are extremely, extremely small. Furthermore, I stand by "The text is original source material and, per WP:NOT, doesn't belong in article space or masquerading as an article." -- JLaTondre 20:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I misspoke above. I should have said that "Google does not reliably return hits based on the hidden html of a page." While it is theoretically feasible to search for a link, that is a highly fallible process. For example, I just attempted to use google to find links to several sites which I know to be linked from pages which I know to have been indexed. (Targets containing link: [17], [18]. Search: [19]) Google is returning no hits even though I am looking at the source code in another window and can see the link right there. I am unconvinced that this aspect of the google test is sufficiently reliable to conclude that there are no inbound links. Rossami (talk) 21:01, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks like http://www.queenrightcolonies.com is a page without any content. I'm not sure that represents a valid example as it's possible Google may discard it. I'm willing to concede, though, that any Google search (text, link, or otherwise) is not going to be perfect. I do believe, however, that a lack of results gives a pretty good indication of somethings relative use. -- JLaTondre 22:38, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • Odd... That's a small business site that worked recently. I wonder if he knows that his server is down. Regardless, here's another test, this time from a Wikipedia page. (Google cache of our Beekeeping page demonstrating that the page was indexed [20], Google search for the first in the list of external links [21], Search for the second link (59 hits but not the Wikipedia article) [22]). Finding things via the google link-search can be evidence. Not finding things is, unfortunately, not reliable evidence. Rossami (talk) 13:57, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. The link was a cross space redirect to Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License. We do not allow cross space redirects for very good reasons. If we have this as a redirect, it is (as JLaTondre states) masquerading as an article. Such a text dump is not an encyclopaedic article. A link from GNU Free Documentation License might be appropriate. Proto:: 21:14, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment The established procedure for cross-namespace redirects is to find an appropriate target within article space and add a {{selfref}}. ~ trialsanderrors 09:06, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Wikilobbying – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 09:11, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The following is an archived debate of the deletion review of the article above. Please do not modify it.
Wikilobbying (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|AfD)

Wikilobbying is a practice which has been known to occur, and while the word may be relatively unknown, it is at least debatable whether it is deserving of its own entry. To summarily delete it as it was without allowing any time for discussion seems very arbitrary. At the very least, it should've been allowed some time for discussion before being deleted. TV4Fun 07:45, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Overturn Wikilobbying is clearly a real practice that impacts the integrity of this encyclopedia. All the endorse votes below that talk about this not being a real phenomenon yet just underscore the need for an article about it-- so they can look it up. The fact that the page hasn't yet had real content to this effect has been made irrelevant since nobody can create real content due to the protection. Furthermore, I'd encourage everyone here to stop sounding so sanctimonious about being administrators on wikipedia and get a sense of humor. nwesfd 03:34, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment Actually there is a place for you to edit: User:TV4Fun/Wikilobbying. You can improve the article, make it a good article, add sources and when it is deemed worthy it could be moved to the mainspace. There's nothing stopping you. The mainspace though has to abide to the rules and this article fails WP:N, WP:NEO, WP:RS, and WP:CRYSTAL. And to defend us "sanctimonious" people, I see that none of the overturners have cited any policy and most are new users likely unfamiliar with these policies. Gdo01
      • Comment This is a stretch. The cited TV4Fun page clearly satisfies WP:RS and WP:CRYSTAL; The sources listed are reliable and most certainly not speculation. The guidelines for avoiding WP:NEO ("Determining which meaning is the true meaning is original research...") do not apply since the phenomenon has been laid out in pretty unambiguous terms. Lastly, the claim of WP:N is redundant given that it cites WP:NEO as a guideline; Furthermore, it is clear there is something notable here, as evidenced by the vigorousness of this debate. I appreciate you pointing me to these guidelines, but find it condescending to dismiss my comment based on my account's date of registration. nwesfd 04:58, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion truthyjunk. JuJube 09:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn This may have come from Colbert and I understand that he isn't a great friend of Wikipedia and that administrators have likely been very busy tonight because of him and will likely be very busy in the next few days because of him. But Wikilobbying is a real practice, from notable individuals brushing up their own articles to Microsoft paying people to make them look better. It's a remarkably unusual type of information lobbying because people who look up information get it from Wikipedia--even if it was Joe Shmoe pushing position x for company y who wrote the informaiton that they're getting. Colbert may have caused a stir with naming this, but the practice exists and needs an article and Colbert has little to do with it, though he does a fair amount of Wikilobbying himself. TStein 10:15, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse. The contents were, successively, "here it is.", "first.", "Save the elephants!" and "Save the elephants! YEA!". Of course it was correct to delete these articles. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 11:07, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse — Neologism. --Chris Griswold () 11:22, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse — Let's wait until this actually makes news like truthiness did. Not everything Colbert says is magic. Wikiality never became popular and had hardly any media presence. This word may follow the same path to oblivion. If this does become popular, there can always be another deletion review. Gdo01 12:49, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse - per WP:NEO dposse 13:03, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse valid deletions under criteria G1-3. If someone wants to create an actual article in their userspace, we can discuss unsalting so that it can be deleted as non-notable and unverifiable at AfD, but since we're discussing the deleted article not the neologism itself, that's not necessary yet. Eluchil404 13:22, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong endorse deletion per previous endorsement arguments. Absolutely no evidence this "word" is notable, and just because Stephen Colbert says it's a word does not make it so. --Coredesat 13:44, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse I personally feel that it should be included on the Show's page, unless there are enough examples and discussion to warrant a full, fleshed-out page, and not just another stub. However, the term should not be ignored. Perhaps something like "On the 29 January 2007 show, Colbert invented the term Wikilobbying which he defined as 'The act of paying people to edit Wikipedia in order to be more favorable for their cause'." That kind of thing.須藤 14:32, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse, as per user:Gdo01. -- Zanimum 16:39, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. Non-notable neologism not made any more notable by Colbert's antics. No evidence of use of the word elsewhere, or that the practice is widespread. WJBscribe 17:01, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted for now. At this point this is patent nonsense at worst, unverifiable original research at best. If and when there's a substantial body of verifiable secondary literature (beyond the Blog Of The Day), this issue can be revisited. --MarkSweep (call me collect) 17:26, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse User:Suto and User:Gdo01 have the right idea; mention it on the show's article, recreate if this ever makes national headlines. Veinor (talk to me) 17:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Endorse. This was closed correctly. Besides, Stephen Colbert makes up words almost every week at this point. With the exception of truthiness, they've all proved non-notable outside of the very narrow context of the Report. Even if Wikipedia was a crystal ball, (which it isn't) precident would not be on this article's side. -- Bailey(talk) 19:28, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn Whether we like it or not, this is now a legitimate term. It should be closely monitored; but it must be allowed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.143.138.213 (talk) 19:40, 30 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]
  • Overturn I believe this is a real term and should not be deleted, I don't see how creating a page for a real term is vandalism. If anything, lock the page to new and anonymous users.Preeeemo 19:43, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse per WJD. --Gwern (contribs) 19:52 30 January 2007 (GMT)
  • Overturn and protect. This term, although edited by childish individuals, deserves its wiki page as mush as any other page here. Rsween7 User has no edits outside of this discussion. AecisBrievenbus 22:34, 30 January 2007 (UTC) [reply]
  • Endorse deletion, process was followed appropriately, given that the topic is just a neologism. No valid reason for overturning was given by the nominator nor by the four Overturn !votes so far. Being "a real term", "a legitimate term" is no claim to belonging in Wikipedia. At most, these are arguments for inclusion in Wiktionary; and multiple independent reliable sources would be needed for the Wiktionary editors to consider it. No new sources have been suggested beyond those considered in the AfD. Barno 20:10, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, and a big welcome to Wikipedia! for all those who wish to see this kept. Proto:: 20:31, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse speedy-deletion. As Jitse Niesen points out, there have been no substantive versions of this page. The deleted versions were all clear vandalism or user tests. {{Deletedpage}} protection seems a bit premature but based on the definitions offered above I believe that if the page were created in good faith, it would fail an AFD discussion as a neologism. Rossami (talk) 21:17, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Obvious endorse. The article never contained any content about Wikilobbying, so nothing about Wikilobbying was deleted. The article only ever contained nonsense, and nonsense can obviously be speedied. AecisBrievenbus 21:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn protection. While it is true that in the few seconds before the page was protected, no one had yet put up any actual content, that does not mean that given a chance, other editors would not have put up a meaningful definition. Granted, the page may have warranted speedy deletion, but protecting it from being recreated seems rather unfair. In so doing you have prevented any debate on the topic by ensuring no one could put up any content which might at least warrant some discussion before deleting it. TV4Fun 21:51, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • That's always the case with protection. I see no reason why this particular article is any different from all the other protected articles. You are free to write an article in your userspace, at User:TV4Fun/Wikilobbying, and come back here when you feel that it's good enough to be in an article. Until then there's no reason to unprotect this article. AecisBrievenbus 21:55, 30 January 2007 (UTC) PS. I have struck your bolded !vote, since your nom already counts as a vote. AecisBrievenbus 21:55, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • overturn the protection of the page It's the truth. Wikilobbying is now and will continue to be a widely used and legitimate term. This is the true nature of language; words are created, and words are forgotten and lost. Languages evolve and die, dialects come from out of nowhere. Language is constantly in a state of flux and is constantly updated as Wikipedia should be, considering how many people access and use it, and how much it deals with terminology among other things. Overturning the protection of this page would be giving people a chance to explore and define a new term that has significant meaning. Nothing will be hurt by this, it's just provision of information. Igtgtfgtgmc 22:22, 30 January 2007 (UTC) User has very few edits outside of this discussion. AecisBrievenbus 22:31, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thanks for the beautiful prose. A small note: nothing comes out of nowhere, not even dialects. But on-topic again: if you are confident that a worthwhile article can be written about the subject, you are free to do so in your userspace and come back here when you're confident that it is encyclopedic. AecisBrievenbus 22:31, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Come on, you know what I meant. Yeah, I'll work on it, but one of the points in the beautiful prose was that people need to contribute to the meaning of the term, thus the whole point and beauty of using an open source tool in the first place. That's the whole reason why people are fighting for this, that's the whole reason why people want to use Wikipedia, that's the whole reason why people come here and don't just use Encarta. Igtgtfgtgmc 22:57, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • That's not the point. Wikipedia is not where things go to become notable, and as I said, Stephen Colbert using this word in his show does not make it a word, nor does it make the word appear in a dictionary (which Wikipedia also is not). --Coredesat 22:59, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question for "Overturners": What this discussion any different from this one? --Chris Griswold () 23:13, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, protologism. -- Vary | Talk 23:17, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • overturn Yes, I'd say this discussion is different, this term carries quite a bit of significance and should really be considered. I agree with Igtgtfgtgmc 100%, great argument and every point is valid. Wikipedia says it's open source, but it's more like some parents taking a bunch of kids to a park and not letting them leave the sandbox. Js8669 00:35, 31 January 2007 (UTC) User's first contribution. AecisBrievenbus 00:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Wikipedia's content is totally free: you can reprint it anywhere you'd like, whether it's modified or intact, without paying a royalty. You can even sell it if you want to. This is not the same as saying anyone can do anything they want on this particular website, which does in fact have rules, despite offering users a relatively large degree of freedom. See the difference? To the new users involved in this discussion, I recommend checking out What Wikipedia is Not, which will get you caught up pretty quickly on what Wikipedia aims to cover and what's outside of our scope. If you want a place to define terms which have not yet caught on, you can try Uncyclopedia, Urbandictionary, or even the Colbert-themed Wikiality.com. -- Bailey(talk) 01:33, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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chris thompson(business) – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 09:12, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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this is a bio relating to the company cmtd. this article is an essential part of that other page Ccthompson

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Flashes Before Your Eyes – unsalted by protecting admin and new content written. Further actions at editorial descretion. – GRBerry 00:58, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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This page was deleted and locked because no verifiable info was available - that info has now become available so the article may be created: http://www.abcmedianet.com/pressrel/dispDNR.html?id=012907_17. -- Wikipedical 02:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • I don't know if there's a valid speedy in the bunch, especially since the first was for "crystal ball." --badlydrawnjeff talk 02:55, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and list. I'd like to think this has no chance of passing an AfD, even with that dinky little source, but we have far too many people who are willing to keep one sentence stubs because there will be more sources later. -Amark moo! 05:49, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy Unsalt but not Overturn' - point of deletion and protection is to hold the article (which had been repeatedly deleted) until article is verifiable per the policy;no need for the beauraucracy of a deletion review once information has come to light. Article has been unprotected and is ready for creation --Robdurbar 08:30, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'd agree with that, requiring a review for an article that was deleted (justifiably) because it was about a future event with no verifiable info seems unnecessarily bureaucratic. The reason for deletion has gone away, should be a no brainer. --Milo H Minderbinder 13:24, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn, allow creation. Don't immediately send it to AFD with a mindless 'procedural nomination'. Give the creators some chance to create the article, and then its existence can be assessed (through AFD, if necessary). A quick look at newly available sources suggests that it would survive an AFD discussion now, as long as the article uses the available references. Proto:: 21:21, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • (edit conflict) The first speedy-deletion (on 31 Dec 06) was in error. Crystal-ballery is not a speedy-deletion criterion. The second speedy (15 Jan) was also in error. The "re-post" criterion may not be used when the only prior deletions were speedy or prod. I see that a stub has now been created in place of the {{deletedpage}} notice. The stub does still appear to fall afoul of WP:NOT. List to AFD. Rossami (talk) 21:26, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Order of Nine Angles – Deletion overturned, relsited at AfDtrialsanderrors 09:14, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Overturn please? The vote count was in favour of keep (4-2 with 1 other person commenting), and the AfD was started by a sockpuppet. Notability is not an issue as there are several third-party references to ONA, and the article itself had references at the bottom of the article (check the Wayback Machine) - although the article was, perhaps, not very thoroughly referenced. This sockpuppet seems to have been used to delete a few articles similar to the ONA article, perhaps for religious reasons.

72.12.133.163 00:00, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry. I mean, please overturn the deletion. Or, undelete article, reinstate article, etc.; sorry, I'm new to this process. The point is, it was a vote to keep, but the article got deleted anyway.72.12.133.163 00:15, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Caution over sources The first two books listed in the google books search above are self-published/vanity press works: [http:// www.lulu.com/content/115883] (Lulu.com) [http: //www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=1533] (Xlibris). The third book is from a reputable publisher, but only has a couple of passing mentions of the group. Checking other books listed too. Bwithh 01:00, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Recommend overturnrelist overturn and stubify If the deleted version was like the Answers mirrored version, it would seem to be a gross violation of WP:OR and WP:SOAPBOX (adding a bibliography at the end of an article is often a misleading and flimsy figleaf for a mass of unsourced content). However, there seem to be at least some ok sources available. If the decision is overturned and article is kept, recommend stubification in order to purge the OR/SOAPBOX material and the reliance on an unreliable website (Yes, a book from "Thormynd Press" by Anton Long is referenced to support the website - but a google for "Thormynd Press" suggests that it is a small underground publisher dedicated to texts promoting Satanism and Neo-Nazism which are not generally available to the public e.g.[23][http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php/essential-guide-young-aryans-72738.html?s=66bc58e836a7b61463b7fd76d1d86058&t=72738][24]. The reliability of this source and Anton Long is questionable at best). Bwithh 01:08, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thanks for your attention. The answers.com page is indeed a mirror of the ONA article that was here, and I'm amazed it was that long. Please note, the vote was 4-2 against deletion, and the instigating comment was from a sockpuppet, yet the article was deleted. That's my point in all this. As for WP:OR and WP:SOAPBOX, I have only glossed over the content right now, but the old article does actually summarize some points from the ONA writings - but also, yes, has large sections worthy of snippage. To me, that would suggest editing was required and not deletion via sockpuppet. Maybe 25% of the original article was good. 72.12.133.163 01:27, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist, debate about whether or not sources are good should occur at AfD, not here. It really should have been relisted in the first place instead of closed. -Amark moo! 05:51, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment Agree about relisting (changing vote). Disagree strongly about discussion about source quality evaluation not taking place at DRV - yes DRV is primarily about process (and introduction of new sources which should be evaluated too), but considering sources already introduced is an integral but often undervalued part of the process. Not considering sources here suggests decisions or endorsed should be overturned on the basis of "look, the article has so many in-line references (but don't look at them)", "there are a bunch of google hits (but don't look at them)", "there's a nicely typed bibliography (but don't look at the books listed)" etc. Arguments about encyclopedic notability and interpretation of guidelines, I agree, should be left to afd. Whether afds under review considered sources reasonably and whether sources are substantive and reliable is a valid topic for discussion here. Bwithh 15:57, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
On third thought, going back to my original !vote Bwithh 00:12, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That's a lot of thought for one little article.72.12.133.163 12:35, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Relisting as per Amarkov. Mathmo Talk 13:39, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not objecting to a relist Nomination was about a vote count, which is irrelevant. Additionally, this the AFD discussion was severly affected by accounts with few edits, so it is tough to gauge consensus of established editors that understand our policies and guidelines from the dicussion. Admins are authorized to discount the opinions of new editors, and are expected to follow guidelines and policy as illustrated by the discussion, so this is an endorsable close. But with more established users here opining relist than opining at all in the original AFD, I won't object to relisting. GRBerry 01:05, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Squared Circle Wrestling 2CW – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 08:13, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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This page was deleted for a legitamate Pro Wrestling Company that provided a history and ability to find out the current historical information of wrestling in the Central New York Region. The suggestion that only one person contributed context is false. People seeking this information no longer have a place to go. Rock345 22:48, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(Maintenance note: - I fixed the spelling in the header and the above links; the article listed here was a redirect to Squared Circle Wrestling, for which I've linked the AFD above.) Tony Fox (arf!) 23:19, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion - no new information presented to indicate there's any notability as compared to the article that was discussed at the AFD. Year-old small feds don't seem to have much in the way of notability, and the arguments in the AFD didn't hinge on providing notability, but instead suggested those !voting to delete were the competition. Tony Fox (arf!) 23:19, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion - Unsourced articles don't annoy me. People who assume and claim delete voters (that have explained their arguments in Wikipedia policy and guidelines, no less) hate the subject of an AfD drive me insane. NeoChaosX (talk, walk) 23:35, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. Yes they do, it's called the Square Circled Wrestling website. Don't have one? It's simple to create, and there are many free webhosts. Wikipedia is not one of them. ColourBurst 23:42, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. If people who want the information no longer have a place to go, it's unverifiable original research. -Amark moo! 02:28, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So you're telling me that having the NWA/TNA Championship defended twice in a federation makes it not noteable. In fact, that's what I was going on their to update. If you're going to let other originizations in the area run wiki sites with less information just becasue they are a year older that's fine. Just letting you know I disagree with it. Rock345

Which organizations might those be? If they don't have verifiable non-trivial reliable sources we might certainly consider those for deletion as well. Existing articles don't guarantee immediate inclusion of other articles. Tony Fox (arf!) 16:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Mind showing some coverage of these title defenses in a published, reputable source? NeoChaosX (talk, walk) 23:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Stepanavan Youth Center – Restored by closing admin – trialsanderrors 08:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The AFD (here) was improperly closed. The sources to satisfy WP:N were provided. The closer noted this but deleted anyway, saying "the same can be said of a large number of youth centers". That may be true, but we do have over 1,600,000 articles. It's not like we're going to be overwhelmed by a couple hundred youth center articles (even assuming anyone actually bothers to write all those articles that might potentially pass WP:ORG). The fact is that WP:N was fulfilled, and there is no reason to selectively enforce the notability policy just because of the type of organization. Specifically, WP:ORG states, "Organizations whose activities are local in scope are usually not notable unless verifiable information from reliable third party sources can be found." And those reliable third party sources were provided, both in the article and in the AFD. So the fact that this might let other youth centers in means very little; notability was clear, and selective enforcement is detrimental to Wikipedia. — coelacan talk20:13, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Comparison of BitTorrent sites – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 08:13, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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This page was AfD'd in september, under the grounds that it was little more than a web directory, and not much of a comparison. I userfied a version of it before its deletion and worked on it for several months, until I had grown satisfied that the arguments made at the AfD were no longer valid. I then recreated the page, leaving a message on the talk page about why I had chosen to recreate it.

This page was speedily deleted by Proto a few days later, with the summary "CSD G4 - Receaation [sic] of deleted content". As I stated above, it is correct that the article had been deleted before - however, the old version was substantially different from the new version (diff) to not qualify under CSD G4. I contacted proto informing him about his error, and asked him to either recreate it or, if he thought that that was not possible, to userfy it so I could have a backup version (I naturally didn't want to lose several months' work). He chose to userfy it. I contacted him again, a week ago, reminding him that it didn't qualify under G4, and asked him again to restore it to the mainspace. He still hasn't answered, so I chose to take it here, to DRV.

As you've now probably gathered by now, I think that this page should be recreated because the new version is an actual comparison, as opposed to a web directory, that it is sourced, and that it is substantially different from the original deleted version to not satisfy CSD G4. Even though it's a weaker argument, I'd also like to point out the high traffic it used to get, and the messages asking why it was deleted (1, 2, 3). Ultra-Loser [ T ] [ C ] 07:37, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • These comments are asking for you restore it on another site outside of Wikipedia. I think that's a good idea. Proto:: 12:18, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • What relaible sources is this comparitive table built on? How many articles on torrent clients do we have? There isa fair bit of precedent for excluding form such comparisons those for which we do not have articles, else they rapidly pass the spam event horizon. Guy (Help!) 10:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. I was going to conjecture that the addition of two extra columns would not change the AfD participants' minds, but then I saw that I don't need to conjecture. Ultra-Loser said in the AfD "New columns have been proposed, which will make it more encyclopedic." to which TheFarix replied "Neither of the proposed columns will make the article encyclopedic, nor are they particularly useful." No-one contradicted him. The AfD still applies in full and this was a valid General-4 deletion. --Sam Blanning(talk) 10:35, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • The columns proposed were different from the columns that are there now - I don't remember the exact two, but I remember that google pagerank was one of them (I later decided that alexa ranks would be more useful). Plus, there are more than two extra columns - scroll down to the private trackers section, for example.
      Also, I forgot to mention that at one point there was a criteria for inclusion to stop the article from turning it into a spamhole, but proto removed it. Ultra-Loser [ T ] [ C ] 11:25, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse (my) deletion, G4 applied. It also remains an annotated list of external links, so could have just as easily been deleted for other reasons. Proto:: 12:18, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and AfD. I'm not sure about the G4 at all, honestly. Looks like a lot of new material to make it pretty different from what was originally there. --badlydrawnjeff talk 12:48, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • It's not an identical unsourced list of weblinks with no internal links, but it is a very similar unsourced list of weblinks with no internal links. Fails WP:NOT a link farm, and also fails the same criteria which got it deleted last time. Of course we could waste some more time, or we could simply accept that lists of weblinks with subjective and unsourced additional data are not encyclopaedic. Guy (Help!) 15:28, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Seeing as WP:NOT isn't a speedy criteria, and "similar" isn't "substantially identical," and discussion is rarely a "waste"... --badlydrawnjeff talk 15:34, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • That would be relevant if there weren't an AfD. There is. G4 is a speedy deletion criterion, and the mian part of G4 is failing to fix the things that led to deletion. Thise things are not fixed, and the deletion debate specifically indicates that cosmetic changes will not fix those problems. Guy (Help!) 15:37, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • G4 has nothing to do with fixing things that lead to deletion, but only the recreation of a substantially identical version of something previously AfD'd. I have no clue where you came up with that. --badlydrawnjeff talk 16:02, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
            • Jeff, we deleted a list of weblinks with no secondary sources. This is a list of the same weblinks still without secondary sources and based on the original content userfied. That's a G4, in my book. Waste of time AfDing again, since the last AfD specifically said these changes would not sort ther fundamental problem. Guy (Help!) 16:37, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
              • Your book needs some fixing, then. Check the diff, there's a major content difference between the two. They are not substantially identical. --badlydrawnjeff talk 16:43, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
                • So you say. Me, I don't see the point in allowing the re-creation of an article which will immediately be AfDed and, because the previous AfD already addressed the issues "fixed" here, deleted for failing exactly the same policies as it failed before. It's a quirk of mine. Guy (Help!) 22:14, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
                  • Whether you see the point is not relevant. G4 doesn't allow speedy deletion of a previously deleted article simply because it'll be deleted again. The language is very clear and direct for a reason. --badlydrawnjeff talk 22:31, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
                    • The common sense application of General-4 is clearly to articles that were validly deleted where the same reason for deletion still applies. Interpreting 'substantially different' any other way means that reversing the order of the list from Z to A, or grabbing a thesaurus and replacing all possible words with different words while keeping entirely the same content, merits wasting editors' time with another AfD. Do you plan on giving any argument as to why this article was not suitable before, but is now?
                      "Check the diff" indeed. General-4 is not about "if you diff the new and old version and more than 15% of the words are in red, the article needs another AfD". --Sam Blanning(talk) 12:51, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • It's not a very similar unsourced list of weblinks with no internal links - it's a sourced, highly expanded comparison of websites, complete with internal links. The arguments made at the AfD were to the effect that it was a simple repository of weblinks, and now it's not a simple repository of weblinks. Therefore the AfD no longer applies, and neither does G4. Ultra-Loser [ T ] [ C ] 16:14, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Deletion, a lot of BT sites host files that are licensed in the US, thus creating a copyright problem. Let someone else have this list. - Penwhale | Blast the Penwhale 17:39, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment: that has nothing to do with anything. There is no copyright problem. There is no potential for a copyright problem. Go try to AFD The Pirate Bay and you'll see what I mean. There is substantial media coverage on most of the large bittorrent sites. That is not a legal problem for the media, and it's not a problem for us. (Just a clarification. No vote from me.) — coelacan talk20:26, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Deletion per Sam Blanning. The original article as AfD'd and the recreated one are identical in substance. Angus McLellan (Talk) 19:32, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Deletion per Guy. It's a reposting with the same problems, and running the AFD again for the same result for the same reasons is processwanking at its finest. --Calton | Talk 04:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • overturn and relist The new site appears different, gives different information, and gives quantitative information. I do not see how the old discussion is applicable. It would furthermore seem the obvious course to do this discussion as an AfD---at least by the criteria of common sense. It will be much more straightforward to discuss the new site simply as a site, without the minutia of whether it was not validly reconstructed, or validly deleted by speedy, or which rule applied. WP:LAWYER is only an essay, and was in fact written to stem unfair tricks to keep an article, but it makes just as much sense the other way round. DGG 05:49, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse, valid G4. >Radiant< 16:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse speedy-redeletion. I've compared the latest version with the version as it stood during the AFD discussion. I am not finding the kind of substantive changes which would indicate that the concerns raised in the AFD discussion have been successfully addressed. Rossami (talk) 23:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse speedy deletion. The point of G4 is to prevent people from recreating the article in a form that does not solve the problems raised in the AFD. If the new article has the same problems as the one that was AFDed, it doesn't really much matter if it's identical, "substantially similar", or just similar; Wikipedia isn't a bureaucracy, after all. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 10:11, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restore, as per badlydrawnjeff "The "common sense application" of G4 is to read it as written. Period. I'm not going to re-run the AfD here, the G4 was improper and DRV is allegedly about process". (once it has been recreated then those who oppose can slap an AfD tag on it and get it deleted, this however is not the place to run through a new AfD on a new article). Mathmo Talk 01:36, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and relist. The point of G4 is to make it easy to delete things where it is obvious that the concerns were not addressed. It is not at all obvious that the concerns were not addressed. -Amark moo! 01:38, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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T.H.E. Fox – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 08:16, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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T.H.E. Fox (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|AfD)
For the purpose of review, I have made a copy of the comic strips under debate. It will be removed after the conclusion of this debate. The comics have been altered from their original file format, but other than that they should be undisturbed, including the non-extension portion of the file name that dates them. GreenReaper 05:12, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't normally come to deletion review, but I'm surprised at this one as there was no consensus to delete. Five votes for keep, two (or possibly three) for delete. One previous vote had been converted to keep on the basis of arguments establishing the comic's notability (namely, that it appears to be the first comic distributed online, dating to 1986 and onwards). WP:WEB is an inappropriate metric to apply to content that appeared several years before the web itself existed, and being the first "webcomic" that we know of in the world seems a clear claim to notability. In response to the closing administrator's comment, I disagree that an interview conducted with the author by the Commodore Roundtable group does not count as a source. Indeed, I would have thought them rather well-placed to determine the comic's provenance and to challenge any inaccuracies. Moreover, several facts from the interview were independently verifiable, as noted in the AfD discussion. GreenReaper 03:17, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • I too am surprised, albeit for the opposite reason: While I have my work ruminated here almost daily, I had thought this a totally un-controversial deletion. Primary sources (like interviews with the author) are only applicable where not self-serving; this is a firmly established practice. In the absence of any other supporting sources, deletion was the only tenable outcome. I suppose that I could have used the woeful caveat "without prejudice to a properly sourced article being written." However, to my knowledge there is never such a prejudice, so I didn't. Use the caveat, I mean.
    brenneman 03:51, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I fail to see how "stating the truth" comes out as "self-serving". As far as I can see none of the claims made by the author regarding such things as the number of comics made, the time and places in which they were distributed or even the future distribution of the comic are unreasonable. In many cases they are backed up by other sources, such as the newgroup post covering the relatively minor matter of the print publication. There is actually an archive of the strips, uploaded by another person, as mentioned by him in the interview. It contains the strips described by the author, as well as almost two hundred others. Exactly how much more evidence do you need that this comic existed and that it took place at the time described? GreenReaper 04:36, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Except that's not the assertion. The specific assertion is that it was the very first comic published on the internet. Providing a date for the comic doesn't actually prove it was the first (and any attempt to infer it was the first by taking other comics into account would be original research), and that means the only fallback is the author's own statement. ColourBurst 04:48, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • Then change the statement in the article. But let's use common sense here: If we have a comic for which we have no reasonable doubt that, say, it was posted in 1987 - a full year after he claims, but it's a year I have several dated files from - and we have no record of any other comics until Where The Buffalo Roam in 1992, then maybe, just maybe, it's worth keeping around on the theory that it is quite likely to be the first online comic - and certainly the first that we've found any sources for? Five years margin is a long time. GreenReaper 04:57, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I disagree, the sourcing for this article may be dubious but this deletion is even more so. The original deletion proposition was for a "lack of notability" which has been clearly disproved. Yes, this article requires better sourcing... can this article be resourced and improved while deleted, no. -- DeVandalizer 04:04, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Wikipedia:Deletion_review#Content_review - brenneman 04:12, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • It is my view that although further sources are, as always, desirable, an extensive interview with the author that contains several points that are verifiable through other sources is sufficient to establish a basis for the article, particularly given that the only "special" claim is the age of the comic. Nobody else who took part in the interview disagreed with his statements regarding this age, and as fellow users who had followed the comic, they would be the ones who would be in the best position to know. GreenReaper 04:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Userfy Some of GreenReaper's claims are overblown, so it should not go back into article space without sorcing from independent reliable sources. I recommend ignoring the userfied version and applying the Wikipedia:Amnesia test. If that comes out as a complete article, then merge in the userfied content. If not, go back to the drawing board and look for more sources. GRBerry 05:17, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Exactly what claims are in doubt here? I don't see how there is any reasonable doubt that the comic was published on the dates mentioned in the interview. Several of the images which have been preserved in the archive actually have the dates imprinted into them, quite aside from the filenames. That may not mean that it is the first comic distributed online - as someone said, it's perfectly possible that someone used the ARPAnet to send out something - but it does mean that it is the first one that we have a record of - and that, in my view, makes it notable enough for a main namespace article. I'm not entirely sure what sources you expect me to be able to find, given the surprising lack of official online-comic monitoring bodies in 1986 . . . or why you're discounting the words of the author when there's no indication that they're lying and several statements that can be independently verified as true. GreenReaper 05:44, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Joseph Ekaitis would be a more viable target for this information. - brenneman 05:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • I don't understand - if you don't believe his word about his works as a source, why would you believe it when it's on an article about him? (which doesn't exist, and rightly so, because he in general does not yet appear to be a notable person - he just happened to do this single notable thing) GreenReaper 05:57, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • My apologies to you, I should have said "some of" (now added) and said what in my first opining. The "several years before the web" bit stuck in my craw the most. The web was up and running by 1991 (and I'd created my first two web pages that year also - ah the joys of handcoding html, and the days before http: was the default prefix for browsers). And it isn't a webcomic until it is primarily published on the web. Online comic in 86/87, yes. Webcomic, no. The other is making the claim to first on the basis that we don't know of anything contemporaneous - that claim is canonical original research, and we can't use it - either in the article or to evaluate notability. GRBerry 06:25, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • That's why I put "webcomic" in quotes. Would online comic suit you better? :-) The point is that being online several years before the web is the very bit that makes it notable, and I feel that failing to consider that as notable does violate common sense. Wikipedians make notability decisions all the time, and they are based on the facts and sources available (because otherwise new facts could not change notability decisions). Notability criteria are our criteria, not determined by an external body. Here, the facts and sources available show that this comic was published in the mid-1980s and the next one that we know of was published in the 1990s. Do you have reasonable doubt that this is the case? If not, then why is it not a factor for notability? GreenReaper 14:52, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Brenneman's closure, which reflects the widespread consensus that we can't have an article if no sources exist. Userfy? May be a bad idea - if there is no chance of it becoming encyclopaedic in the near future due to lack of sources, userfying may violate WP:NOT a free web host. Of course we should provide the content for use off Wikipedia if licensing at both ends permits. Guy (Help!) 10:32, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Unless we can verify the reliability of the Commodore roundtable interview, it's not really an acceptable source. And then its still unclear how pioneering this comic strip was. Also, I'm concerned that in his own book bio[25] for essentially a kid's furry book Joe Ekaitis thinks its worthwhile to mention his stint as a local college radio "personality", his appearance as a 6 foot giant singing raccoon on The Gong Show, the occupations of his Mom and Dad, his local church choir role, plus the earnest overstatement/hope "With the publication of Collinsfort Village, he joins the ranks of American storytellers, a fellowship that includes such notables as L. Frank Baum, E. B. White, and Frank Stockton. He looks forward to the day when his writing and storytelling will stand beside theirs." - but doesn't mention T.H.E. F.O.X. at all (I assume it wasn't an "adult-orientated" furry comic?). Stronger references are needed to bring this article back. Bwithh 21:30, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Okay, so the first few random T.H.E. F.O.X. pics I looked at seemed to a bit suggestive but after further research, I give T.H.E.F.O.X. a "PG" rating. Bwithh 21:36, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Yeah, it's not a mature comic. There's some jokes that adults might get an extra laugh out of, but most of the comedy is wordplay, species-related or classic comic violence. GreenReaper 18:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • overthrow and restore Coming at this as an outsider to this material who is in the terribly embarrassing position of never having seen this comic until right now, the evidence of a dated file is conclusive unless fraud is asserted. We therefore know the date this appeared. Saying the obvious is not OR. Saying that a comic that appeared before the web is earlier than any web comic is obvious. First is hard to prove for anything. Someone may always find an earlier--the online world at that time is not adequately archived, & there is no telling what someone might find in a backup tape. But this would appear to be a subject of wide interest, and it appears reasonable that if --given all this discussion--nothing can be produced, that it was the first, and the files itself are the RS for V. That the first such files would be N is equally obvious, or we wouldn't all be discussing it. Using the wording of various practices to deny N and V when they may not quite apply to this situation is quibbling. DGG 06:02, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • You're suggesting that sources should be "assumed true unless proven false" but the burden of proof is on the creator of article content as per WP:V - not on the doubters. I don't understand how a dated computer file can be considered "conclusive" evidence. Bwithh 16:04, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Dated computer files which actually have the date stamped into the artwork, and which is in an archive that is not controlled by the original author? Many of which were distributed in a Commodore C64-specific format? Without anything that specifically cast doubt upon the claims about dates of publication made in the interview, I would consider that a reasonable level of evidence. GreenReaper 18:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse in the absense of third-party support for the claim. There is a fundamental difference between someone comparing the dates of this comic with other online comics and concluding that it "appears to be the first" and Wikipedia editors comparing the dates of this comic with other online comics and concluding that it "appears to be the first". That is novel synthesis and the essence of WP:OR. Serpent's Choice 07:54, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • So don't put the claim in the article. But to say that we shouldn't consider it as a reason to have the article seems . . . well, very silly to me, and to others. This isn't some kook saying "hey, maybe we can make nuclear fission by cracking rocks together." It's a comic that still appears to be discussed by Commodore user groups years later. Given that online services for the Commodore were well-established and mostly active prior to the formation of the web, it is not unreasonable to claim that a comic made using a C64 for the amusement of other Commodore users was published during that time. GreenReaper 18:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • overthrow and restore also. This deletion is another example of wikipedia being pointlessly pedantic at the expense of people who come here for information. Some editors won't believe it's raining unless they can find a weatherman to say so.
    Sys Hax 05:32, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure without prejudice to a properly sourced article being written. The requirements that our articles and their claims be verifiable is a non-negotiable requirement for the project. Rossami (talk) 23:14, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overthrow and Restore also. There was only one other delete vote other than the nominator, and even that one merely came in at the very end before closure and just said "per nom". While there were numerous keeps and even one person who got convinced to change from keep after intially voting delete. Maybe the discussion should have been allowed to run a little longer to get more support for deletion, if it was worthy of deletion it would have got it. Then again it didn't get even close to enough support from a purely percentages point of view for deletion, and to leave it open longer to try and get deletion could be viewed as trying to influence the outcome. Anyway... getting away from my main point in that is should not have been deleted, thus must be restored. Mathmo Talk 01:47, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Dave Wills (wrestling) – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 08:18, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Dave Wills (wrestling) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|AfD)

On the AFD discussion of the page, there was no clear consensus of how editors felt about the article and not enough editors participating to make any consensus. 4 editors wanted to delete the article (2 of which are questionable/non-prolific editors), and 5 wanted to keep it. One of the editors found a link to a message board about the deletion of the article. Despite valid reasons given on both sides, it was deleted early under WP:SNOW. There was no barrage of keep/delete votes, and the editors did not give enough time to others to find reliable sources (although the article did list some) and just deleted it. Booshakla 02:44, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment from deleting admin: None of the "keep"ers provided anything that would qualify under the "non-trivial reliable secondary sources" clause of WP:BIO. I "snowballed" the debate ahead of schedule because things were getting out of control. Looking back, citing WP:IAR might have been a better choice. On an additional note, the forum that was mentioned has had a history of disruptive activity on wikipedia. However, I'll happily endorse the undelete if some kind of non-trivial reliable secondary sources turn up. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 04:44, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Next time, think about semi-protecting, with a note directing new Wikipedians to the talk page and inviting established Wikipedians to copy legit arguments to the AFD page. Sometimes this works. GRBerry 05:08, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds like a grand idea, I'll try it next time. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 05:31, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak endorse deletion. early close of the AFD is troubling. Among the established editors, deletion was clearly considered correct. If he meets WP:BIO, where are the independently published reliable sources that are about this guy? They aren't in the article, they aren't in the AFD, and they aren't here. GRBerry 05:08, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I don't have a lot of time, and I haven't had a chance to look for sources yet, but I am fairly sure that some can be found. And it can be confirmed that his clip was used on Jimmy Kimmel Live, for sure. But with the 4 that voted to deleted the article, one was a vandal account (and was blocked for removing comments on the AFD), one was a single purpose account with around 100-200 edits, two others were established, but didn't real give any real reasons to why it should be deleted, just made jokes. That is not convincing to me. And I am also an experienced editor and I voted to keep the article and gave valid reasoning. I hope that this can be overturned or reconsidered. Booshakla 05:56, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion with keep arguments of the quality of ""dave wills" wrestling gets 1,800 ghits. The clip is one of the most famous clips on the internet" - 1,800 Googles is tiny and way way below the hits that really popular videos get. Star Wars Kid gets over 400,000, for example. 1,800 ghits is less that I get and I am not notable at all. Guy (Help!) 10:34, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong overturn as an out of process closure, and trout-slap closing admin for doing so. Perhaps if the AfD ran the full five days, the independently published reliable sources could have been found. --badlydrawnjeff talk 15:38, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Closing articles early has precedence. The article was created by a forum who has had a history of vandalism on wikipedia and the AFD was getting out of control by the same people. Badlydrawnjeff, I'm highly disappointed about your insulting and incivil additude here. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 18:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There are tons of articles here about people with "15 minutes of fame", that's a pretty sharp comment to make. And also, for some more sources, look for some wrestling shows that he's been involved with as a ring announcer. He's done this on a lot of major shows and I'm sure they could be found, since he is a popular wrestling draw in the mid-south, and is probably more notable than most of the independent wrestlers featured on this site, that have got no national TV time, where Dave has. Booshakla 18:19, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Clock Crew – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 08:18, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Clock Crew (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|AfD)

They are an active community (www.clockcrew.cc). See Talk:Clock Crew for more on why this article should be back on Wikipedia. The last admin to change the article is on break. Lurcho 00:11, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Bay Ridge Christian College – 2007 revisions userfiedGRBerry 19:33, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Bay Ridge Christian College (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (AfD)

I would request a review of the deletion of the above article. While the college does not currently hold accreditation they have applied. Several pages link to the college to include Church of God (Anderson), Warner Pacific College, and Association of Christian College Athletics. Additionally, I am currently researching the colleges move from Mississippi to Texas as a result of threats from the KKK. This would give the college notoriety from the U.S. Civil Rights Movement perspective.
Absolon S. Kent 22:58, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse deletion, having applied for accreditation means nothing; anyone can do that. Now... what? You say you're a liutenant commander in the Navy. Since when did research of naval officers make things notable? For that matter, if you were a scholar, I'd still say the same thing, because that sounds a lot like this is a new thing you're trying to research. -Amark moo! 05:45, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • recreate later I am a little startled at the apparent ad hominim nature of the earlier comment--I assume it wasn't meant that way. The background of the person making the proposal is irrelevant (except in cases of banned users, fraud, &c). Sounding like OR isn't being OR. "Researching" in this context is probably a name for "finding the RSs that say X" -- and that's what we all do. But in this instance, where the new material isnt there yet, and it seems it would show N, the equitable way to go is for ASK to recreate the article when he has the material. DGG 06:08, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I didn't intend it to be ad hominem; I don't care who is making the request. The issue is that a naval officer researching something in no way makes it notable. I didn't get the impression that he was saying "I'm finding sources for it". -Amark moo! 06:14, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion also. Wikipedia is not a billboard for every fake wannabe pseudo-something. And the above poster's comment is not ad hominm; the original poster used a stream of irrelevant non-information as evidence of why his make-believe school should be taken seriously by an encyclopedia.
    Sys Hax 05:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Deletion, but then again I'm kina feeling what DGG is saying. I'd advice Absolon S. Kent to create the page in his userspace and improve it there. Then come back with an article that you can show us would probably survive another AfD. Mathmo Talk 01:39, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion and recommend continuing in user space. Want a userfied copy? Article doesn't have independent sources, so the only change I see relevant to the AFD discussion is that the college's website is live now. Given that the head of the school has changed since the AFD, there might well be new sources findable, but recreation should start from the sources. GRBerry 18:31, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the review/discussion. Much of my original research into the college ("finding the RSs that say X") was contained in the article. Is there anyway to retire the information without starting from scratch to build the page in my user space? On the personnel comment note: I'm a little disappointed in the response tone in what I considered a legitimate request for review. I in no way wanted to present myself as a research expert, but instead was simply stating that I was looking for additional sources on the college. Bay Ridge Christian College is a small institution with limited funding and an interesting history to African-Americans and members of the Church of God (Anderson) movement. I was not attempting to do any free advertising for the college, but was instead trying to provide information on a top which is what I thought Wikipedia was all about.
Absolon S. Kent 19:24, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Bill Madden – New article moved into mainspace as requested – trialsanderrors 22:19, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Bill Madden (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|AfD)

see comments below please ww 22:06, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am new to Wikipedia. On January 9, my very first and relatively new article, Bill Madden, was nominated for deletion for failing WP:V and WP:MUSIC. I noted in my Keep vote that I would modify the article so that it would prima facie and on its face assert the relevant points in WP:MUSIC specifically, points 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10 in the criteria for musicians and ensembles and point 1 in the criteria for composers and lyricists, and fully substantiate as defined in WP:V. Between January 11 and January 15, I re-wrote my article to address these points. Unfortunately, on January 16, my article was deleted.

I acknowledge that my article as originally posted was poorly written and in "bad shape". However, I believe that it warranted at least a {{cleanup}} or {{disputed}} tag initially rather than a nomination for delete.

As a newbie, I clearly understood the invitation from Wikipedia to be bold and also understood that, although my writing may not be up to par with experienced Wikipedians, that the community would assume good faith in my writing (see Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers).

I'm writing to ask that you please reconsider the deletion and consider my undeletion request for the following reasons:

  • My initial writing style failed to meet experienced Wikipedian standards and was misunderstood and for that I apologize; however, it has since been modified to meet the noted standards and expectations. I respectfully call your attention to Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers which states that "behavior that appears malicious to experienced Wikipedians is more likely due to ignorance of our expectations and rules."
  • Although the consensus as to the number of delete per nom votes won, I respectfully call your attention to Wikipedia:Consensus, Consensus vs. supermajority wherein it states "Wikipedia is not a majoritarian democracy, so simple vote-counting should never be the key part of the interpretation of a debate." Additionally, it also states that "When supermajority voting is used, it should be seen as a process of 'testing' for consensus, rather than reaching consensus. ... If there is strong disagreement with the outcome from the Wikipedia community, it is clear that consensus has not been reached. Nevertheless, some mediators of often-used Wikipedia-space processes have placed importance on the proportion of concurring editors reaching a particular level. This issue is controversial, and there is no consensus about having numerical guidelines. That said, the numbers mentioned as being sufficient to reach supermajority vary from about 60% to over 80% depending upon the decision, with the more critical processes tending to have higher thresholds."
  • Finally, I again respectfully call your attention to Wikipedia:Consensus, Reasonable consensus-building which states that "stubborn insistence on a position," with refusal to consider my additions, revisions, and viewpoints in good faith, "is not justified under Wikipedia's consensus practice."

For all of the above noted reasons, I kindly request that you consider my undeletion request and reinstate the most recent version of the Bill Madden article which can be found at the moment at User:Windwall/Bill_Madden. Please note that this version is different than the one that was discussed earlier (before deletion) as this version contains all of the recommended changes.

Thank you, Windwall 22:07, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Potter Puppet Pals – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 00:21, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Both Potter Puppet Pals and its creator, Lemon Demon, have been covered by the Boston Globe, establishing notoriety. The least that should happen is a merge of Potter Puppet Pals into Neil Cicierega. JNighthawk 19:31, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse deletion. Knowledge of that article was present in the debate, so you have no new evidence, and no reason why closure was bad. You can put more information into the creator's article whenever you please. -Amark moo! 19:34, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion Valid AFD, with awareness of the article from near the beginning. The AFD reveals that that article is already in use in Mr. Cicierega's article, just make more use of it there, without putting undue weight on anything. GRBerry 04:30, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. The Globe article is an excellent source for the Neil Cicierega article, but it only mentions PPP in passing, and thus can't be used to source information about it. I think a redirect to Neil Cicierega is reasonable though. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 08:47, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Talk:Long Island Electric Railway – Article created, talk page restored – trialsanderrors 00:25, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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This had a template like the one on Talk:New York and Long Island Traction Company, telling admins "please don't delete this talk page as it contains information relating to the creation of a new article", and it had similar information that I compiled. NE2 18:39, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here are the notes. is this what you were looking for?
  • They had to purchase the Jamaica and Far Rockaway Turnpike to run to Far Rockaway. (details of this and other obstacles in 7/10/1896 page 8)
  • July 24, 1896: opened Crescent Street (surface) to Jamaica (7/23/1896 page 4)
  • April 25, 1897: incline to BMT Fulton Street Line at Crescent Street (transfer) completed; open to Jamaica (4/26/1897 page 1)
  • May 2, 1897: Jamaica (at 168th Street) to Queens Village opened; not yet connected over BHRR (5/4/1897 page 1)
  • night of May 15, 1897: temporary switch installed at 160th Street and Jamaica Avenue (Brooklyn Heights Railroad Jamaica Line); through route open from city line to Queens Village and open south from Jamaica to "Dooley's, near Three Mile Creek and Jamaica Bay and to Springfield [Gardens]" (5/17/1897 page 4)
  • June 6, 1897: opened to Far Rockaway (6/7/1897 page 4)
  • November 1897: switching from 105th Avenue and 148th Street to South Road and Waltham Street (I don't fully understand this) (11/19/1897 page 5)
  • December 1897: allowed to use Brooklyn Heights Railroad on Jamaica Avenue between 160th Street and 168th Street (12/11/1897 page 4; also 4/11/1897 page 31 for agreement with the BHRR)
  • July 1899: plans to consolidate LIE with proposed Cross Country Railroad (Flushing to Jamaica) and New York and North Shore Railroad (under construction Flushing to Jamaica) (7/25/1899 page 6)
  • early November 1899: New York and North Shore Railroad open, Flushing to Highland Avenue and 164th Street, Jamaica (10/26/1899 page 7)
You might want to start the new article in userspace to keep it from being redeleted. ~ trialsanderrors 21:54, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That's what I was looking for, but it should be on the talk page to be of use to other editors who may wish to write the article. The template on top was processed just like the one on Talk:New York and Long Island Traction Company, including the line "Admins: Please don't delete this talk page as it contains information relating to the creation of a new article." --NE2 22:31, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
WP:CSD#G8 is unambiguous about this. Also, your purpose is better served if you start in userspace and advertise your project at the proper Wikiproject. ~ trialsanderrors 22:57, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Then why does Template:TWP have that text (added by Slambo, an admin), if it's not going to be heeded by other admins? --NE2 01:18, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
What text? ~ trialsanderrors 01:45, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The text that appeared on this talk page, and that appears on other talk pages like Talk:New York and Long Island Traction Company. There is a parserfunction in the template that checks whether the article exists, and if it doesn't it displays "Admins: Please don't delete this talk page as it contains information relating to the creation of a new article." --NE2 03:41, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, now I get it. That clearly has to go, it's against policy → WP:CSD#G8. I'll let Slambo know. I also looked around and didn't see it on any other project templates. ~ trialsanderrors 04:59, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Couldn't we apply ignore all rules here? The notes clearly help the encyclopedia. --NE2 00:07, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No we're not helping the encyclopedia. Userspace or WikiProjectspace is the right place to prepare articles. ~ trialsanderrors 09:45, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
How is making notes on the talk page for others to start from not helping the encyclopedia? You assume that I will be the one to write the article. --NE2 14:47, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Because speedy deleting is a pretty shitty job as it is, and you're not helping the admins by posting stuff where it doesn't belong then come here to try and get it back. Post it on project space, see if you get collaborators, when you're done move it in article space. It's extremely simple and common sense. ~ trialsanderrors 04:41, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Sorry for missing the request on the template. Usually when I'm deleting orphan talk pages, there are about 20 of them in a row. I do think it would be better to work on a draft article in userspace than on an orphan talk page, as Trialsanderrors suggested above. NawlinWiki 22:51, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Hasbara Fellowships – Copyvio version replaced with new article – trialsanderrors 06:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Out-of-process deletion John Nagle 18:31, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This article was deleted without an AfD or proper use of a copyvio template by "20:48, 9 January 2007 RadioKirk (Talk | contribs) deleted "Hasbara Fellowships" (fails WP:N, WP:COPY)". This left several articles with redlinks. The article had been previously edited by multiple editors over a period of time, and had settled on a brief article with a cited quote of the organization's position statement in the introduction. A copy of the article can be seen here on answers.com, since the Wikipedia copy is now inaccessible until restored. --John Nagle 18:31, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The "cited quote of the organization's position statement in the introduction" was virtually the article in its entirety; hence the copyright violation, satisfying WP:CSD criterion G12. In addition, the article did not assert its subject's notability and/or provide independent verification thereof, satisfying criterion A7. RadioKirk (u|t|c) 19:23, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Meantime, the red links are my fault, and I'm following through now. RadioKirk (u|t|c) 19:34, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy endorse deletion. It's absurd to say "It wasn't tagged as a copyvio, so it can't be deleted as one!" Copyright violation is not just against policy, it is against the law. We can't restore a copyvio. -Amark moo! 19:27, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restore - it's claimed to be a copyvio by one editor. That's debatable. The article had a six line quote, properly cited. It's too bad that an out-of-process deletion hides the history. We got into this situation through edits which deleted material other than direct quotes. This is very unusual; the usual copyvio situation involves a new article, but that wasn't the case here. If we can get the history back, it should be straightforward to fix the article. It may just need a reversion to an earlier version. Also, please don't remove the redlinks to the article while this is pending. Thanks. --John Nagle 20:59, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Restored relevant red links to keep the record straight. --John Nagle 21:10, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The red links were supposed to have been removed upon deletion anyway, and the edit summary "rvv" (here's one of six) is usually an abbreviation of "revert vandalism", which is clearly inaccurate (if not provocative). Meantime, and I reiterate, almost the entire article was the verbatim quote from the website, which is indisputably a copyright violation, end of story. Instead of wasting so much effort in requesting reinstatement of data that cannot be, why aren't you starting a properly sourced (per WP:V), non-violative (per WP:COPY) article that asserts notability? RadioKirk (u|t|c) 21:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: G12 requires "There is no non-infringing content in the page history worth saving." This doesn't seem to be the case, even if the quote is removed. Could this be clarified, please? Additionally, I assume G12 articles may be safely recreated provided they have no infringing material? —Ashley Y 21:53, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
With the quote out, the article is an 11-word intro (including the name), two "See also"s and an external link. As to your second point, this is why John Nagle and its other editors need to stop "wasting so much effort in requesting reinstatement of data that cannot be [and start] a properly sourced (per WP:V), non-violative (per WP:COPY) article that asserts notability". It was deleted, not salted. RadioKirk (u|t|c) 22:04, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
OK, did the move. That seems to settle this issue to the satisfaction of all parties, so we can probably close out this deletion review as moot. Thanks, everyone. --John Nagle 06:32, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion The copyvio content was in all prior versions, so they have to stay deleted. The only other factoids in the history were later removed as original research. There is nothing that can be restored. There is more in the userspace version that was in the stub, just use it. (For clarity, a G12 deletion has no precedent value for later article creations. In fact, speedy deletions in general aren't precedent setting if a new version that solves the problem is created. Only deletion discussions (AFDs) are precedent setting, and then only for articles that are substantially similar or inferior - ie, if deleted as non-notable, bringing part of the text back as a stub is inferior.) GRBerry 04:37, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'll leave it for other editors to decide whether they want to send this to AfD. ~ trialsanderrors 06:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Princess Charming – Deleted version replaced by sourced article – trialsanderrors 05:44, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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A newspaper article indicated that the pilot episode of the show will be aired this Monday.[26] and another user created a much better article on its talk page. -Danngarcia 09:37, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Mywebber.com – Deletion endorsed – Coredesat 04:08, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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the web site has been release and is a real company — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mywebber (talkcontribs)

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Score (magazine) – Pre-December 23, 2006 revisions restored and relisted at AfD. – Daniel.Bryant 09:27, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Deleted and protected from recreation, apparently without going through the AFD process. This is a major magazine with wide distribution in the United States, and while the article that was deleted consisted of only one line of text, it is expandable. As an admin, I have restored the page, however it appears other steps need to be take to remove the protection, which is why I'm going through this step. 23skidoo 17:25, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Undelete older revisions and list at AFD. The older revisions qualified as valid stubs, and although no sources were cited, it did indicate some notability, so it doesn't qualify for speedy deletion under WP:CSD#A7 (which is it what it was deleted under), WP:CSD#A1, or even WP:CSD#G11. Send it through AFD so voters there may discuss it's notability. Iced Kola(Mmm...) 00:10, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Undelete and AFD, I suppose. I don't think it'll pass an AfD, but I wouldn't say it has [WP:SNOW|zero] chance, and calling it a speedy is a stretch. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 08:44, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Undelete and AFD, my feelings are pretty much exactly what Andrew Lenahan just said. Don't restore it to the last version though, that is a pathetic substub. Instead the somewhat earlier version linked to in this deletion review that at least has a little bit more info. Mathmo Talk 03:53, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Podróże z i pod prąd and Wszystko jedno – restored by deleting admin and merged to group by another Wikipedian. – GRBerry 01:36, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Studio albums by a notable band (Happysad) speedy deleted by Proto on the grounds of insufficient notability. Notability criteria guideline for music says that the general consensus on notability of albums is that if the musician or ensemble that made them is considered notable, then their albums have sufficient notability to have individual articles on Wikipedia. Jogers (talk) 12:59, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Blood Krupters – Deletion endorsed – Coredesat 18:28, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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I think that this page should not be deleted as it is a history of a gang and nothing is bad about it! Please undelete it! I will be very thankfull! Sapp Krupter 12:33, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Janet Balaskas – Deletion overturned, relisted at AfDtrialsanderrors 21:30, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Administrator appeared to overlook the extensive evidence that she is a notable author and speaker on natural childbirth, particlarly provided by the latter comments on the AFD. She coined the phrase "Active Birth" A Google Search shows some 71,000 uses of the term. She has published six books. I can't see that this fails our notability requirements! Maustrauser 12:28, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse deletion. It doesn't matter if she's notable. You still must have multiple reliable (and independent) sources, which you did not. If you have any reliable sources, please show us them. -Amark moo! 15:16, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - the AFD certainly showed a bunch of multiple and independent sources. She has published six books with DIFFERENT publshers (big publishers too - not vanity publishers). Isn't the test you applying much tighter than applies to bands, musicians, and cartoon characters that populate WP? The vast majority of these that have no reliable and independent sources other than a fansite and/or a publisher? It appears you are saying she might be notable, but the article is badly referenced. In that case, it deserves a reference tag, not deletion. Finally, there was no concensus between the editors for deletion. I suggest a better response from the administrator would be to have closed the AfD with 'No consensus' and suggested that the article be cleaned up. Maustrauser 22:10, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
A book written by her is not a source. An article written by someone else, which is on her, is a source. And I reject the m:Eventualist stance of "Oh, well someone might find sources at some point in the future, so we can't delete unsourced things". It's your responsibility to find the sources, not other people's responsibility to prove that no sources exist or ever will exist. -Amark moo! 01:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
My frustration is that the AfD showed sources! It showed articles about her written by others! That is why I have brought this to deletion review. Maustrauser 03:18, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Marsden-Donnelly harassment case – Overturn speedy deletion, retitle and list at AFD again. See the long form (6 paragraphs) of the closers comment within. As an editor, the article will also be stubbed before listing again. – GRBerry 07:29, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Long form of closer's comment:
Going strictly by Wikipedia:Undeletion policy#Restoring the page (for admins), this should be sent to AFD again, as the article existed before the speedy deletion, because there is no consensus here to endorse the speedy deletion.

The larger editorial community would probably look at the article the same way they did when the last AFD pointed them at the ArbComm case - they came up with an overwhelming keep result. So we get a cycle of 1) speedy deletion, 2) deletion review overturn, 3) AFD keep, 1) speedy deletion, etc.... We've already been around the cycle once; this is the second time at deletion review. The last ArbComm decision came right in the middle of the AFD that was closed at keep, but what was going to happen was clear to a reader that choose to look even before the AFD started. The AFD result was also obvious at the time the ArbComm closed their case, but I find no evidence that the last deletion review and current AFD had been pointed out to them.

While the cycle is not as fast moving as a wheel war, this isn't much better either, and the cycle is the natural consequence of the ArbComm case. (Anyone who has previously undeleted or speedy deleted and repeats that action is warned that this could be considered a wheel war, including myself if we get a third cycle.) I therefore take guidance from the policy on wheel wars, that dispute resolution should be used as an attempt to break the cycle. There are too many parties (42 here alone, disregarding banned users) for one on one discussion to reach a decision. The normal forum for discussing article deletion is AfD, and nobody endorsed the one proposal to use a different forum, so that is where we will go.

There is fairly weak evidence here of a consensus that we should not have an article at this title, so moving to a new title is part of the close, but the specific title I choose is not. And the ArbComm case says that any editor can stub the articles related to RM. So the close here overturns the speedy deletion, as per the Undeletion policy and brings the article to AFD per both the Undeletion policy and the wheel war policy. I will then, as an editor, move the page to one of the possible better titles and dramatically trim down the article. After that, I will complete the close here by listing at AFD.

A possible compromise outcome that we might be better served by putting a paragraph or two into History of Simon Fraser University was discussed, and is one of the initially proposed RfC. Unfortunately, that one-edit stub would also start suffering undue weight problems and be at risk of failing to remain in a state satisfying WP:BLP if even two paragraphs from this was just dropped in there. Additionally, many of the later keep deleted opiners that said keep deleted per above without clarification thereby left it uncertain if they support or oppose this outcome. One even managed to say per multiple names, some of whom support and some of whom oppose this possible outcome. I hope that the AFD can clarify whether this idea is supported by consensus. GRBerry 07:29, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Closing in progress. Feel free to continue discussing at the bottom. GRBerry 02:27, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I am sad to say this is back at Deletion Review for the second time:

I have since tried to negotiate with SlimVirgin (by email) to have the article undeleted, but she has not agreed to do so.

Discussion on deletion has also taken place at: Talk:Marsden-Donnelly harassment case and Talk:Rachel Marsden/Archive2. I don't dare to summarize the discussion, however it should be noted that much of it comes from single-purpose accounts and sockpuppets. User:Stompin' Tom, who suggested the most recent speedy deletion, is a confirmed sockpuppet of a banned user. In my opinion, no basis in Wikipedia policy has been given for deletion.

A person familiar with Canadian news over the past ten years would not consider this to be a sub-article of Rachel Marsden, or vice-versa. Half an hour of research easily establishes that the case soars above any notability bar we have, by a factor of ten at least. See the cross-section of newspaper articles compiled at Talk:Rachel Marsden/Reliable Sources . Most of the items in numbers 106 to 299 deal directly with the case, and most of the rest make mention of it. The article should be expanded to discuss its far-reaching social impact, for which there is plenty of source material including a 1434 word article in the Phi Delta Kappan. Expanding the article would have the fortunate side effect of making it less focused on the individuals involved. (I've struck-out my vague POV, which is distracting the discussion from the question of how to apply Wikipedia policies for deletion and undeletion. Kla'quot 02:11, 1 February 2007 (UTC))[reply]

The energy spent putting this article through deletions and undeletions would have been much better spent on constructively discussing concerns on the Talk page. Kla'quot 01:33, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Yes, I want the old text back. (Doesn't everyone who brings a deleted article to DRV want the old text back??) It was a very well-sourced article on a complex case and it would take a lot of work to start it from scratch. I put a notice about this deletion review at Talk:Marsden-Donnelly harassment case, probably a minute or so after you looked for it. I don't think it's essential to mention it at Talk:Rachel Marsden and chose not to because I don't want to perpetuate the meme that one article is a sub-article or fork of the other, but since you asked, I will put a notice there. Kla'quot 02:22, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Could an admin please perform a history-only undeletion of this article so contributors 0can see what we are talking about? Kla'quot 02:22, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Isn't it astonishing that a case of "far-reaching social impact" has not been widely covered in the mainstream press or the sociology literature (article in PDK notwithstanding)? It seems to have created a very brief local stir. Keep deleted. Grace Note 02:41, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It's been covered dozens of times by the mainstream press. Maybe less so in your country than in mine. You still haven't given a basis in Wikipedia policy to delete it. Kla'quot 02:49, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
To give some indication of what utter nonsense Grace Note's "brief local stir" comment is, the Ottawa Citizen ran a two-part set of articles about the case, totalling 7438 words, in December 1999. This was two and a half years after the story broke. The distance between SFU and Ottawa is 5660km. Kla'quot 04:05, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes I have. It contained unsourced information on living people. Thus, anyone stopping by should have, and apparently did, remove it. That's what WP:BLP is. -Amark moo! 02:52, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Amarkov, my reply was to Grace Note, not to you. You were the first person to vote Keep in the AfD [30] and nothing has been added to the article since then, so why did you change your mind? And what unsourced information are you talking about? The article was extremely well-referenced. Feel free to email me if it's too sensitive to repeat here. Kla'quot 02:58, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn Apart from being a significant news story in its own right, the Marsden-Donnelly harrassment case had national significance beyond the actions of the two main participants. Several Canadian universities re-evaluated their procedures for adjudicating sexual harrassment complaints in light of the decision, and there was something of a "chill" on the issue for a time. I do not believe the decision to delete this page was appropriate, and I have some reason to suspect that SlimVirgin's perspective on the matter may not conform precisely to the expected standards of neutrality. ([31], [32], [33], [34], [35]) CJCurrie 04:21, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted. The ArbCom ruling allowed that any admin could delete the Marsden articles if there were BLP concerns, and I feel the concerns are very real in this case. She's arguably not notable enough for one article, let alone two. The first of the articles was created by a Canadian left-wing political activist as what appeared to be an attack page, one of a number of such pages on right-wing figures the editor didn't like. Since then, both articles have attracted a lot of trouble and very poor editing. There were blogs being used as sources, including, if I understood the ArbCom case correctly, a blog belonging to an admin who both edited the page and took admin action in relation to it; speculation about Marsden's sexuality; sly implications that she doesn't tell the truth about her education or professional life; people involved in the situation in real life editing the article; persistent sockpuppetry on both sides; and allegedly demonstrable damage to Marsden's career as a direct result of the articles. In fact, just about everything that should worry us BLP-wise has happened on one of the Marsden pages. Given her borderline notability, we should have at most one article about her, and we do at Rachel Marsden. SlimVirgin (talk) 08:04, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • 1)The ArbCom case never determined that a blog belonging to an admin was used as a source for this page. This may have been asserted by one of the participants, but never appeared in the final decision nor was it even extensively discussed. A search of the relevant blog for "Marsden" brings up nothing, so I doubt this is true. 2) Most of the BLP concerns you raise appeared in Rachel Marsden and not in Marsden-Donnelly harassment case. Problems with a previous version of an article X are not a reason to delete the best-available version of article Y, and since when did we delete based on the worst-available version of any page? 3) The political orientation of contributors is not a reason to delete. 4) Marsden-Donnelly harassment case has been written mainly by well-established users, and the participation of sockpuppets is not a reason to delete anyway. 5) There are hundreds of articles in reliable newspapers, from all across Canada, whose primary subject is either the harassment case or Rachel Marsden. This is not borderline notability no matter how many times you say it is. If we were to have one article, it should be the harassment case article, not Rachel Marsden. Kla'quot 18:01, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • It all depends what you mean by non-trivial coverage, I think. There is certainly a lot of sensationalist coverage, as one would expect given that this is a politically active individual, but no real evidence of scholarly critical review of the case that I've seen. Can anyone cite reviews in the legal journals or use as precedent as case law? That would be non-trivial. We'd need to be sure of that before taking on the pain of maintaining an article which has been used as a hatchet job in the past - it seems the only peopel who really care about this article are Marsden's political opponents. And I don't buy CJCurrie's accusations of bias against SV, either. Guy (Help!) 10:02, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
1) The imagined or real political orientation of contributors is not basis in policy to delete, especially given that an AfD closed as an overwhelming Keep. 2) Who has called Marsden-Donnelly harassment case a hatchet job, and where? 3) Are you saying that the notability bar for cases is "reviews in the legal journals and precedent as case law"? What policy did you get this from? 4) Cases settled out of court do not set legal precedent. You still have not given any basis in Wikipedia policy to delete this article. Kla'quot 16:45, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • 1) Oh yes it does, if the presence only of detractors and political opponents means that WP:BLP is being violated; 2) ArbCom in the Marsed case referred to several of the articles as including WP:BLP violations, including this one; 3) the notability bar is non-trivial coverage, sensationalist coverage in local or regional media is, by and large, trivial, hence I am asking what wider coverage exists - we have articles on many ground-breaking cases cited as precedent, we do not have articles on most cases even though most will have at least a couple of mentions in the local press - Wikipedia is not tabloid journalism, Wikinews is thataway → ; 4) All sorts of cases can set precedent, even if the precedent is only that such cases do not get prosecuted. Per policy, we are not a directory of legal cases, a tabloid newspaper or an attack site. Which is why I have concerns over this article. But I keep an open mind, which is why I asked for more information. Your response encourages me to believe that no wider coverage exists and that this is being pursued for sensationalist and political reasons. I apologise for my cynicism. Guy (Help!) 19:13, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I'd like to answer your question about what wider coverage exists. Has the case been discussed in legal journals? To the best of my knowledge, no. Has it been extensively covered beyond the "local and regional" press, in stories that are multiple-pages long, beyond a brief period of time, beyond sensationalist stories, and beyond the tabloid press? Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes, all at the same time, and these sources are cited in the article. If there is a spectrum of significance with minor local junk at the low end and multiple ciations in legal journals on the high end, this event falls somewhere within the spectrum, as do many events for which we have articles in Wikipedia (including all current events). I think we agree that we should delete articles on events that are at the low end of the spectrum, and we generally should keep articles at the high end. We're looking at something in-between, so I'm asking for us to a) articulate what the standard for inclusion really is, and b) evaluate whether this event meets the standard, as separate exercises. My participation in (b) will be limited: After being put through the wringer yesterday for citing sources too much (see my talk page), I have chosen to stop participating, as much as possible, in any discussion about information that relates to Marsden. Kla'quot 22:07, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
In response to your question about scholarly critical review of the case: Reviews whose primary subject is this case include a 51-page position paper by the Fraser Institute (cited in the article) a position paper by the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, and an article in Canada's oldest political magazine, Canadian Forum. The case was also one of many cases used to support the thesis of a 2004 book written by a criminology professor; this book itself has been reviewed enough to meet Wikipedia's notability criteria for books. Let me know if you want me to email you with details. There is also the Phi Delta Kappan article that I mentioned in the nomination for this DRV. Kla'quot 18:09, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted I do not think the issue is non-trivial coverage. I think the issue is that the harassment case is if not the only then one of two or three things that merits any article at all. The current article addresses the harassment case. My point is simply that Marsden merits only one article. the current article could go into appropriate encyclopediac detail about the case and its significance and still be WAY under the ideal word-limit for wikipedia articles. And anyone interested in this case can easily find the Marsden article and thus all the information anyone could want to find concerning the case at Wikipedia. One article is enough. If the article reaches 50 kb and there is a consensus that all the material in the article conforms with all of our policies, then we can discuss spin-off articles. Slrubenstein | Talk 13:47, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
"We need one article, not two" is an argument for merging, not deleting. The Rachel Marsden article is deliberately short due to the difficulty of writing a longer NPOV article about her, and currently says almost nothing about the case. The harassment case is historically far more important than Rachel Marsden, so if we were to merge them, I would vote to keep the harassment case article. Kla'quot 16:45, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
My understanding is that much of that content was deleted because it either violated NOR or Verifiability or came from an inappropriate source. There is no need to officially merge articles. If any deleted content is fully compliant with WP:NOR and WP:V and comes from appropriate sources, just add that content to the current article!! Slrubenstein | Talk 16:51, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree with what you say about the content that was deleted from Rachel Marsden, but in any case, I am not suggesting that the articles be merged. What I am suggesting is that if we merged the articles, Marsden-Donnelly harassment case should be the title of the resulting article. Please clarify if you want the articles merged or if you want Marsden-Donnelly harassment case deleted; we can't do both. Kla'quot 17:20, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted, massive undue weight problem, WP:BLP and the Arbcom case are enough reason to keep it deleted. The claim that the case had any impact beyond SFU appears to be so much armwaving, as it's been repeated endlessly with no hard evidence that I've seen - it isn't even asserted in the article as it stood, only in Wikipedia space. --Sam Blanning(talk) 14:41, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I'm sorry, but how does BLP apply in the least to articles which are well-sourced, like this one? And how can you justify deletion because of an Arbcom case, especially when they make it clear that they did not intend to say that the article had to be deleted? -Amark moo! 15:18, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Sam, could you please clarify what you mean by "a massive undue weight problem"? What point of view is being given undue weight in this article? Kla'quot 17:44, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Undue weight here refers to the amount of detail lavished on an event of no proven significance. When we devote paragraph after paragraph to such an event, either we're trying to damage the subject, or it looks like we're trying to damage the subject, and which it is doesn't matter. As to why BLP applies, BLP applies because it's a biography of a living person. Verifiability is not the only non-negotiable policy here, WP:NPOV is no less important just because it's more subjective. --Sam Blanning(talk) 19:26, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • Sam, everyone agrees that the WP:BLP policy applies to this article. The question is: How is is it being violated in this article? You seem to be saying (please correct me if I'm wrong) that if neutrally covering an event in detail would damage one of the individuals involved, we need to demonstrate that the case is of proven signifcance. Am I understanding you correctly? Kla'quot 19:36, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted per Sam Blanning. GreenJoe 17:20, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted per Sam Blanning. KillerChihuahua?!? 17:40, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn since it was speedy deleted and resubmit to an AFD. If consensus in an AFD says delete then delete, otherwise keep. General Idea 18:24, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Just since it's becoming a recurring topic here at DRV, the standing community consensus is the one from the last AfD. So any "Keep deleted" opinions are in fact "overturn AfD closure, delete" opinions, and "Overturn, restore" are "Enforce AfD closure" opinions. So unless there is overwhelming consensus to overturn the AfD consensus, this will be sent back. ~ trialsanderrors 19:53, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted per Sam Blanning above. Tom Harrison Talk 19:07, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted, by its nature a violation of Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons Fred Bauder 19:31, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment on nomination: The claim in the nomination that "Arbcom clarification issued [36][37][38], indicating that Arbcom had not asked for the article to be deleted" is a misrepresentation. In all three links, it's very clear that SimonP is referring to the deletion of Rachel Marsden and only Rachel Marsden, not Marsden-Donnelly harassment case as the nomination claims. --Sam Blanning(talk) 19:38, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I was specifically referring to the Marsden article in those comments, and personally I doubt that the case merits its own page; however, this subject certainly should be covered in the Marsdean and SFU articles. - SimonP 18:50, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I understand what you're saying. My reading of Arbcom's intent is subjective and dependent on context: Several questions were asked in the request for clarification. CJCurrie pointed out that both pages had already been deleted, and asked whether page deletion is a solution. [39] I asked why ArbCom did not delete the pages themselves as soon as the case closed.[40] The clarification was worded in general terms and did not directly address specific questions. If they wanted either page to be deleted, this was their chance to say so but they clearly chose not to. My point is that Arbcom has never asked for Marsden-Donnelly harassment case, as it existed at the close of the Arbcom case, to be deleted. Immediate deletion was not requested in their Final Decision, and (in my view) the clarification made it more clear that immediate deletion was not being requested. Kla'quot 19:54, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The relevant Arbcom statement is: "Articles which relate to Rachel Marsden, may, when they violate Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons, be reduced to a stub by any user or deleted, together with their talk pages, by any administrator.[41]" SlimVirgin has made some less-than exact paraphrases of this before:
I hope this explains why I brought up the ArbCom clarification in my nomination: I have seen Arbcom's decision paraphrased before in ways that I consider skewed. Everything I've seen from Arbcom members since then indicates that their original statement stands as stated - no more, no less. Kla'quot 06:04, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Per Fred. However, it might be appropriate to include some of this material in Simon Fraser University. The notable event was not the Marsden-Donelly case itself, but the fact that this case prompted a review of the handling of harassment cases that resulted in several old cases being overturned and the resignation of the university president. A brief description of the Marsden case in the context of the overall controversy at SFU might be appropriate. Naming the article after Marsden is by itself a BLP/undue weight violation--it would be like writing an article about the Trojan War calling it the Paris-Helen affair. Thatcher131 20:29, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • It doesn't. We're interpreting ArbCom's findings re the problematic history of these articles and the difficulty of keeping them compliant, with content removed up in one place only to pop up in another. Guy (Help!) 19:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The duty of anyone who encounters material of this nature to delete it arises from Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. There is no limit or restriction on deletion. Being based on exposure of an individual to opprobrium, it cannot be made into an acceptable article. Fred Bauder 18:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This is a pretty blatant misreading of BLP. There is no "exposure to oppobrium", as you call it, the "exposure" happened in the unvisersity proceedings an in the national press. BLP allows for deletion of unsourced material, not for any material an editor might find objectionable. ~ trialsanderrors 18:45, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Fred, it's not clear to me whether you're saying that the original sources or the article are based on exposure of an individual to opprobrium. It can't be the sources, because they were all written before Rachel Marsden's career began. The public had never heard of her before the story broke. As for the article, as long as it sticks closely to the sources (which it does) it should be OK. Kla'quot 06:50, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted. Per many good arguments presented. Jayjg (talk) 03:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Deleted per Sam (and Fred and Thatcher). As for ArbCom, I'm not sure that people are saying we have to delete this because they say so but more we should delete this because of the problems that they recognized. On the other hand, As the highest level of dispute resolution ArbCom has authority to issue binding decisions in the name of the community/Jimbo. Where there are substantive policy issues (such as WP:BLP), as opposed to a simple content dispute, at stake I see no problem with making a deletion decision. Eluchil404 06:27, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Deleted Issue of whether Marsden was harassed was never resolved and no precedents of any kind were set. Of local notability at best. Kitty's little helper 11:51, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Deleted per all of the above. - Merzbow 01:24, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Deleted as per arguments presented. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 03:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse consensus AfD closure, overturn unilateral deletion First of all, even if anywhere remotely true, Sam Blanning's comments amount to an AfD round 2, which routinely gets thrown out at DRV. No argument was made why the AfD endorsement was out of process. Second, his misreading of NPOV is egregious. Claiming that the harassment case is not notable enough for a stand-alone article and needs to be merged into the Harsden article is like claiming the 2006 Duke University lacrosse team scandal article needs to be merged into Crystal Gail Mangum. Evidence for national notability per WP:N is overwhelming. After reading 100 kilobytes of material on the case from 1997–99 Newsbank and Lexis-Nexis articles there is no doubt in my mind that under any additional restrictions the article would still look functionally identical to the one endorsed by AfD and deleted by SlimVirgin. If we require triple-sourcing for every claim made the article would look functionally the same. If we require that each claim be sourced to only the three or four most reputable media sources in Canada the article would still look the same. If require that no local newspapers be used to support the claims the article would still be functionally the same. Even (and that's the only claim in the article I found dubious) if we restrict ourselves to only international coverage we could write an article that supports the key claims. There is no substantial disagreement among reputable media sources on the key facts, which is clearly within Due Weight: If a viewpoint is in the majority, then it should be easy to substantiate it with reference to commonly accepted reference texts. Kla'quot made every effort possible to substantiate this, and all she got here in response is a number of established editors putting fingers in their ears and singing lalala so they don't have to acknowledge the evidence. The attempts to constantly move the goalposts here in order to discourage Kla'quot from editing the article is equally shameful and amounts to functional censorship. The idea that a comprehensive list of sourced headlines relevant to the case amount to biased editing and fails BLP is an egregious misreading of our policies. "Newspaper X wrote Y on day Z" is in Wikipedia parlance a fact as long as there is no reasonable disagreement that newspaper X actually ran headline Y on day Z. This is the currency Wikipedia is built on, and to claim that The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Maclean's, or even the Vancouver Sun are suddenly unreliable sources just because they all agree on a sequence of events that make Harsden (and Stubbs, who seems to have been forgotten here) look bad is ad-hoc legislation. WP:BLP requires tight sourcing of all claims and respect of privacy, but it at no point requires that public, agreed-upon information from reputable sources has to be removed because it is unflattering to the subject. Another arbitrary ad-hoc criterion unsupported by policy and in ignorance of the facts is to require that this case has to set a legal precedent. There is no legal case, the parties agreed, a priori and a posteriori, to resolve the issue in mediation, and "legal precedent" has never been offered as a claim to notability. The claims were, in order, cause célèbre (media attention), resignation of the president of a major university and rewriting of procedures (institutional impact). Those claims were endorsed by the Afd and it is outside the purview of DRV to renege on those. It is within the purview of DRV to scrutinize SlimVirgin's deletion, and the way this task has been ignored is blatant. There is no single comment above that pinpoints an unsourced claim in the article, or provides evidence that a viewpoint held by a significant minority has been ignored or that private matter was made public by a Wikipedia editor. There is no scrutiny of her defense which amounts to "older versions of a different article used questionable sources", along with a number of insinuations about the motives of editors. Instead we get handwaving over unspecified notability issues and the proposal of a remedy that is outside the purview of DRV and GFDL. This review should be declared a mistrial and restarted, with a clear directive that DRV procedures be followed, policy breaches be pinpointed, and evidence be provided. In addition, several editors here owe Kla'quot an apology. If anyone is actually interested in the source material and can't access Newsbank or Lexis-Nexis, contact me. ~ trialsanderrors 22:02, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • When I was told on my talk page of a length reply to my post, I was expecting some concrete reason that might lead me to change my mind, not this bucketload of bluster and hysteria ("several editors here owe Kla'quot an apology"? o rly? I'll get my self-flagellation whip and my kow-towing kneepads) coupled with appeal to the imaginary WikiJudges that routinely overturn anything that wasn't done in process. If my reasoning is an 'Afd round 2', that's unfortunate, but if AfD had got it right, I would have been able to say 'endorse AfD', but they didn't, policy had to be put above process, and it has to be put above process here as well. None of the above changes the fact that this article is undue weight. Especially as long as the central Rachel Marsden article remains only slightly above a stub (currently six very short and loosely connected paragraphs), undeleting this two-page snigger would be ludicrous, and reverse all the effort put in by Arbcom and others into getting this small corner of Wikipedia into a respectable state of affairs. And probably after then as well. --Sam Blanning(talk) 18:34, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • The length of the Marsden article is entirely irrelevant. Not all actors in a public scandal have biographies beyond their involvement in the scandal. Undue weight characterizes the length of the article compared to the volume of reputable source material, and the inclusion of minority viewpoints. Per WP:BLP: In the case of significant public figures, there will be a multitude of reliable, third-party published sources to take information from, and Wikipedia biographies should simply document what these sources say. If an allegation or incident is notable, relevant, and well-documented by reliable published sources, it belongs in the article — even if it's negative and the subject dislikes all mention of it. As it is now, the length of the article is at less than 5% of the available source material, and uses sources conservatively and neutrally. Your lack of WP:AGF and WP:CIVIL is noted though. ~ trialsanderrors 19:01, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oh dear, I've violated some acronyms. Please go ahead and note it, and have the imaginary WikiStenographer carbon copy your notes on my imaginary WikiContemptOfCourt to my office. My sister's hamster needs more bedding. --Sam Blanning(talk) 01:39, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong overturn per trialsanderrors, who absolutely nailed it. --badlydrawnjeff talk 22:12, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • restore article I wasn't involved in earlier rounds. It seems that a highly respected WP ed. and admin made an obviously wrong decision, for whatever reason. . The remedy against such decisions is of course this process, and the minimum that need be done is to restore the article, with an understanding that the repeated use of speedy process is not appropriate. Like any article affected by many hostile edits, the best procedure would be to recreate it from scratch. Presumably the article will then be submitted for AfD once again, but it is only 60 days since the previous AfD closed. I gather we have no remedy against multiple continuing attempts to find by chance an admin willing to close in the direction desired. Wouldn't a RfC on the article be the better choice? It should give a more definitive result. DGG 23:01, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Participants in the prior deletion discussions have been notified. ~ trialsanderrors 19:30, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn - let me get this straight: The article is debated at AfD, which rightly (and overwhelmingly) comes to a consensus that it is a keep. After long debates and strong consensus building, the article is speedily deleted despite not coming close to meeting any relevent criterion. I'm not sure why it's generated this much discussion when it is such a clear overturn as procedures were not only not followed, but circumvented to reach an erroneous conclusion against overwhelming consensus. WilyD 19:36, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn The reason for the AfD being overwhelmingly "keep" was the large number of reliable sources verifying content, as well as establishing notability. It's not up to us to decide past events; our authority on history, events and notoriety is reliable sources and, as trialsanderrors pointed out, there's no reason to charge that The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Maclean's or the Vancouver Sun are all inaccurate. We're heading into a double standard at WP if we make more stringent demands of verification from reliable sources and then do an about-face and suddendly start ignoring them. --Oakshade 19:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Deleted per Sam Blanning above. A mes chers confrères canadiens: shrilly indignant lessons on the various importance of different news sources in the Canadian market is unhelpful, small-minded and missing the point. Eusebeus 20:00, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I don't mind being called shrill, indignant, small-minded or missing the point, but I certainly take offense at being called Canadian. :-) I would go as far as claim that until three days ago, I had no knowledge of your country's existence. ~ trialsanderrors 23:52, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I had looked at this deletion review and decided not to comment because I was torn. But then, because of my If by whiskey response to the previous DRV, I was asked to come here and comment. In for a penny, in for a pound I guess. Thinking about this some, it seems there are sufficient sources that establish notability. Good God, that's an understatement. There are copious sources on this, and multiple, independent coverage is the standard, rather than more subjective criteria, such as whether something sets a significant legal precedent or not. But the Arbcom case contained this remedy:

2) Articles which relate to Rachel Marsden, may, when they violate Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons, be reduced to a stub by any user or deleted, together with their talk pages, by any administrator. Removal of poorly sourced negative information or of blocks of grossly unbalanced negative material is not subject to the three revert rule. Such material may be removed without limit.

Pass 6-0 at 16:21, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
So, these articles can be created, then an administrator can determine that they violate WP:BLP and delete them. That decision can then be brought here. If deletion is upheld, the article can be created again (using those sources trialsanderrors talks about), and then can be... Well, you get the point. We need to have an article on Rachel Marsden. The harrassment case needs to be covered as part of the History of Simon Fraser University. We don't really need a separate article on this topic. This current debate is simply the continuation of the ArbCom case by other means. A possible way to resolve this is the Brian Peppers solution: delete and salt for a year. Maybe then tempers will have cooled down. JChap2007 20:55, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for summarizing the procedure. So the question which still has to be answered is: Which statement within the deleted article failed WP:BLP, i.e. was potentially slanderous and unsourced? Alternatively, which favorable sources have been ignored in favor of other, unfavorable sources? ~ trialsanderrors 21:06, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well, my point had more to do with how this article was subject to serial creation and deletion because there are arguable points on each side. As you, quite rightly pointed out, there are numerous sources. But Sam believes that there is an undue weight problem: WP's coverage of Marsden is mostly about the sexual harrassment case. How much weight to assign to various incidents in a person's life when writing an article about here is inherently a subjective judgement, usually solved by compromise. No one here is interested in compromising, however. They're primarily interested in proving they were right. And the background, procedures and ArbCom remedies surrounding this virtually guarantee serial recreation and deletion. JChap2007 21:28, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • There seems to be an odd perception that the case is about Marsden, which might be due to the inordinate attention her article has received at ArbCom. The article is about Marsden, Donnelly, Stubbs, SFU, and other players, all of which have a right to unbiased representation. Since there were adversaries, all biased information in favor of Marsden is unfavorbale against Donnelly, etc. That's why it's very important to keep those two things separate. The weight of this case will undoubtedly unbalance any ancillary article it's included in, although History of Simon Fraser University might be the closest match. But that's a notability dispute which is tangential. The primary dispute is about the sources included by bucketsofg, and no matter how they're refactored into different articles, I haven't seen an argument (other than Fred Bauder's) that there is policy which allows for the removal of reputable sources. Even WP:BLP is adamant that sourcing is paramount. ~ trialsanderrors 21:35, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • No-one here is interested in compromising? The fact that the Rachel Marsden article is intentionally a stub is a good example of a compromise. Here, I have agreed to moving the article, and so has trialsanderrors. I have indicated that I am willing to seriously discuss merging the two articles. I have suggested expanding the article so that it does not focus so much on the individuals. I have raised no objections to ideas for rewriting the article, which I think are mostly good but do not belong in this DRV. In summary, I have agreed to at least discuss just about everything except keeping this article deleted when there is no basis in policy for doing so. Kla'quot 07:48, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Absolutely the case involves more people than just Marsden. I would argue that they don't have any "right" to representation or coverage here, only that if we do cover them they have the right to be treated fairly (meaning any information be in compliance with WP:BLP with no undue weight given to the facts favorable or unfavorable to any side). It is still unclear to me why we need a separate article to do that. And I would note that the ArbCom's decision applies to any article "related to Rachel Marsden." Whether or not the original case was actually about Marsden, it is clear that the ArbCom remedy would apply to this article. Much of the continuing interest in the case (both on-and-off wiki) does seem related to her involvement. The irony is just too delicious: a Canadian version of Ann Coulter was involved in beyond-Oleanna behaviour in a sexual harrassment case. In the end, it's a simple cost-benefit analysis: the benefit is an article focussing on a scandal involving a minor media celebrity, the cost is continued enormous disruption. I say, there is no deadline here. Let's do the article in a year. We are unlikely to get anything stable in the time being. JChap2007 00:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I agree, and I don't think they particularly like to be included. The right is that of the Wikipedia editor in return for establishing notability and providing a fair set of reputable sources and derives from our policies. I don't think a year will change anything. The precedent that is being established here that if you care enough about the article to run through the gauntlet erected to protect it from being recreated then you must have invidious motives will not go away. ~ trialsanderrors 00:44, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Judging from its history, the content of the article had been stable in the months before it was deleted, except for vandalism. I can find no version that has any kind of "disputed" template on it. There were no comments at all on the Talk page between March and December of last year. The number of comments on the Talk page that are not part of deletion discussions is exactly one, and it's unsigned. (There is also some relevant discussion in the archives of Talk:Rachel Marsden from last spring.) The only thing unstable about this article is its existence. This may set some kind of record for being the most undisputed page to ever earn comments from Arbcom. And please see the humour in this: The article's second edit was a stub-sort by none other than Sam Blanning. Kla'quot 07:48, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn due to previous AfDs, the fact that this story has had national press attention and the fact that the effects as a result of this story have been significant. Also, it's verifiable and the sources (both in number and by type, as many of them are national news outlets) certainly make this article notable. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 21:07, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted, per Bauder and Blanning. Proto:: 21:31, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Query The petitioner for deletion review writes The article should be expanded to discuss its far-reaching social impact, for which there is plenty of source material including a 1434 word article in the Phi Delta Kappan. I've looked at the full text of this article (available through a free trial of High Beam[42]), and I don't see anything that corresponds with "far-reaching social impact". There's this line "Clearly, the Marsden/Donnelly case has been one of the more notorious sexual harassment fiascos in Canada, and it sent strong signals about the many inequities in the handling of sexual harassment cases by Canadian universities" (and well there's this too: "Simon Fraser's sensational case has all the makings of an erotic made-for-TV movie"). But the only substantive impacts due to the case described by the article appear to be localized to Simon Fraser University. ("Strong signals" is too vague and insubstantial). The article starts out by suggesting that the Simon Fraser case belongs to sexual harrassment policy problem trend in British Columbia universities that were first marked by two earlier (1993 and 1995 - the Marsen case was in 1997) cases at the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia. The article also refers to coverage in the Canadian media but not to international coverage. Can the petitioner come up with sources showing "far-reaching social impact" as well as the international prominence (a "cause célèbre") claimed but not proven in the Marsden case article? (The only international coverage (excluding general newswire reports) I can find on this case is a "Letter from Canada" opinion column in the Lifestyle section of the Malaysian New Straits Times.). Bwithh 22:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I don't think there is much evidence for the international cause célèbre, although I found a few more international sources (Wash Times, grrr). This certainly needs to be stricken from the claim to notability: The case became a cause célèbre both in Canada and internationally because of the salaciousness of the details, the topicality of sexual harassment, and the procedures for investigating it. The case led to the resignation of SFU President John Stubbs and a rewriting of procedures for investigating allegations of sexual harassment. The rest, as far I can tell, is accurate. So social impact seems to be in line with other cases in List of academic scandals and Category:Scandals, especially the Duke lacrosse case, probably the closest contemporary match. ~ trialsanderrors 23:05, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm fine with the institutional social impact localized to Simon Fraser. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm (still thinking) Bwithh 23:31, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I've struck the "far-reaching" part of my nomination, as it's a vague statement that can't be proven one way or the other, and it's irrelevant to DRV. The original reasoning beind my comment came from two articles. In one, the Canadian Association of University Teachers said, "Many commentators noted that universities across the country were likely to reconsider their sexual harassment policies as a consequence of this case." Another, published by the Hamilton Spectator in 1998, was entirely devoted to the effects of the case on feminism and the status of women. One quote "But the message to women on campuses was clear -- for God's sake, if you're being sexually harassed, keep it to yourself. That message was clear to the women at SFU, where complaints dropped by 80 percent. " The "international cause célèbre" claim doesn't come from me and I doubt it's accurate. Kla'quot 07:48, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Clayquot, I'm concerned that your comment implies you feel this article is important because the case sent the message to women that "if you're being sexually harassed, keep it to yourself." But your interest in this has been to criticize, or even attack, the woman who made the complaint. That's why a number of people have felt uncomfortable, and it's why the BLP issue kicked in: the undue weight issue. And you're right: the case was neither far-reaching nor did it have any international impact as I believe was claimed at one point. SlimVirgin (talk) 15:35, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I am a feminist woman quoting another feminist woman writer who made the comment in her pro-feminist article. You are making a sly, hurtful, entirely unfounded, and completely false insinuation that I want to keep this article in order to discourage reporting of sexual harassment claims. It is a personal attack. I have never edited the article whose deletion we are reviewing here, and only started editing Rachel Marsden (check my contributions to see if they violate BLP) after you and Arthur Ellis's sockpuppet made similar blanket allegations on its Talk page and drove off most of the men. Kla'quot 17:45, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn without prejudice against future afds; recommend toning down of article claims I'm not convinced that the article needed to be speedy deleted under WP:BLP, which appears to be the critical issue here (rather than the case for encyclopedic notability outlined by Kla'quot. Trialsanderrors' point that the case involves SFU, Donnelly and John Stubbs not just Marsden is a good one. I strongly suggest that this article's unsourced claims to importance be referenced or removed. I'm not yet convinced by the notability case for a separate article on this subject and expect to vote for a merge of cut-down content in a potential future afd of this article Bwithh 23:41, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I would like to draw the attention of readers to User Talk:LotusLander2006. CJCurrie 02:55, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn, or rather accept community decision to keep per AfD consensus and WP:NOT censored. WP:BLP applies to unsourced negative information, not sourced and correct negative information which is unflattering. If the article's a POV/BLP problem, full-protect a fully-sourced NPOV version until both sides hash that out, but don't censor it. Seraphimblade 08:02, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse consensus AfD closure, overturn unilateral deletion as per trialanderrors. --Duke of Duchess Street 14:45, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn per previous community decisions and per Trialsanderrors above.  ALKIVAR 04:55, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment The idea that this article, just by existence, fails NPOV is bizarre. Applying this logic to a more internationally well-known incident, it's like saying the existence of Lewinsky scandal fails NPOV because it dwells on a single unflattering incident in the life of Monica Lewinsky. Aside from the identity of the contributors, zero evidence has been given that the article is itself biased. If you have to look at the names of contributors in order to tell that an article may be biased, that is the very definition of an NPOV article.
I do think the idea of deleting articles on trivial or ephemeral news events that could damage living people is a reasonable one, and notability guidelines for events could be rewritten to say so. However, it is very unlikely that the community would accept jacking up the notability bar high enough to justify deleting this article. Will we require editorials in the national newspaper of record? Multiple Google Scholar results? If we did, it still would not be high enough to have this article deleted.
I completely agree that it is important to avoid giving the appearance of creating an attack page. It is equally important that we avoid the appearance of whitewashing history in order to protect political interests. And it's hard to think of a more blatant way give that impression than to circumvent our own policies so we can suppress information unflattering to someone who was once asked to run for office by the party currently governing the country. Kla'quot 06:08, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn per Trialsanderrors analysis. Catchpole 09:16, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn as per trialsanderrors. As I said in the AfD, the article has the potential to be NPOV, I don't see why badly sourced POV nonsense warrants deletion of the article, as opposed to the bad material. Stubify is necessary, but deletion is an overreaction. Lankiveil 11:13, 2 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]
  • I participated in the most recent AfD debate, and at the time felt that the article was suitable for retention, largely on the grounds that it appeared to be a moderately well-known case in Canada, and appeared to have adequate references. For background it may be useful to note that I am not Canadian, nor had I heard of this case before the AfD debate. I have now reviewed the article, and the various debates about it, paying particular attention to privacy concerns, the risk of libel, and the risk of misrepresentation of the points of view of the various parties in the case. In my comments in the AfD debate I noted that I would have preferred the article to have as little in the way of salacious comment as possible.
I participate in a large number of AfD debates - working on such debates is, in fact, my principal contribution to Wikipedia - and the first questions I ask of articles under review for deletion are the simple ones of notability and supporting references/sources. It seems to me that there is clear evidence that references/sources for this topic are adequate, and when I search for this subject on the internet there is prima facie evidence of notability: the case made the news, and had a significant impact on the people involved and the university in question. Policies were changed, and actions performed or reversed, as a result of this case. Broadly, I feel that this case should therefore be covered by Wikipedia.
The case itself does not reflect well on the participants. Given the kind of case, the allegations made and the participants' previous relationship ( the earlier case involving a junior team ) this is not surprising. Unfortunately, these items are all matters of verifiable fact, and it appears to possible to document them all, along with other substantive matters of fact, in a NPOV way. I wish to support and re-iterate a comment made above by Kla'quot: "The idea that this article, just by existence, fails NPOV is bizarre." I believe it is quite possible to write articles on court cases in a way that ensures a balanced presentation of the facts: in fact, we already have many cases covered in Wikipedia.
One question that has been discussed is the possibility of merging this article with the article on Rachel Marsden. I feel this would be inappropriate, as she was not the only participant in the case, and in the interests of balance we should not seek to give any one participant in the case undue prominence or weight. That Ms Marsden has gone on to a successful career and attained notability in her own right is certainly reason for her to have her own article, but as I understand it the events of this case, its reasons for notability, and the publication of the relevant sources all pre-date her successful public career.
Finally, on the question of the article name, I wish to follow the guidance given by my colleagues in these debates ( I am "assuming good faith" in accepting this guidance ) and suggest that the article be renamed from "Marsden-Donnelly Harassment Case" to "Marsden-Donnelly Case", if this is indeed our preferred form for such case names.
In conclusion, is seems to me ( after some fairly exhaustive and exhausting reading ) that: (1) the case is notable and can be adequately documented; (2) the case can be presented in an NPOV and non-salacious way; and, (3) it is coincidental ( that is, was not caused by her participation in this case ) that Ms Marsden has found subsequent fame in an unrelated field. Accordingly, I advocate that we Retain this article, that we Protect against deletion without further discussion, that we Review for bias, and edit appropriately to remove POV items, and finally that we Rename as "Marsden-Donnelly Case".
Please let me know if I can make any further contribution. WMMartin 14:58, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted - WP:BLP is not to be trifled with, and whether you find your self in opposition or support of this person, WP articles have to hold themselves to a high standard. --Leifern 16:03, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted per Sam Blanning and Thatcher131. Any encyclopaedic [verifiable] information should be included in the main article, and heed payed to BLP. TewfikTalk 16:18, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted I've been following this case since it was at arbcom, though I don't believe I ever commented about it before now. This case is by no means clear cut, and there's right on both sides of the debate above. Having said that, though, a blow-by-blow description of what was ultimately a very minor scandal is, well, something of an "undue weight fork," to coin a phrase. A scandal that brings down the president of a country is quite a bit different from one that brings down the president of a university. IronDuke 17:14, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oh, I didn't realize you're still around. So what exactly is the source of your objection to the article? BLP clearly, as discussed above, does not state that "we cannot have articles that present living people in a negative light". It states "we cannot have unsourced, poorly sourced or unduly unbalanced articles on events that present living people in a negative light". I have no idea where this thing got so completely out of control that people have to make those extraordinary and unsubstantiated claims. This is a mid-level scandal at a fairly prominent Canadian university that never got A1 frontpage 84pt font headline billing, but was still covered extensively by all the major Canadian news outlets over an extended period of time and still reverberates through the press. As I posted on JChap's talk page, I polled four Canadian friends about Marsden, and three of them actively remembered the case. So this is far from obscure, and we certainly don't have a policy called WP:LETSLEEPINGDOGSLIE. Not to toot my own horn here, but I would claim that I would be a perfect candidate to edit an article on such a topic. I know fuck-all about Canadian politics or punditry, I pass the WP:FORGET test because I have never even heard of the case or the participants before. I even managed to be accused of having both a left and a right wing bias in my editing history here. Now after having read some 30,000 words on the case if I wanted to create such an article it wouldn't look all that different from the one we're discussing here, maybe with some of the claims about impact toned down and more direct quotes and claims about events double-sourced. The players are certainly not portrayed in an unduly negative light, there is far worse in the source material (from top-level newspapers, not the tabloids which I'm sure had a go at it). Right now it's at less 3% of the coverage available to me, so it's probably at less than 1% of the actual coverage. And lastly our respnsibility is not to the participants in the case but to our readers who have come to expect Wikipedia to be the first port of call on dispassionate and accurate information about noteworthy events including scandals, especially if the primary sources are hidden behind paywalls. ~ trialsanderrors 18:47, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • The arguments have been made by many others already, T&E, so take a look above for the details. In summary, she's borderline notable. We therefore don't need two articles on her; and we need to pay heed to the undue weight issue, which is very pressing in this case, because very little biographical material exists about her, given her borderline notability. SlimVirgin (talk) 19:12, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • That's an argument for deletion of the Marsden bio, as happened to the Donnelly bio. He was also considered non-notable outside the case, so any bio on him would be unduly biased by the discussion of the case. (Also technically that was a prodded deletion.) The idea that the case should be discussed on the Marsden bio creates undue weight, because she was only one of four players in the case. The case for all I can tell should be discussed in an article titled "1997 Simon Fraser University harassment scandal" or somesuch, but that's a page move issue. ~ trialsanderrors 19:18, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Your argument misses the point. Lots of biographical material has been published about Lewinsky, because she is truly notable, notwithstanding that she become notable over an arguably negative issue. With Marsden, very little is known about her, because she's borderline notable, so the undue weight issue of the negative material is overwhelming. SlimVirgin (talk) 19:09, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Closing in progress. Please add any additional comments below this line of text. GRBerry 02:27, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Pawn Game – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 02:32, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Well written real page, is notable. It was deleted due to (nn web) I am new to wikipedia, so please forgive the quality of what I am doing. Pawn Game I believe is a notable game, and it worthy of staying up. Just like Stick arena is because they are basically the same thing. it is a game that is created and is playable, forums, domain etc. I will keep it updated. I do not know what to say? I am new, but I love wikipedia, but this is my first ever created submission, besides minor edits, etc.

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, trialsanderrors 00:52, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion I see no claim of significance or importance in the article, which makes deletion under WP:CSD#A7 legitimate. I see no evidence in the article or appeal that anyone unrelated to the game has published anything in a reliable source about it. I do see the version release notes, which are not encyclopedia content. I do see a complete staff list, which is not encyclopedia content. I do see a complete list of weapons and ranks, again not encyclopedia content. If there are multiple reliable source publications by people independent of the game about it, try writing a new article in accordance with the suggestions at Wikipedia:Amnesia test, using only those independent publications. If that is a decent article, then fill it out with encyclopedic content from the game's published documents, not with game guide materials. The old article will not be a helpful starting point as no independent sources were used and too much of the content does not belong in an encyclopedia. GRBerry 02:11, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion as per GRBerry. --Duke of Duchess Street 14:45, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Bought Science – Copyright violation, unencyclopaedic content, unreliable source – Guy (Help!) 20:57, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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IMHO, this page should not have faced speedy deletion by Jeffrey O. Gustafson. If pages such as Junk science and Sound science can exist on Wiki, then surely one for Bought science should be. Bought science is neither any more of a neologism, nor a POV, than "Junk science" or "Sound science" is, as Jeffrey alleges. NorthMiamiBeach 13:33, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Bought science" only gets about 2000 hits on Google (the neologism half), and the text of the article irrelevantly goes into the issues you bring up in your POV essay listed below (the POV part of the equation). Wikipedia is not a venue to air your grievances with the PMRA. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 13:51, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You claim I have grievances with the PMRA? Not so, that's unfounded. These are very real concerns by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (Charles Caccia report entitled: "Pesticides: Making the Right Choice", May 16, 2000) and Canada's Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Johanne Gelinas (all cited in the PMRA article). As for rapid deletion by claiming it is POV, well, isn't that's a fine way to censor anything that one disagrees with!--NorthMiamiBeach 14:02, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I do not disagree with your opinion (nor do I agree with it). I do disagree with your attempts at trying to inject your opinion into Wikipedia, both through this article and the POV essay I deleted (see below). --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 14:13, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Problems with the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) – Copyright violation, unencyclopaedic content, unreliable source – Guy (Help!) 20:57, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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I question why this page faced speedy deletion. It was not patent nonsense, nor advertising, nor a personal attack page, but rather a well written and researched article critical of the PMRA. If other Wikipedia pages can exist that are critical to issues such as global warming (i.e. the movie an Inconvenient Truth etc), or Criticisms to the 911 Movie "Loose Change" (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loose_Change_%28video%29#Criticism ), then surely one critical of the PRMA should also be allowed to exist, without being deleted. I would appreciate a Wikipedia panel review on this matter. NorthMiamiBeach 12:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If not a copyvio, it is an unencyclopedic essay. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 13:03, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It is not a copy violation, as I hold authorship rights. As for "unencyclopedic", that is not a qualification for speedy deletion. It is my opinion that my article is of merit and should not be deleted. --NorthMiamiBeach 13:15, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Thanks for the link on 'What Wiki is not...' Upon reviewing that, I fail to see the PMRA article as being a personal essay. Rather, the article references the works of others who share the opinions that the PMRA is problematic, i.e. Canada's Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Johanne Gelinas... etc)--NorthMiamiBeach 13:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, egregious soapboxing, original research and a neologism, all from a single-purpose account. Guy (Help!) 15:51, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse CopyVio Deletion It is a copy of [44] (to the point of having identical typos), which is licensed under a Creative Commons license that does not allow derivative works or commercial use. Award deleter a cookie for spotting this, and a trout for not saying what it was a copyvio of. Additionally, we shouldn't have an article on criticism of X, without first having an article on X. The PMRA is one small branch of Health Canada, and does not yet have an article. And an article on criticism of X should not be at a title beginning "Problems with". GRBerry 16:19, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Ooh, extra bonus of being a non-reliable source; on the site's legal disclaimer they say " The information is not guaranteed to be accurate, nor does The Coalition for a Healthy Ottawa take responsibility for it. The information comes from other sources and therefore may be wholly unreliable, and CHO does not guarantee its suitability for any purpose." GRBerry 16:50, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Adam Keller court martial – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 07:43, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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(1) The court martial is notable because (a) Court matialsPolitical court matials are rare events in Israel, and normally do not occur more than once in 10 years, (b) the court martial was covered in all the main newspapers in Israel at the time including the English language Jerusalem Post and the Arabic Al-Ittihad and was recently referred to by the British Guardian.

(2) The deletion was an Wikipedia:Deletion_policy#Abuse_of_deletion_process. The proposer of the deletion (User:Yellow up) makes no attempt to hide his disgust at the actions of Adam Kellner describing Kellner as "irrelevant" and using the term "military evaders". The proposer made a number of incorrect assertions to back up his request for undeltion. User:Yellow up is entitled to his oppinion of Israeli dissidents and their actions. And I imagine that in the highly polarised atmosphere surrounding the Arab/Israeli conflict many Israelis share his opinion. But the deletion policy clearly states that "XfD (deletion) processes are not a way to complain or remove material that is personally disliked, whose perspective is against ones beliefs, or which is not yet presented neutrally."

The deletion discussion did raise sime problems with the way the article was written. But these should be handled by fixing the article rather than deleting it. Abu ali 10:08, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse deletion for now, unless you can present some solid evidence like citations that this was actually covered in major papers. That was brought up in the AFD, but ultimately there wasn't evidence for it. I recognize many of the other participants arguing for deletion as AfD regulars whose opinions necessarily count in determining consensus, even if we were to disregard the nominator. I agree that notable content should be fixed rather than deleted, but you've got to prove it's notable first.--Kchase T 11:53, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Fair point. The problem is that the court martial occured in 1988, before papers had archives on the internet. The bigger libraries in Israel would contain hard copies of back issued of the relevant issues, and I hope that given time, some of our Israeli editors will dig out concrete citations. In the mean time we can start with the following article in the Guardian [[45]]. Abu ali 12:41, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Here's an article that might help: [46] --NE2 16:08, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • The link NE2 provided gives a number of citations: Jerusalem Post Dec 19 1995, Ha'aretz (May 6, 1988) and Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Dec 1, 2004. Many thanks to NE2! Abu ali 16:20, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • It was a valid closure, but more sources is enough to permit relisting for discussion in the proper forum. Given Keller's history of writing about himself, this will probably need to be policed for sourcing to make sure nobody inserts their own memory of the events in question.--Kchase T 20:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
            • I provisionally restored and compared diffs. The subject wrote virtually all of the content and all the other editors just made minor changes. The single reference was added in the last edit to the article. Whatever salvageable content exists should be replaced when someone re-writes this with a proper range of sources. I return to endorsing deletion.--Kchase T 12:10, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
              • But if I or anyone else recreates the article, it will probably be speedily deleted according to policy. Or am I misundersanding the policy here? Abu ali 13:42, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
                • You should be ok. The existence of this DRV insulates you some from that. G4 doesn't apply to content that is "merely a new article on the same subject", and I think we're establishing here that it actually is notable, even if the AFD was valid.--Kchase T 13:48, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist Some referencing was added on the 5th day of the AFD, and not discussed by any of the delete opiners (the only later one said "delete per all", which is useless. More newspaper sources found and mentioned here, one of which has "155 related", so clearly got widespread coverage at that time (but I'm not going to pay to read all those to see whether it was a single wire story covered widely or several wire stories, or actual articles by each paper). Relist for an evaluation of the sources in the proper forum. GRBerry 16:46, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Deletion. The closer properly determined that the argument that this is vanity spam to make a point was not refuted. The fact of some coverage in a newspaper is not a requirement that an article be kept (if it is, we will theoretically eventually end up with literally a million articles on passing events). I did not comment in the original AfD but this article is clearly way, way too much information about an ephemeral event and was close properly in my opinion. Herostratus 21:32, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion as process was properly followed, and besides, the right thing to do from an editorial standpoint is to let someone who is not Adam Keller write this article. JChap2007 00:30, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weakly endorse deletion (process was apparently carried out reasonably), without prejudice against WP:NPOV and WP:V recreation by someone who isn't Adam Keller nor someone acting on his behalf (nor someone acting against him). I would be in favor of a Relist if the closing admin finds the new sources sufficient for that. I don't know many of the facts, especially whether major magazines have included featured coverage that shows probable "lasting influence" as compared to "only passing attention". Wikipedia is not Wikinews and doesn't need to cover every once-a-decade controversy unless the topic has significant historical effect upon its field. Barno 01:30, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • But some of the sources cited above are 15 years after the event. Surely this shows that that the court-martial recieved more than pasing attention? Abu ali 08:52, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Not automatically; it depends upon the content. Many newspapers and magazines have small-print filler sections of what went on five, ten, fifteen, twenty years ago. If the newer articles demonstrate that the court-martial itself had a lot of lasting influence, then (when properly cited) they should help the relist end as "Keep". If they only show it drew attention as part of the broader situation, and didn't drive much change or serve as the focus for a popular movement, then the reviewing editors should support a merge to some article like "Anti-war protest in Israel". Barno 04:20, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hmmmmmm. I think that a brief article on this subject could be supported, based on the few available sources that satisfy Wikipedia rules. The article in the form that was deleted was not acceptable because it did not pass the verifiability rules. Mr Keller's personal recollections are interesting, but we are required to only add material that comes from published sources and cited so that other people can check those sources. I would think that a new article which obeys the rules would probably survive deletion attempts. It would be much briefer though. Incidentally, here is the complete text relevant to the Keller case that appeared in JP 19 Dec 1995, p6: "According to Ha'aretz (May 6, 1988), Peace Now activist Adam Keller vandalized Israeli army tanks during his tour of reserve duty, to protest Israel's presence in the territories." It isn't any use for article writing, and isn't even acceptable as a source in my opinion because it is actually a letter to the editor from the chairman of Americans for a Safe Israel. There seems to be a much more useful article in JP, 25 Feb 1990 but I can't read it due to a database error. --Zerotalk 03:33, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment "Court martials are rare events in Israel, and normally do not occur more than once in 10 years" - if this were true, either the IDF must be by an incredible margin the best-disciplined military in the world or enforcement of IDF regulations is very lax. However, even leaving aside the other violations of military regulations that one may be court martialled for, being court martialled for violation of regulations in the name of conscientious objection while a member of the IDF is a much more frequent event than is suggested by the petitioner. According to the Courage to Refuse campaign over 280 IDF members who are part of the campaign have been court martialled for refusing to serve in occupied Palestinian territories since 2002 Bwithh 21:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thanks for pointing out an error in my original statement. I should have said political court matials. Mr Keller was kind enough to answer my query on this question and I will take the liberty of quoting his rely here.

      There are two systems of judging soldiers. "Disciplinary proceeding" by a commanding officer, held in camera in his bureau without lawyers or witenesses and with the punishment restricted to 28 days, is very common. A full court martial, with three judges of whom at least one must be a jurist, which is held in public with lawyers and witnesses and press coverage, can give a much longer sentence but it can (and is) used for political speeches and gets considerable attention.That is why the army resorts to it only once a decade or so, and each case is memorable, is noticed by the press and by peace activists who make an effort to be present. The 280 cases that are refered to are of "disciplinary" instant trials in camera, not full court martials. The army does often use the full court martial against soldiers who broke discipline for non-political reasons (for example, desertion, being rude to an officer etc.). In non-political cases, the army feels free because they get no press attention.

      Abu ali 09:23, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion as above. From searching around, an article on Adam Keller himself focusing much more on his role as a Israeli peace activist would seem to be more appropriate. From Factiva (which goes back to 1988 (though the further back you go, the patchier it gets - 1988 is very patchy at the moment)), there are a number articles mentioning Keller , and the one or two which are profiles of him mention the court martials but don't treat them as the defining or key reason why he's significant, so I don't think an article just about his court martial is in order. Bwithh 22:05, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I would agree that the court martial is not Keller's most significant event in his long history in the peace movement. But that does not necessarily imply that the court martial is not notable. We have seen above that the court matial is turing up in references 15 years after the event [[47]]. Whether Keller as an individual is notable and whether an article about him should be written is an interesting question, but not the one which we are discussing here. Abu ali 08:44, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restore The event is certainly notable. It is covered in the standard literature on the Intifada – eg in Andrew Rigby,"Living the Intifada" (Zed Press, 1991), p 185. Rigby cites Al-Fajr 26 February 1990. The trial was covered in the Israeli press, but it is even harder finding a twenty-year old Hebrew article than an English one; the Haaretz online archive, for instance, goes back only to 1994.
The event is notable not only in terms of the Israel-Palestine conflict, and of the Israeli peace movement; it is remarkable in anyone's terms. Writing graffiti on 117 tanks, as well as the officers' mess and toilets — and a long slogan too, not just one or two words — is surely unprecedented in peace and protest movements anywhere.
In fact, I think that Adam Keller deserves a Wikipedia article of his own. He is the spokesperson of Gush Shalom, the editor of The Other Israel, a long-standing activist in Yesh Gvul, a pioneer of Israeli meetings with the PLO, and author of the excellent study of Israel "Terrible Days". And if we do this, the court martial (and his other spells in gaol) will certainly be relevant. RolandR 23:44, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Do we have a rought consensus that the court-martial was a notable event? If so the main argument for deletion is that the article's subject made many of the edits himslef. This is discouraged by the policy WP:AB. The WP:Autobiography policy states

    You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Wikipedia has gone through many prolonged disputes about the significance, factual accuracy, and neutrality of such articles, including one about Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia [1]. Refraining from such editing is therefore important in maintaining Wikipedia's neutral stance and in avoiding the appearance of POV-pushing. This does not mean, however, that it is impossible to write a neutral, verifiable autobiography, or that they are strictly forbidden.

(my emphasis added). Keller should have refrained from writing an article about an event which he was so personally involved in. But if you examine his edits to the article you will find that he was absolutely meticulous in maintaining a neutral point of view and avoiding any form of self-aggrandizement. In fact a large part of the article is made up of direct quotation of the arguments of the military prosecutor. I therefore think that undeleting the article would be the best course of action. It would allow the sources uneathed in this discussion to be added and allow the article to be ruthelessly purged of anything which fails WP:NPOV or Wikipedia:Verifiability. Abu ali 10:28, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I think it would be a viable option to restore this as a redirect to Adam Keller and you can create an article on the person and canabilize material from the old version of this article and properly source it as you go (thus addressing GFDL concerns about keeping the edit history there to preserve attribution history). I'm not comfortable keeping any of the author's version unless it gets properly sourced, but if you want to do that, more power to you. I'd just feel better if that happened slowly as a new article gets built, rather than being restored in full and then potentially have little unsourced bits remain.--Kchase T 12:08, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have now created an article on Adam Keller. It is a stub, which needs more work. But the bare bones are there, including reference to the court martial. He is certainly a notable-enough person to merit a Wikipedia entry. RolandR 13:41, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • new article its clear from the comments above that the matter in N, and that RS are present, because the discussion has moved on to the qy of the actions of the IDF. . But, Roland R has the solution--for others than RK to do an article on RK, affording him the usual BLP courtesies. This article will be more suitable than the old one in all respects. DGG 06:35, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that we seem to have a consensus about notability and reliable sources regarding the court-martial. I would also agree that the subject of the court martial is notable enough for a biographical article. But the question of whether these two articles should be merged is something that I have not been convinced about, and is really a separate discussion. Abu ali 15:51, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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List of syndicated broadcasters of Futurama – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 07:44, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The article was split from the main Futurama article in accordance with Wikipedia:Summary style, I don't have time to check Wikipedia all the time as I have a life, so I was not able to bring this point up in the AFD discussion. Suoerh2 07:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • If Wikipedia intends for people to follow it's policies, then deleting this article sends the wrong message. Pretty soon people will not want to split off sections from long articles into new articles for fear that some Wikipedian who has no idea what he is talking about finds the new article, thinks its "trivial" and deletes it. Sometimes, with summary style, your going to get article that aren't full of a huge amount of content, but that is just something you have to live with if you want to use the summary style. If nothing else, then please restore the text of the article to the Futurama page (where is lived for a long time with no problem) and let the editors of that page decide if the information belongs or not, not some elistish snobby Wikipedians who troll deletion review (thats what they are). Suoerh2 08:30, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: Please be reminded that Deletion review is not AFD round 2. The deletion review is more about judging process than result. Could you indicate why you believe that certain processes were not followed properly? Is there any information that was not considered during the AFD? AecisBravado 10:48, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. This reminds me of arguments against deleting fancruft which follow the lines of "But we split this out from the main article, so it must be good!" -Amark moo! 15:59, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse my deletion per unanimous AFD. --Coredesat 17:39, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion Unanimous AFD. Not a TV guide was the prod reason. After you had the article undeleted as an after the fact contested prod, you should have improved the article to address the concern. This was not done in the fortnight after the article was restored, the AFD was unanimous, and the argument offered here does not constitute a reason for keeping the content - it is either appropriate for an encyclopedia or not, and whether it started as a separate list or was spun out from the main article isn't relevant. Content that won't survive spun out as a sub-article probably shouldn't exist in the main article either. GRBerry 18:04, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion per WP:SNOW, if nothing else. The nom offered WP:NOT, which is core policy, as a deletion reason and it includes TV guide as one of the things that Wikipedia is not. (WP:V seems invalid, as this information would be easy to verify through TV listings) However, it would make me more comfortable if the nom had noted that "TV guide" was the specific thing that WP was not and if all of the !votes had not been "per nom." JChap2007 00:25, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • remerge the pertinent material into main article--if it was removed for fear the main article was overlong but it has been found that by itself it is not sufficient. If anyone objects to it being there, cite this DelRev. DGG 06:38, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure of this unanimous discussion. If the editors at the main article decide (on the article's Talk page) that there is consensus to bring this detail back in, it can be merged and redirected via a history-only undeletion (above). Until they reach such consensus, leave the page deleted. Rossami (talk) 20:25, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Charles C. Poindexter – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 07:46, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Notable Subject. Reasonable amount of time for expansion. Passes Google test and founder of group that became prominant fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha. [48] Notability was established at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Charles_C._Poindexter. MrDouglass 01:30, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Sigh. It was a legitimate G5 when the sock made it, who initiated the creation after that, because those G4s are a problem for me. If it's not a sock/banned user who recreated the G4 deletions, undelete. If it was, can I request userfication to clean it up and make it legit, since "notability" appears to be established in the linked AfD? --badlydrawnjeff talk 01:51, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Our DRV nominator has done all three recreations. I have no basis for an opinion whether G5 would still apply, although I can see that others are suspicious, I don't have the knowledge base to tell myself because my mop is still too clean and shiny. If you think notability was shown, I hope that means the AFD revealed adequate sources, and you could just use them. GRBerry 02:40, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong undelete. G4 does not apply to speedies, and if it did, it certainly would not apply to a speedy criteria that doesn't even judge the article. -Amark moo! 02:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I was one of the deleting admins. I have a very strong suspicion that MrDouglass is, in fact, a sock of a banned user, Mykungfu, since he showed up less than 24 hours after the article was first deleted and the then-most-recent sock of Mykungfu was blocked and re-created the article. That's not a coincidence. His first edit to another mainspace article was to Ku Klux Klan; one of Mykungfu's earlier socks was McGrandWizard (Grand Wizard is the title of the head of the KKK). I have no objection to undeletion per se, but to another attempt by Mykungfu to game the system. | Mr. Darcy talk 02:39, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Surely it does matter. Banned or blocked users are not allowed to create articles; it's speedy deletion criterion G5. | Mr. Darcy talk 04:06, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well MrDarcy has now listed MrDouglass as a sockpuppet of Mykungfu. [49]

Lets see if there is any valid proof with this one. 172.164.250.29 21:00, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Quite fortunately, G5 does not apply to suspicions. If it is established that he is a banned user, it's different (although I'd likely just ditch G5 then, since it looks decent), but suspecting who a user is is irrelevant. -Amark moo! 04:09, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You are mistaken. Proof by contributions is more than sufficient, and the user's contribs have made it clear to me from day one that it is Mykungfu. Proof by checkuser is not required, and in this case, since Mykungfu and all of his socks use AOL, it's not possible. | Mr. Darcy talk 04:33, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Undelete just so other users know what G3,G4 and other terms are.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion . If MrDarcy suspects me to be racist. Simply go thru my edits and see if you find any racially biased edits. Also, i thank everyone who will supports this articles undeletions. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MrDouglass (talkcontribs) 04:23, 26 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]
from "His first edit to another mainspace article was to Ku Klux Klan; one of Mykungfu's earlier socks was McGrandWizard (Grand Wizard is the title of the head of the KKK)." of the above opinion. MrDouglass 04:28, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • There's not much to undelete, just a short paragraph with a lot of weasel words and sourced solely with questionable copyright material from skipmason.com via the Google cache. Guy (Help!) 08:24, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The Game (game) – Speedy close, no new information – 05:30, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
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The Game has previously been deleted from Wikipedia because it was not previously verifiable. However, The Game has now been published on its own web site, http://ilostthegame.org. Does this web site dedicated to The Game suffice? Hamz01 03:49, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Liz Rettig – Userfied to requestor's sandbox – 23:27, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
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  • Published author listed on Amazon with two books, deleted within 10 minutes of its creation even though two editors were developing it. Rklawton 21:07, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse A7 Valid, if awful fast, A7 deletion. I'd be willing to userfy to your space if that would close this. The original posting was obviously a WP:COI problem, given the name of the creator. Your edit probably looked like a wikification edit. GRBerry 21:14, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Question - She's got over 2000 g-hits and quite a few reviews, so how does she fail A7? Note: COI isn't grounds for a speedy. Rklawton 21:38, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • WP:CSD#A7 is a test of the article, not of the subject. All of the speedy deletion criteria are meant to be testable just by looking at evidence on Wikipedia. I'm starting to feel we've gotten too aggressive about A7 and G11, hence I currently support loosening the undeletion policy as it relates to these criteria. Looking again at the timestamps on the deleted history, I'm not sure the deleting admin even saw your edit; it was the same minute as the deletion so I suspect they were looking at the edit you almost nominated for speedy deletion. That, paraphrased was roughly "Name is a writer, most famous for writing X and Y. She lives with her family. Plot content for X." COI isn't grounds for a speedy, but when an article looks like an A7 it makes peoples trigger fingers itchier. You don't have a COI, so I'm willing to userfy it. Do you want it? GRBerry 22:28, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Young Hot Rod – Deletion endorsed, recreation in userspace recommended – trialsanderrors 07:24, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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How many times do I have to tell you, he IS TOO notable! I mean, he is signed to G-Unit Records as well as Interscope (Spider Loc isn't part of Interscope, yet you have a page on him}, his single Be Easy, charted on the Billboard charts (Top R&B/Hip-Hop), and if you google him, there are several notable sources. Undelete, but if that's not possible, Unprotect, so someone with better info can recreate it. Tom Danson 20:21, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Endorse deletion and salting. I don't see evidence here that he meets WP:MUSIC, and it doesn't appear that "Be Easy" charted (Billboard's Web site does not show him having any charting singles or albums). And Mr. Danson, watch your tone. | Mr. Darcy talk 20:43, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: According to the very last version of the article, "His debut album ... is scheduled to be released. ... The first single of the album is called "Be Easy" and features Mary J. Blige." There's not a single assertion of notability in the article. What I also find remarkable is that version uses itself as a reference, while citing it as AOL Music. And a final thing: according to the AfD'd version, Young Hot Rod was born in Sacramento. According to the final version he was born in Phoenix. Which is it? AecisBravado 20:47, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep protected and come back after writing in userspace. The AFD was properly closed. Between the two article's logs (original and new), I see a half dozen deletions of recreated content to start from a favorable assumption about what will happen to a blank page. So, go write a reliably sourced (and cited!) article at a user subpage, then bring it here for review. I recommend applying the amnesia test method of writing. GRBerry 20:57, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, valid AfD. Tom, you only have to tell us once that he "is too notable", but you have to bring reliable sources. Nothing else actually matters much: no sources, no article. Try that in userspace. Guy (Help!) 21:03, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Here's three independent sources: [50] [51] [52], probably more info on his website. I can write a stub in userspace if that is still necessary. Recury 21:41, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Alela Diane – Overturned and listed at AfDtrialsanderrors 07:27, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Alela Diane is an up-and-coming artist of renown, for whom at some point soon there will clearly need to be an article. She is already cross referenced in the psych folk and New Weird America articles. She currently has 47,000 Google hits (up from 45K yesterday), is touring in the US, and shortly in the UK. She has an All Music Guide entry. I suspect that one factor in the summary deletion of the article may have been the references to her early work being self-published. However, her album has now been issued internationally to widespread acclaim, as evidenced by a simple Google search which will show numerous positive reviews, establishing her importance as a singer-songwriter. Information should be made available on this current artist who is in the process of becoming one of international renown. Ghmyrtle 13:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Undelete. Avid readers of DRV may wish to know that "up-and-coming" in this context can be backed up by mentions in the New York Times ("And that's not to mention promising artists like Alela Diane ...") and other papers, not just the usual MySpace stuff. Without seeing the history it's hard to be quite sure, but based on the available sources, and Ghmyrtle's solid track record when it comes to creating music articles, I suggest undeleting ASAP. Angus McLellan (Talk) 15:56, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Undelete. A quick Google news search suggests she might meet WP:MUSIC on that note, and she has toured nationally and will be touring internationally, so this doesn't really seem to be a question. --badlydrawnjeff talk 16:07, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Undelete/Recreate Without seeing the original article (I can't find a cache or mirror on Google), I can't speak to its state, but the sources and assertions made here (touring, NYTimes) clearly put her above the A7 standard. Eluchil404 16:09, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Part of history restored for review. I restored only the 2007 versions, the 2006 versions met WP:CSD#A7 and add no evidence of notability. GRBerry 16:36, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: The original version had no claims of notability and no sources. No objection to rewrite with sourced claims. User:Zoe|(talk) 18:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • List Looking more closely at the restored history, this was obviously a contentious speedy deletion. A speedy deletion tag had been added and removed by the same user previously. They had decided the article should be kept. Contentious A7s should be taken to AFD. Article in its current form is unlikely to survive AFD unless the sources are available. Hint, hint... GRBerry 20:47, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and List at afd Shouldn't have been speedied as article has basic claim to notability. Being in the All Music Guide (low barriers to entry) and a passing mention in the New York Times are not reliable indicators of encyclopedic notability however. Also, it is said that there has been an international release - but I cannot find non-import versions of her latest album on Amazon UK or even Amazon Canada. List at afd and let's get things sorted out. Bwithh 00:01, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Uh, what basic claim of notability? Please point it out to me in Alela Diane is a part of the pysch folk scene. Hailing from Northern California town Nevada City, Alela grew up singing songs with her parents (both musicians), and performing in the school choir. During a stay in San Francisco in 2003, she began teaching herself guitar and writing her first songs. These soon caught the attention of friend and fellow Nevada City native Joanna Newsom, who in turn invited Alela to play her first live show. She resides, with her cat, in Portland,OR.. User:Zoe|(talk) 00:24, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Zoe, I'd restored the portion of the edit history that is being contested. What you quoted is last year's versions, that remain deleted and aren't being contested. I probably caused this by only partially restoring. The claim, I think, is the release of two albums, at least one of which has come out on a label instead of just being self published. By WP:MUSIC standards, (much lower than mine), that is a claim, but not itself a claim high enough to meet WP:MUSIC, which requires more of the releases than was in the article. But failing to meet WP:NOTE/WP:MUSIC/WP:BIO isn't the speedy deletion standard, failing to make a claim is. GRBerry 00:51, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • What GRBerry said + I typically do a quick check on google and related links before I will nominate for CSD in order to satisfy the recommendation "Before nominating an article for speedy deletion, consider whether an article could be improved or reduced to a stub" on WP:CSD. While the Holocene Music label is a very small one, there is initial evidence on their page for the album suggesting possible/debatable encyclopedically significant media coverage of the album[53] Bwithh 01:49, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • OK, sorry, I apologize, I didn't catch that there were two versions. However, the new version only mentions one released album, doesn't that fail WP:MUSIC? User:Zoe|(talk) 22:01, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I have revised the original article to include more evidence of notability and placed it for the time being at User_talk:Ghmyrtle. The suggestion made earlier that her album has not been released in the UK is incorrect; it is available at Amazon.co.uk (not as an import), as is her more recent vinyl release. I'd be grateful to be kept informed of the process from now on, as luckily this question of notability has not arisen with any of my previous articles. Ghmyrtle 11:54, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Correction - it is an import to UK, but readily available. Incidentally, the criterion of being released by a "major label" or even an "important indie" is surely an anachronism in this era of downloads, when (in UK at least) musicians can make the charts through downloads alone without being signed to any label ... ? (Not for this forum, I know...).Ghmyrtle 14:11, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • undelete I dont think there was the intent to be unfair, but it seems to have turned out that way.DGG 06:41, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Assburger syndrome – Löschung bestätigt (deletion endorsed) – trialsanderrors 07:22, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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  • I would like to ask that the people who based their "endorse deletion" !votes on it not being a plausible misspelling be discounted, because they are continually repeating proven-incorrect assumptions about how the name is properly pronounced, and have not responded when challenged. This is not a vote. --Random832(tc) 14:08, 30 January 2007 (UTC) In other words, OF COURSE "Assburger" isn't a plausible misspelling of "az-PAIR-gher" - which is immaterial because "Asperger" isn't pronounced "az-PAIR-gher".[reply]

I think there is substantial evidence that this exists as an innocent misspelling, and the presence of a so-called "bad word" should not have automatically caused it to be seen as disparaging and used as a reason to delete the redirect. Random832 13:38, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I think the controversy at Redirects to Asperger syndrome is grounds for a speedy relist at the very least. —Random8322007-01-26 13:44 UTC (01/26 08:44 EST)

  • There is a related deletion discussion at Redirects to Asperger syndrome
  • Comments from talk page: "I hate to do this but i am beginning to wonder whether i should have nominated it each time it appeared. Yes it seems to be a personal attack (at least my POV) but i am finding it not uncommon in web search. Simply south 20:21, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yeah, Google redirects it. It's an offensive term, but would still be a pretty functional redirect. Philwelch 05:25, 11 January 2007 (UTC) -- —Random8322007-01-25 13:49 UTC (01/25 08:49 EST)[reply]
  • Relevant discussion at User talk:Omnivore Oprah. Note that Simply south is incorrect here; the proper way to pronounce it [55] is indeed with a hard /g/ that could easily be misheard as this redirect, NOT with /dƷ/ as Simply south seems to believe. —Random8322007-01-25 13:58 UTC (01/25 08:58 EST)
    • Comment: Further down the aspergers talk page i have also put on a section on pronounciation. Here in the UK, it is common to use a soft g and it is pronounced officially like this. I say it has and indistinguishable p or b sound. Simply south 17:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I really hate to say this, but Restore. For someone who casually hears the term and does not know the correct spelling, this is actually a pretty likely guess. As a likely vandalism target, it might be a good idea to protect the redirect. Fan-1967 15:28, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted, nothing but a puerile joke. >Radiant< 15:46, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment I don't think the motive behind its creation is particularly relevant, only whether the end result improves the encyclopedia. —Random8322007-01-25 16:30 UTC (01/25 11:30 EST)
  • Protect the redirect, but restore as a likely misspelling. This is exactly how it is pronounced. -Amark moo! 15:50, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion According to US dictionary sites [56] (Merriam-Webster) [57](American National Heritage), the correct pronounciation is As-perger's (hard p not b, and hard g) not "Assburgers". Wikitionary's (possibly unreliable) entry has a UK pronunciation which is the same but with a soft g[58] (this UK Asperger's Syndrome site suggests "Ass-pairghers" (hard g)[59]). I don't see the need for Wikipedia to cater and coddle for every kind of misspelling and mispronunciation out there ("Assburger Sindroam", "Bifpairgher") - we already assume that users are able to handle a computer keyboard/mouse and an internet interface. Bwithh 16:55, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment Unlike syndrome, Asperger is not a familiar word. Also, /p/ and /b/ are identical in most dialects when placed after an /s/. I'm not sure why you noted the hard g, since that's also present in the pronunciation of the redirect. And, anyway, it's not a mispronunciation because they are pronounced the same, and it's not just any misspelling, it's the only spelling that consists of common english words whose pronunciation EXACTLY match the proper pronunciation --Random8322007-01-25 17:01 UTC (01/25 12:01 EST)
      • Comment I would say less than 10% of the people I know are careful enough in their diction that one could easily hear the difference between "aspbergers" properly pronounced and "assburgers". How it should be pronounced, and how it commonly is, are two different things. Fan-1967 18:55, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment from deleting admin. I speedied this as a clear attack page. Common sense should tell any user that "Assburger" isn't right, and I don't think Wikipedia should include anything that appears to be making fun of mental illness. | Mr. Darcy talk 16:58, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • comment: Common sense won't tell them what actual the proper spelling is, and they might figure that a pronunciation spelling for an unfamiliar word will have been created as a redirect. —Random8322007-01-25 17:02 UTC (01/25 12:02 EST) PS once I actually clicked the link it turns out "pronunciation spelling" is not the right term. Is it sufficiently clear, though, what I meant? (as for "appears to be making fun of mental illness"; I have this condition and I wasn't offended. As it happens, if anything I'm more offended by your use of the term "mental illness". But, of course, you don't have to believe me. —Random8322007-01-25 17:05 UTC (01/25 12:05 EST))
  • I have started a fairly similar discussion to this on the Aspergers talk page. See both talk:Asperger syndrome#Assburger issue and talk:Asperger syndrome#Pronounciation. Simply south 17:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Deletion I don't think any reader with an ounce of common sense would spell anything phonically if it clearly appeared to be a nonsensical, compound slang word. The mere presence of this redirect insults the intelligence of any person that goes on Wikipedia. Yanksox 18:27, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. Yanksox said all that needed to be said, and if common sense was actually common then we wouldn't need even that. --Sam Blanning(talk) 19:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Common sense isn't that common. Even if someone knows "assburger" can't be right, they may well have no idea what the right spelling is. We still ought to make it possible for them to find the right page. Fan-1967 21:17, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • That logic would lead to an indefinite number of redirects. We can help users who don't know the exact spelling of "Asperger's" without resorting to infantile jokes about the disorder. | Mr. Darcy talk 22:02, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • How? If someone heard a reference on TV to something that sounds like "assburger" (and I've heard what sounded like that pronunciation dozens of times), and they were curious to get information on it, how would they find the article? Fan-1967 23:07, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restore as redirect - It's definitely a likely misspelling. --adavidw 19:59, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restore as redirect per Fan-1967. Flyingtoaster1337 05:11, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. I'd like anyone who claims that nobody with an ounce of common sense would think they heard correctly to visit this town please. -Amark moo! 05:26, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Too lame; didn't read. Tossing a coin can settle this, unless it really needs to come to pistols at dawn over a mondegreen redirect. You couldn't make it up. Angus McLellan (Talk) 11:06, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted. Grow up. Proto:: 11:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restore and protect Readers looking for a term will likely enter what a term sounds like and expect to be redirected, like on Google. Until the Wikimedia software allows for improved search capabilities, there is no better answer than to create redirects for what the titles of articles "sound like," no matter how puerile. If people are really worried about this being an attack on the mentally ill, a protected redirect will at least stop it being an attack article. JChap2007 00:41, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restore I can't understand the argument that this redirect should be deleted because it is a stupid phrase. I have a real hard time searching things that I don't know the specific name of on wikipedia and redirects are one of the better solutions where there is a similar sounding phrase that is a realistic search term. MLA 12:57, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Deletion a redirect that's not a likely spelling mistake and insensitive as well.-- danntm T C 19:54, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restore, and protect if wanted/necessary. I do think that there is probably a marginal possibility that one will mishear it, but it greatly outweighs any actual negative effects (which deletors have failed to point out.) Abeg92contribs 03:59, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion - This "innocent misspelling" involves three sound changes, with the first one being the difference between a "z" sound and a soft "s" sound. I also have difficulty with the change of "e" to u", and while the "p" to "b" switch is plausible it none-the-less completes the transformation from of the name of a syndrome into an insult derived from it. IMO, if someone is that lost then they are best off going to autism and linking to the article from there while gleaning the correct spelling. I therefore fail to see how the process did not work in this case. IMO, a judgement call had to made on this one, and it was. --EMS | Talk 02:53, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • the so-called '"e" to "u"' is actually ə (no change), and the "s" is in the original pronunciation, I don't know WHERE you're getting "z" from. And someone having heard it in a conversation might not know it's a variant of autism. —Random8322007-01-29 16:23 UTC (01/29 11:23 EST)
    • Like he said. Where I live, an "s" is never pronounced like a "z", "bur" and "ber" are pronounced exactly the same way, and same with "sp" and "sb". -Amark moo! 02:24, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. It's not a plausible spelling mistake. YechielMan 04:26, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • endorse deletion essentially because I think that the case for deletion in the first place was a good one. DGG 06:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion Asperger's syndrome is not a joke, and the closing admin tok the right decision.--Newport 13:41, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I don't agree that the redirect is intended as a joke - it is a VERY plausible misspelling (NOT a mispronunciation. That list of sound changes it supposedly requires is patent nonsense. We're supposed to believe that it's "properly" pronounced with /zp/? I'd like to see a minimal pair of that with either /sp/ or /zb/) --Random832(tc) 13:44, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. If it stays, will it really hurt anyone? I mean, can't we give it the benefit of the doubt? Abeg92contribs 02:09, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn closure and restore the redirect. This was clearly created in good faith both the first time (here) and as a redirect. It is a plausible misspelling based on phonetic transcription of the correct name and is exactly what redirects are designed for. To answer MrDarcy's concern above, we don't go randomly creating redirects for every possible misspelling but once one has been created in good faith, we keep them around. As the old saying goes, "redirects are cheap." Restoring the redirect would also be consistent with the emerging consensus at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2007 January 23#Redirects to Asperger syndrome. Rossami (talk) 20:12, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. It doesn't matter how it's "properly" pronounced, if it's meant to be a redirect from a mispronunciation. What matters is how it is pronounced. Calling for people's opinions that it's a reasonable error to make to be discounted is weird. -Amark moo! 02:22, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I'm the only one who's called for anyone's !votes to be discounted, and it's the ones who are saying that it's NOT a reasonable error who I think should be ignored, because THEY are making up random pronunciations to say how different this "mispronunciation" is from it and therefore implausible. /zp/, honestly? --Random832(tc) 02:31, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think I'd be comatose from reading this if'n for the language course. It's a hard "g" btw. ~ trialsanderrors 07:22, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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List of transfers of Serie A - 2007/2008 season – relisted at AFDGRBerry 02:13, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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No reason given by closing admin. WP:CRYSTAL was cited by many delete proponents, however, content was referenced and citations inserted. A message left on the closing admin's talk page has gone unanswered. Neier 12:12, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

    • Was that concensus after discarding the WP:CRYSTAL arguments? All but one delete comment (plus the nominator) mentioned speculative or WP:CRYSTAL. After most of those arguments had been made, documenting evidence was added to the article proving that it was neither speculative, nor WP:CRYSTAL. That is why I brought this to review. Neier 14:23, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm just saying please don't expect me to give a reason. --Majorly (talk) 15:42, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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ProductWiki – Deletion endorsed among established editors – 06:53, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
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I recently discovered the ProductWiki article was deleted from Wikipedia. I read the debate that lead to the deletion, and feel that the comments in the debate were unfair and inaccurate. I am a co-founder of ProductWiki, and we are not a spam wiki, nor new, nor an insignificant wiki. We have been growing for over 1 year, and have 13,000 products contributed by our community of almost 2,000 members. We provide a voice for the consumer, and have chosen the wiki format as the best medium.

As per the WP:WEB Web notability criteria, we meet criteria #1. We have been sourced multiple times in published works, including Popular Science magazine (both print and online), the Kitchener Record, and in Ben McConnell's latest book Citizen Marketers. Ekkalvia 15:25, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment The Popular Science link appears to be incorrect; it is totally unrelated.The Popular Science link gives only passing mentions. The Kitchener Record link was in the deleted article. "Mentioned in" is not the WP:WEB standard, "been the subject of" is. The amazon link doesn't help us know the extent of that book's coverage. Why the Kitchener Record link, which to my eyes is a clear slam dunk first piece of coverage, wasn't mentioned in the AFD I don't know. But one is not multiple, so where is #2? GRBerry 16:47, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, as AfD nominator. What new information was missing from the AfD debate? None presented as yet. Guy (Help!) 18:41, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, do we need to make it clearer that you're not supposed to use DRV just because you disagree with consensus? -Amarkov blahedits 23:05, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Undelete, ProductWiki meets WP:WEB criteria number one by being the subject of two different printed independent publications. The Kitchener Record, and The University of Waterloo's Imprint Newspaper. In light of these two pieces of factual evidence that ensure ProductWiki meets the standard for inclusion, I don't see how this can even be debated further. The other "mentioned in" articles further strengthen the point of significance. All arguments made in the original deletion debate to form consensus were uninformed. Now, with the full information come to light I see no other reasons for deletion to be a consideration. If people have an opinion about the quality, integrity or "spamness" of ProductWiki then they should come up with objective observations to justify this viewpoint and place it inside the Wikipedia article for ProductWiki. (full disclosure: I am also a co-founder of ProductWiki). Omarismail 18:38, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Um... no, it is not the subject of those two publications... -Amark moo! 01:30, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • I don't see how there's any dispute about the KW Record article. As for the Imprint article, it's about ProductWiki and more specifically how I (as a founder) was able to find and utilize the resources available to me to benefit the business. Can you guys help me out here to understand the spitefulness I sense here? I mean, everybody against is simply giving one line answers that don't really justify anything. The only reasonable response given so far was a comment that agreed with the Record article "a slam dunk" was the term used, and requested for another article, which has subsequently been provided. If the Imprint article isn't sufficient as an independent publication then please explain why and point to the relevant Wikipedia policies that define what an article is "about", because it's definitely more than a passing mention.Omarismail 02:57, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • No, the Imprint article is about the UW program, including, as an example, ProductWiki. That's really not more than a passing mention. -Amark moo! 03:02, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • "As an example" is being inaccurate, such a statement implies that ProductWiki is just one among many, when in fact the article focuses entirely on ProductWiki and me. I'm the only person who is interviewed, and the entire piece revolves around my experiences and my advice, with information as to what I've done and where it's got me with the site. The article would mean nothing if you took away the context that these are my experiences with launching ProductWiki. And fundamentally, this makes the article about ProductWiki. But it's about the site in a different way. It's behind the scenes kind of information. That's why I said the word "about" in regards to "publications about the site" is ambiguous. Do the referenced pieces have to be strictly about the site itself and factual information concerning the site like an encyclopedic entry? Or can the piece examine other aspects to the organization not just the web address itself? This isn't defined in the policy, and for now is up to people's judgements. Now, let's go back to the original point of this entire discussion and the essense of the policy, is ProductWiki a notable and significant site? If ProductWiki wasn't notable and insignificant then there would be no reason to interview me as a success since my product would be unknown. It's precisely because ProductWiki is notable and significant that the article exists. This is the independent, objective, unbiased real world references that Wikipedia is looking for to determine notability.Omarismail 07:42, 21 January 2007 (UTC)Omarismail (talkcontribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
  • once more, I would probably like to comment but I can not see how to do so, without seeing the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DGG (talkcontribs) 23:24, 21 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]
  • Repeating, I would probably like to comment but I can not see how to do so, without seeing the article. Could someone explain the purpose of having an appeals procedure if it has to depend on memory of the original process? I remember someone said once that it is enough to look at the arguments during the afd, but this and many other DelRev involve the original article. DGG 01:22, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • In this case, you certainly don't need the article. The issue is if there is new information here that wasn't considered or if it was closed incorrectly, not anything else. Unanimous decisions are pretty clear consensus, so that leaves new information. Nothing requires the article, regardless of what some people would like. -Amark moo! 01:40, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Don't be dismissive of ordinary users requests for notice, openness, fair process and access to information in AfDs and DRs. These are not trivial concerns. I am not weighing in on the merits here. At issue is "will editors work be destroyed in a manner that is not involved in edit disputes." Histories are removed. It is a "Kafka-tutional" issue. I agree with the need for reasonable access. Edivorce 18:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, trialsanderrors 00:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Piotr Blass – Article unsalted, draft moved to mainspace and relisted at AfD – 07:44, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
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Closing notes: I closed this DRV as the discussion is now moot. There was overwhelming concensus to unsalt and move the new draft to articlespace, which Trialanderrors acknowledged and proceeded to unsalt the articlespace location. As such, the request for unsalting, which this was, has been fufilled, and this discussion need not continue on the merits of the new draft.
I moved the new draft to the article location (Piotr Blass), and immediately relisted it at AfD per the general feeling below. I ask you read my nomination, especially the "Further notes" part, where I clarify my reasons for relisting rather than alternatively simply leaving the article to sit there, as one or two of the below users suggested.
I write this extended reasoning as I'm a non-administrator, however I felt that even so, this discussion will achieve nothing further open. Any general discussion about whether the draft-which-is-now-the-article should be deleted or kept should take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Piotr Blass (third nomination), not here, and hence there is no reason to continue this. Daniel.Bryant 09:57, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The Piotr Blass article was deleated after AfD#1 and AfD#2, largely because of lack of Wikipedia:Notability. Significant new information has come to light since the deletion. I took the new information and created a draft article here, which I would like to be included as the Piotr Blass article. The article talk page requests that this article be discussed prior to recreating it. Please review the draft article and take the steps necessary to have it included as the Piotr Blass article (relisting, overturn, etc.). Thank you. -- Jreferee 23:01, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • RelistUnsalt There seems to be adequate evidence of notability here, and at least some of the substantial problems of the first AFD have been solved. As for the second, it was closed as speedily deleted under G4, so the first AFD is more important. Maintaining it in an NPOV state may be difficult given the prior history. I'm hoping the proposer here will help watch over it. GRBerry 00:28, 25 January 2007 (UTC) Actually, advertising it via AFD probably won't help avoid the past problems, so I've reconsidered and am willing to just let it move in. GRBerry 04:11, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question Can anyone think of any way this article can be maintained, and not turned into a vanity piece to the greater glory of Piotr Blass, once it hits article space and he creates a new sockpuppet? Anyone want to spend eternity patrolling, reverting and protecting it? I'm reminded of myg0t or GNAA. Seriously, is having an article on this guy worth the trouble? Fan-1967 01:14, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Re-list Since the current state is not what was discussed in AfD, so it should be discussed again. I note that even in the recreation, it contains the NPOV phrase, "despite his qualifications" in section 1.2 , the section on family law 1st para is irrelevant, and the other paras written with a POV slant. And the final section has has POV and irrelevancies. I strongly urge Jreferee to improve it substantially before the AfD discussion.DGG 01:42, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist - far far better than the original and now appears to meet WP:BIO, good work Jreferee! RyanPostlethwaiteSee the mess I've created or let's have banter 01:45, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Unsalt. I do not want to think of the precedent we'd set if we refused a well-referenced article on a notable thing because it might be turned into a vanity piece. I don't know why it's necessary to relist; it's really much better. -Amark moo! 02:11, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist but wouldn't object much to a simple unsalting. I still would prefer this to be relisted because since even hough this version is much better it still isn't clear to me if he is notable. In particular, it isn't clear to me if he meets WP:PROF or WP:BIO (by nature, pieces that are purely interviews are not terribly useful) and I have slight concerns about there being OR in the new draft, especially regarding his children. JoshuaZ 02:18, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I unsalted it. I don't see a speedy criterion that could possibly apply now. ~ trialsanderrors 03:47, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Saul Kaiserman – no consensus to overturn – GRBerry 02:04, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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I'd ask that you undelete that bio/article. In support of my request, and in response to the criticisms made of the bio/article's noteworthiness, I am attaching some of my notes and relevant links below.

Saul Kaiserman is a recognized leader in the field of Jewish education, and an opinion leader in the scholarship re: birkat hamazon

  • Kaiserman's thesis has been reprinted on an independent website: lookstein.org
  • Curriculum has been written based upon ideas gleaned from Kaiserman's writings on birkat. lookstein.org
  • Kaiserman was an invited/featured speaker at the Limmud 2007 conference on birkat and other topics in Jewish education: limmudny.org
  • On the subject of treatment of eating disorders in the Jewish community: atid.org
  • Of course, there's also the self-published scholarship: newjewisheducation.blogspot.com
  • On other topics: shma.com, my.mli.org.il, bjeny.org
  • And he has influenced other scholars: urj.org

Devincohen 19:25, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment linked in AFD2, which had the delete result. GRBerry 19:54, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn: This is blatant antisemitism. Kaiserman has accomplished a tremendous amount in the field of Jewish education, a fact that was made abundantly clear in the entry (and above). The only way one could disregard the level and magnitude of achievements as being unworthy of inclusion in Wikipedia is to begin with an a priori hostility to the field itself. —The preceding Wolfpowers (talkcontribs) 19:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]
    • Comment Calm down. People of all sorts of racial/ethnic/religious/cultural/whatever backgrounds get deleted. This decision has nothing to do with anti-semitism (furthermore, as a piece of advice, Wikipedians are unlike to look favorably upon claims of anti-semitism without a wikipolicy based reason for overturning).
  • Endorse deletion The AfD was procedurally correct and seems to have reached the correct conclusion. He does not meet the notability criterion for an individual. Now if we had multiple, independent non-trivial reliable sources about him we could have an article. But we don't. JoshuaZ 20:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse valid AfD, no reliable sources from which to fix the article. Also, this appears to be Devincohen's fourth edit. Devin, do you normally contribute anonymously? Wolfpowers also seems to have very few edits. Both have a long period of absence from the project and have suddenly re-appeared now. Lovely to see you again, both. Guy (Help!) 20:32, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn (Duplicate removed) Fair question, Guy. Read lots, Try only to edit when I have something new and substantive to add. In this case, while it may be mostly to a niche interest area, I believe that Saul Kaiserman has made significant contributions. Further, he has held some high profile jobs in the area, and is currently a fellow in a well-regarded institute for mid-career educators. Finally, I hope that I will not be judged for trying to write smarter, rather than merely more.Devincohen 21:25, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion Valid afd and I'm not seeing anything reliable/substantive in the new sources which would suggest an overturn for consideration under WP:PROF Bwithh 21:45, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn/Restore I realize "independent research" may include personal experiences, but I have worked with Saul Kaiserman in my capacity as a Reform Rabbi. He is the foremost up-and-coming Jewish educator in this area (greater NYC and perhaps the whole East Coast). I don't have websites that say that, but I know that from individual experience. He is has begun to revolutionize Jewish education in religious schools. This isn't a big field and likely doesn't have lots of websites about it, but it is a field that affects the entire Jewish community/future. It you know little about the field of contemporary progressive Jewish supplemental education, I imagine this doesn't seem important to you. But millions of jewish kids go to Sunday School. Kaiserman is changing the whole model. I strongly endore overturning the deletion and allowing additional information to be found/added. JerseyRabbi 23:03, 24 January 2007 (UTC)Acount created 1/24/07[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, zero independent sources. If you can come up with the Jerusalem Post article and some New York Times, Post, Newsday, etc., articles which have him as the prime focus and discuss how he is changing education, then rewrite. But the latest version was lots of puffery with no reliable sources. Dang, those Wikipedia policies on verifiability must be anti-Semitic. User:Zoe|(talk) 23:12, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. Straighforward, proper and clear AfD discussion and result. None of the links provided above convince me that the result was incorrect. Agent 86 23:21, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion I see no faults in the AfD. CharonX/talk 01:15, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • relist on the basis that some of the sources cited by the nominator here are in fact independent sources, & of considerable importance, and that the inclusion of his work there testifies to his notability. Eg lookstein.org, which somewhat to my surprise i found an impt. organization with diverse support. I do not know what his bio looked like, but an adequate one could be written. DGG 01:58, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak relist per above. I'm not entirely sure that the sources are good enough, and he's at best marginally notable. -Amark moo! 02:13, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn / Restore Additional independent, verifiable sources demonstrating his leadership: Saul Kaiserman serves on the Board of the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation http://www.jewishpartisans.org/t_switch.php?pageName=board+of+directors# (click on 'advisory board'). Mr. Kaiserman serves on the Board of Directors of the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center http://www.isabellafreedman.org/about_us/board.shtml Saul Kaiserman is on the speaker's bureau of the Coalition of the Environment and Jewish Life, whose website lists additional credentials and areas of expertise: http://www.coejl.org/speakers/kaiserman_s.php Mr. Kaiserman is a Jerusalem fellow of the Mandel Leadership Institute: http://mandel.mli.org.il/MandelCMS/English/ProgramsEn/JerusalemFellows/Fellows/ Bobmedford 19:22, 25 January 2007 (UTC) Bobmedford (talkcontribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
  • undelete and relist I think there will be a real effort for better sources and detail made if more people have a chance at it again. If the article were visible I would try it now. DGG 05:29, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • comment: This is Saul Kaiserman here. I just wanted to say that while I always was amused that there was a wikipedia entry about me, I don't necessarily consider myself to be "encyclopedia-worthy." On the other hand, I'd say a substantial percentage of what I am glad is included in the Wikipedia would probably be considered as being of dubious merit. Further, I suspect that most people who google me have appreciated finding the information that was in my entry. Regarding this current conversation, I doubt seriously that most of the people commenting here are in any way qualified to know what credentials would make one appropriate to be considered a "cutting-edge Jewish educator." I also suspect that few of you have actually done any serious research into the links that were provided - saying "I haven't found anything to overturn the AfD" is like saying "I haven't found any evidence that he isn't a pig-f**ker, so he must be." A lot of people think that "superfluous entries" mar the credibility of the Wikipedia, but from my perspective, it is the amount of time people waste on arguments like this one that truly demonstrates the limitations of its volunteer-driven character. One would think that any of you commenting here would find the Wikipedia better served by working to improve and edit the truly substantial entries, not decrying the superfluous and ultimately irrelevant ones. Think Fred 14:24, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • saying "I haven't found anything to overturn the AfD" is like saying "I haven't found any evidence that he isn't a pig-f**ker, so he must be." Not even close, User:Saulkaiserman. To repeat what's said frequently, this is an examination of process, not AFD Round 2: the burden is on you to show any flaws.
  • I doubt seriously that most of the people commenting here are in any way qualified to know what credentials would make one appropriate to be considered a "cutting-edge Jewish educator." Your appeal to authority aside, your obvious conflict of interest means that you're not not really qualified to assert your importance.
  • One would think that any of you commenting here would find the Wikipedia better served by working to improve and edit the truly substantial entries, not decrying the superfluous and ultimately irrelevant ones. Removing the superfluous, inappropriate, and irrelevant indeed raises the overall quality level here, and it's certainly a false dichotomy to claim one comes at the expense of the other. --Calton | Talk 04:04, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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LoHo – Deletion endorsed, redirect set editorially – trialsanderrors 05:45, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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LoHo (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|AfD)

I believe that the administrator allowed people's personal bias to interfere with the rational approach to this debate. The fact that people disagree with the tactics that caused the name LoHo to come into play 10 years ago do not take away the fact that it indeed has come into play. Juda S. Engelmayer 15:31, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Overturn The decision was biased and did not account for the name's real use and notoriety.Juda S. Engelmayer 15:31, 24 January 2007 (UTC) (Duplicate removed)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. Valid AfD; consensus was that the name is not notable. Saying "Yes it is!" isn't grounds to overturn it. If you have sources establishing notability that were not mentioned, it's fine, but you do not. -Amark moo! 15:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn I fail to understand why an entry is rejected because its origins can be traced to a commercial source. The term LoHo has been in use well before LoHo Realty existed, it is part of the names of several establishments and it is a legitimate reference to a distinct geographic area. By deleting it the editors of this service are saying it isn't there; indeed they are endeavoring to make it not be there. Does not compute. YyanoverYyanover
  • Endorse deletion Close was in accordance with the guideline WP:NEO, which requires secondary sources about the term before we cover it. It was also within reasonable admin discretion even if that guideline didn't govern the outcome. GRBerry 16:07, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment as closer - won't endorse myself, but the consensus was clear. Proto:: 16:16, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment as Originator I did not realize it was a consensus vote. I thought if you showed that it was in use (in 20 articles), it demonstrated viability. Were the references ignored and only the consensus adhered to? Juda S. Engelmayer 16:43, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. If the "20 articles" were from reliable sources and documented the name as being in wide use, rather than minor passing mentions and blog postings and one article mentioning this as a neologism, and if anything demonstrated that the term has been influential in anything except naming one agency, then the references would have overruled any number of "delete" votes that didn't give a valid policy reason. The consensus of the commenting editors and the closing admin was that those references were not sufficient for WP policy, and I agree. They weren't ignored, they were found not to establish notability. Barno 18:51, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Deletion. I see no evidence that the closing admin was swayed by anyone's bias. The admin gave a clear and cogent reason as to why he chose to delete it. Nothing in that reasoning seems to be "irrational". Agent 86 18:57, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse perfectly reasonable assessment of the debate. I'm struggling to see how Proto "allowed" anything here, all he did was weigh up the arguments, which seem to me to be pretty clearly on the side of deletion. What am I missing here? Guy (Help!) 20:24, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. Since I was involved in the AfD debate I won't endorse, but I'm not at all clear what abuse of process User:Judae1 is alleging. It's not that people ignored his wall of footnotes, it's that we didn't agree with him that they supported notability, and he seems to be taking it personally. --Polonius 00:45, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • reverse for further discussion I did vote to keep in the AfD, on the grounds that neighborhoods with a distinctive name used in newspapers about other than real estate (I don't consider such pages necessarily a RS in these matter) were notable, & this has been. I think it may have been preconceived notions. DGG 01:46, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment as Afd initiator - I won't endorse one way or the other, but given that WP:NEO is explicit about requiring multiple independent, reliable sources that are about, and not simply mention, the subject, which of the sources listed at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/LoHo verify that LoHo a widely recognized name and/or the topic isn't redundant with Lower East Side, Manhattan? The Miami Herald/KC Star piece seems to come the closest, but the others either aren't RS or mention LoHo in passing (and one doesn't mention the neighborhood at all, referring instead to Lindsay Lohan and a club in MePa). Mosmof 03:09, 25 January 2007 (UTC) MePa?[reply]
Lotus in on Clinton St at Attorney. 207.237.54.86 03:27, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You're thinking of the Lotus Lounge at Clinton and Stanton (Clinton and Attorney don't intersect). The blog post in question is talking about Lotus, Lindsay Lohan's (or "Lindsay LoHo-Ho-Ho-Han") hangout on 14th. Mosmof 03:36, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Would it be valid to redirect to Lower East Side, Manhattan? --NE2 08:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I'm curious about that - a part of me thinks, since it's a duplicative topic, it makes sense and it can't do any harm. But I also have to ask, if the LoHo term fails WP:NEO, wouldn't you not use the term, and wouldn't this legitimize the term as much as an article space would? Ytny 13:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment to Ytny "wouldn't you not use the term, and wouldn't this legitimize the term...?" The term is already in use, article space or not. Your question can be interpreted as yielding to those opposed to the term itself for whatever reason. While not on the same scale, it is like taking a poll of those who like the name "Hell's Kitchen" and deciding that it does not merit mention, even though well established and used, because people don't like it. Or, to be more political, and also to a considerably lesser degree, it is tantamount to American voters who do not like the current admininistration and therefore say, "he's not my president." Well, yes he is. Same here. I would think mention of the name on the Lower East Side page would be a decent compromise, and would acknowledge, that while some of the references may not be from what Wiki considers reliable sources, they are not shills set up for this article, and they are a representation of how the many among the New Lower East Siders feel.Juda S. Engelmayer 14:23, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • I think you misunderstand my point. I guess "legitimize" was the wrong term, but it's too early in the day for me to think of a better term. Anyway, there would be no issue with "Hell's Kitchen", or even its new dastardly new moniker, "Clinton", because both names have been the subject of multiple books and articles from reliable sources. And multiple, non-trivial sources have established that George W. Bush is in fact my president.
      It may be true that "LoHo" is widely used, but remember that Wikipedia isn't interested in the truth; its only interest is verifiability. President Bush and Hell's Kitchen (and Clinton) meet the tests for notability, LoHo doesn't.
      As for the mentions, I don't want to be draconian about WP, but the WP:NEO has been established for a good reason and I think it applies in this case. The vast majority of the mentions aren't RS, and given the amount of press and blogospheric coverage the neighborhood receives every day, I'm not sure if the cited sources amount to much more than a drip in the bucket. If you're going to go against a well established policy, there should be a very compelling reason, and I have yet to hear one.
      Also, I don't think a mention in the Lower East Side article wouldn't be a terrible idea, but it'll depend on the context. What you're suggesting seems to resort to original research. Again, what is the compelling reason to go against policy? Ytny 15:12, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      Thank you. That was clear and probably the most informative reply I have seen on this.Juda S. Engelmayer 17:04, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion This was in process and sources were discussed and determined to be insufficient to meet the guidelines. People did get a little upset about the spamminess of the article, but that does not change the fact that the reasoning for deletion was sound. Plus, you cannot start a food fight and try to stick WP with the dry cleaning bill. JChap2007 00:55, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I tried a Google News search of the term LoHo, and there was a relevant hit 3 days ago from The New York Observer, an actual newspaper, but... it was documenting Wikipedia's recent deletion of the LoHo article! I thought this was an interesting case of a technical RS that obviously doesn't count, but for all I know there's already a definitive policy on such circular referencing. --gwc 21:38, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    It sounds like that wouldn't count as a source about LoHo under the notability policy because the source is about the article and not about LoHo itself. JChap2007 03:08, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Also, it's from the NYO Real Estate blog, not NYO proper. It's more reputable than the average blog, but it still takes the "Take what I say with a grain of salt" approach that most blogs take. Plus, since they operate by relaying reader tips and news in other media outlets, they're only reliable as their sources are. I've written for a site within a fairly notable blog network, and the primary concerns are drawing traffic and meeting the daily quota, journalistic standards be damned. Ytny 07:44, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment **The Village Voice, not sure if it is a Reliable Source, had a story called LES is more, and it talks about the "boutiquification" of Loho. See this link Village Voice, LES Is More, by Sarah Ferguson, March 22 - 28, 2000. It states,

"He limits his study to the area south of 14th Street and north of Houston, ignoring the recent boutiquification of the old Jewish quarter south of Houston, dubbed "Loho," where an Orchard Street condo just sold for $1.1 million."

While it is stil not the feature on the name, it is about the neighborhood and mentions "dubbed Loho" Juda S. Engelmayer 18:34, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alas, Loho will still remain the name of a place, if only a fictional colony in the fantasy world of Wayard. For now, while easily accesible by the "F" Train, it will have to be thought of as place on the continent of Anagra's west coast that can only be accessed by ship. I do appreciate the effort and time here, and do believe that you'll see it again arise as a place that doesn't only exist in fantasy or for real in the Barangay of Lagonoy, Camarines Sur, province in the Philippines. New York awaitsJuda S. Engelmayer 19:19, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You still seem confused about Wikipedia's basic principles. Keep in mind that Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. That something exists or is true is not enough of a reason to include it in Wikipedia.
For example, my girlfriend exists (really!), and that she doesn't have her own Wikipedia article doesn't change the fact. But if she does get a profile in NY Times and Bob Woodward pens her bio, then she's probably going to get herself a Wikipedia article. In fact, even if my girlfriend didn't exist (but she does, I swear!), she'd actually get herself a Wiki article if the Economist and Time wrote feature articles about my imaginary girlfriend. Why? Because my imaginary girlfriend is notable enough for reliable journalists, people whose job depends on knowing what is and isn't notable, to waste their precious time and energy writing about her.
The point I'm making with this admittedly far fetched example is that existence or truthfulness is irrelevant. The key is notability. When something is notable, notable media will talk about it. And this is why Narnia (world), a land of make believe, has an article, and LoHo, a real life location, doesn't. It doesn't matter that one is more real or important than others.
As for your specific example, I don't see how the Village Voice article helps your case. Notice that the writer left "LoHo" in quotes, which I interpreted to mean that she doesn't really think the name is established. You might disagree, but that's precisely the point - if it's open to interpretation, then it's not verifiable. And the phrase "dubbed 'LoHo'" can easily be read to mean, "dubbed 'LoHo' by realtors, but not too many others". Again, you might disagree, which is why Wikipedia demands multiple independent sources talking about the subject, so there's no room for interpretation. Ytny 00:08, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Funny Farm (comic) – Speedy deletion overturned and relisted at AfDDaniel.Bryant 07:06, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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List of literary works with eponymous heroines – Deletion endorsed, sent to project space – trialsanderrors 05:41, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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follow-up deletion, no thorough discussion <KF> 11:16, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

At first there was no request for deletion at all. Rather, a contributor was hoping that the companion article, List of literary works with eponymous heroes (that one still very much work in progress), would be improved. As no deletion was requested, "speedy close" of discussion was suggested. However, at that point someone who had never contributed to either page (User:Apostrophe) suddenly requested deletion. In the wake of the ensuing debate (about the definition of "hero", whether it could ever be NPOV, where participants misinterpreted the literary term as a moral judgement), attention was also paid to the corresponding "female" list. Its deletion was only requested by four contributors (who had never contributed to it), and one of the major reasons cited was that now, after the deletion of its "male" counterpart, the list was "orphaned". In fact it had existed since 2003, had always been carefully maintained (not just by myself but also by other contributors who also seem to have been unaware of the deletion process) and is linked to by more than 20 pages.

I request undeletion as this list serves at least two purposes: to show all those involved in the WikiProject Novels which articles are still missing, and mainly because it serves as a survey of works of literature with eponymous female protagonists. Minor problems—what should be included, what not, etc.—could be easily discussed, and resolved, on the talk page.

  • If you want to create a list of missing novels in project space as part of your WikiProject, go right ahead. Consensus was pretty clear here and at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of literary works with eponymous heroes that these lists are not suitable for mainspace due to their arbitrary nature. Guy (Help!) 11:39, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Such a list can be of interest not just to members of this particular WikiProject but to all students of literature. There is nothing whatsoever arbitrary about individual authors deciding to call their novel after the female protagonist (for example, you can notice a marked increase in the second half of the 19th century, what with "fallen women" becoming "heroines" etc.). Also, this list also included/includes all literary genres (drama and poetry). Finally, you are referring to the wrong deletion discussion. There is no mention of what you are referring to at the "female" counterpart. <KF> 11:46, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restore - Hero or Heroine is a well known literary term and should be seen as such. These debates are often small minded and often without specialist knowledge of the field envolved. Both articles should be reinstated, however work to cite and reference items included should be added. More examples of the binning of perfectly good (albeit incomplete work). :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 11:48, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse consensus was clear (especially if the two AfD's are looked at in tandem). A list of missing novels belongs in the project space. Eluchil404 12:18, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
If it belongs in the project space, it should've been moved instead of deleted.- Mgm|(talk) 12:22, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
But this wasn't that list. This was a list with poorly defined and indescriminant criteria for membership. My point was that the "redlinks are useful" argument applies to projectspace not mainspace. Eluchil404 12:34, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. There was a clear consensus, and your reasons for overturning it are a bunch of arguments about how it's useful (which is not a criterion for inclusion), how you worked on it (again, not a criterion), and a bunch of blasting of the people who recommended deletion. Nothing convincing. -Amark moo! 15:45, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion as above Bwithh 16:14, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion Consensus was clear in the AFD. The very nature of a wiki is that no editor or group of editors owns any content, and any editor can begin adding or removing material at any time. GRBerry 16:37, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. Clear consensus in both AfDs. I see no procedural error and cannot think of anything that could be said differently about this article that could not be said about the companion article. I also see no reason why the opinion of those who did not contribute to the article ought to be discounted. Agent 86 18:50, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy restore although I can feel that if people who have hardly any idea about the subject-matter can vote on this there is no hope. "Consensus was clear"? What does that mean? What would an "unclear consensus" be? Why do only the "endorse deletion" arguments count but not the "restore" arguments? If, as GRBerry says above, "any editor can begin adding or removing material at any time", how can I add the material that has been deleted? Whycreateanaccount 18:56, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: I really don't appreciate being turned into a target and implied to be akin to a "destructive" Cro-Magnon with no appreciation for the finer arts because I don't contribute to your cherished articles. Wikipedia isn't a personal playground for for you; there are other kids, and they do get a say. ' (Feeling chatty? ) (Edits!) 19:35, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restore. Yes, I agree with Guy that it was indeed nasty to delete the list. A noteworthy collection of titles whose unifying criterion is that the heroine gives the book its title. The criteria are in no way indiscriminate (that's what you mean by "indescriminant", right?). For example, DuMaurier's Rebecca was excluded because the character of Rebecca actually never appears in the novel etc. The list would have been the basis of more extensive work of the typology sort, like creating various types of heroines etc. Where can I get hold of that list? I jsut dont believe someone had it deleted. Wikikiwi 10:10, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PS. If you look up my user contributions now it may seem I hardly ever contribute, but many of my edits were this list.

  • Restore The lists were useful and as said above the term "hero" or "heroine" is a valid term in literature. Even if this is still part of the argument against the list, why not change the name of the list to "List of books with female eponymous protagonists" and the same for the male counterparts? Tartan 13:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restore I'm editing now for the first time, but I have been using this list as a point of reference for I suppose more than 3 years. I don't know if I'm doing the right thing here, I found this page via the What links here button on the talk page. Sorry if I have made a mistake, if so please delete this again. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.65.173.162 (talk) 14:08, 25 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]
  • Endorse deletion per consensus here. >Radiant< 15:48, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment Let me point out again that the consensus you are referring to concerns a different article, not the one under consideration here. <KF> 16:12, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • PS The main objection brought forward against this list is its arbitrariness ("an indiscriminate collection of titles", "there's no actual connection between the novels"), i e the lack of a criterion by which you can tell whether an item fits into the list or not. Now if that is true, I suppose a list such as the List of unusual deaths—"unique causes or extremely rare circumstances throughout history", as it says in the introductory sentence—will even more so violate Wikipedia's official policy against arbitrariness.
    • The reasons are clear. Not only are book titles verifiable (no problem at all, any publisher's or library catalogue will do) whereas death "by having a red-hot iron inserted into one's anus" (Edward II of England, 1327) may be "apocryphal," it is also highly subjective and POV whether you consider a certain death "unusual". Any lifelong militant non-smoker dying of lung cancer plus their family and friends will tell you they think their imminent death is not just unfair but also "unusual" although we know that 13.4 per cent of lung cancer deaths are not attributable to smoking and are thus not "unusual" at all. As far as lists of works of literature are concerned, while the content of a particular book may be controversial, a book title hardly ever is. You couldn't possibly say, "I don't think Mrs Dalloway is the title of the book and at the same time the name of the female protagonist, do you?" On the other hand, what, pray, is so "unusual" about suffering a fatal heart attack during a discussion, which happened to Alexander Woolcott in 1943?
    • Consequently, one might think, the List of unusual deaths will already have met its maker, maybe even have been speedy-deleted. However, this page reveals that the list has even been a Featured list candidate.
    • Don't get me wrong here. This is the first time I've come across that list, and I thoroughly enjoyed browsing through it, so under no circumstances would I want to see it deleted either. The whole point of knowledge is that isolated items of knowledge are cross-referenced, grouped and regrouped under a broad variety of titles and categories so that new insights can be gained. In that context someone even pre-emptively resorted to Wikipedia's "no original research" argument just because someone who would like to see the list restored pointed out that they were planning—privately, I suppose—to use the list as the starting point of some further categorisation.
    • So rather than having some more "Endorse deletion per consensus" or "Endorse deletion per above" votes by experienced voters or critical comments saying that unusual deaths are not the issue here (I know that very well), could someone actually explain to me what makes that other list—a random choice by the way—so much more eligible for inclusion than the female protagonists? <KF> 18:06, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • As you so kindly reminded us, "Let me point out again that the consensus you are referring to concerns a different article, not the one under consideration here." Either precedent counts or it doesn't. You're also assuming that we approve of that article when you have no basis for believing as such. I know I don't. ' (Feeling chatty? ) (Edits!) 18:58, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Regardless, featured list candidacy proves absolutely nothing. Anybody can do such to any list, and for you to use this for your support is deceptive, implying that only exemplary or consensus-approved lists get this. Especially with the fact that there was absolutely no support for it becoming a featured list. ' (Feeling chatty? ) (Edits!) 19:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • "Deceptive" is a strong word, and I don't like being called a deceiver. This I'm afraid is no basis for a discussion. Whom should I want to deceive anyway if all I'm doing is asking for an explanation not why the List of unusual deaths has, or has not, or has almost been, awarded Featured List status but why it has survived two Votes for Deletion although, by all standards of objectivity, it is far more "arbitrary" than the Female Protagonists ever could become. I've never understood what makes individuals so set upon having something removed which they could easily ignore while at the same time others would benefit from it. This deletion has already driven away one (more or less potential) contributor to the literature articles, and I can well imagine that Wikikiwi might also stop contributing if what they say—that they mainly contributed to this list—is true (which I can no longer verify because the edits have been eradicated from their user contributions). Have it your way. There is no point in carrying on once it gets personal. And no, I'm not feeling chatty any more. <KF> 20:13, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restore Looking at the debate, it was clear that there certainly had been no consensus that lists in general were not suitable for article space. There may possibly have been some consensus about this particular list in the state it was in at the time, but it will take more than a single AfD to get a consensus on where lists can go--in fact, I do not think we will ever have a consensus about what to do with lists, though sometimes people (not represented here) have tried to remove individual ones on the basis of various pretended policies.
it was also clear that the debate there was really a personal fight which quickly diverged into unrelated issues. i don't think any decision made in that atmosphere should stand. I know I didnt participate because of the way it was going.
In fact, the same thing is happening again here. Some of the debate above is about other lists entirely. Some of it is about tobacco-related deaths. At least it isn't over-personal. DGG 05:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I'm not seeing the relevance of your arguments. Lists aren't at debate here. An arbitrary list is. I'm also not seeing a "personal fight" in the AfD. Are you sure you're in the right debate? ' (Feeling chatty? ) (Edits!) 06:39, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • "Choices and actions are considered to be arbitrary when they are done not by means of any underlying principle or logic, but by whim or some decidedly illogical formula." Thus, rather than the list itself, its being singled out for deletion is arbitrary. <KF> 13:09, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • Do you have any sort of argument beyond WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS and that I'm not spending my entire life nominating articles for deletion? I'm sorry I'm not a superhuman capable of nominating every article I don't like in Wikipedia. Not only do you have to find all of them, you'd have to exert yourself arguing against inclusionists. I'm not exactly in the mood to redo this same debate a thousand times over, you see. ' (Feeling chatty? ) (Edits!) 17:01, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • First of all, your not being "capable of nominating every article I don't like in Wikipedia" reveals the interesting insight that you are using a highly personal rather than an objective yardstick when it comes to assessing Wikipedia articles. You shouldn't do this while at the same time hiding behind various official guidelines such as "USEFUL" or "OTHERCRAP". Secondly, I have explained all my arguments above, and others have done so as well, but if each argument in favour of keeping/restoring this list is automatically met with disapproval of its validity, honestly, there is nothing to be added here. I have said so already, and I do not consider myself a loser for it. It's a sad thing that casual users accessing an article about an individual novel will from now on be denied the larger picture, that they will no longer be referred to the fact that there are many more works of literature with eponymous heroines they might want to consider, but that's the way it is. <KF> 00:27, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
            • You're grasping at straws. My dislike of Wikipedia articles is based on policy, whether you agree with my interpretation or not. The fact that I "don't like" things doesn't indicate a "highly personal yardstick". I also perplex at your hypocrisy; you are somehow allowed to dispute endorse opinions, but I am not allowed to do so in return? Please stop applying standards to your opponents that you cannot follow yourself. Furthermore, disallowing the opposing side to refute your points entirely defeats the purpose of debate. It's rather clear that you're letting this get too personal, as indicated by this (some of which can be taken as a personal attack). May I suggest a breather? ' (Feeling chatty? ) (Edits!) 02:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
              • As I said, there is nothing to be added to this deletion review. If you feel you can personally profit from that sort of thing, consider yourself the winner of this debate. All the best, <KF> 03:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure. I don't see any process problems with the deletion discussion nor do I see any way the closer could have interpreted the discussion any differently. The only person who commented at all favorably during the deletion discussion qualified his/her opinion with "Ultra weak keep". The companion discussion was also nearly unanimous. No new evidence has been presented above which convinces me that we should overturn the deletion decision. Rossami (talk) 19:52, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment There were certainly no "process problems" in the deletion discussion. The only "process problem" I can think of (are there any others?) is the deletion of an article although a majority voted "keep", and this was certainly not the case. However, if one looks at the deletion process with the spirit rather than the letter of the law in mind, one will see that only four individuals took part in it—a very small number indeed— and that none of the regular contributors to this list took part (their own fault, according to the letter of the law, I know, but they might have been notified just like every uploader of an image is when it is put up for deletion). By the way, the novel entitled Esther of course fits the criterion/criteria for inclusion: Almost every novel has "A Novel" as its subtitle; in that particular case it served as a disambiguation from the Esther page.
    • I am not sure what would count as "new evidence". I can only say again that what all the novels in the list have in common is that they have a female protagonist who at the same time gives the novel its title. The casual user/browser is led from an individual novel page to the list and there gets a survey of works of literature (not just novels) with the same or similar themes and motifs. It is from there that he/she can continue his/her reading/research.
    • Such a point of reference is important because it visualizes the interrelatedness of seemingly isolated pieces of knowledge (our Wikipedia categories serve exactly that purpose). <KF> 23:53, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • That seems like a classic case of original research, doesn't it? Ytny 00:06, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • We had the "original research" argument before in this deletion discussion (see above). Please be precise and state what your "that" refers to. It can't be "original research" if a reader draws their own conclusions or starts seeing things in a different light, can it? So what do you mean? <KF> 00:14, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • I admit, I can't really be arsed to wade through the wall of comments. But what I got from browsing just now is not that there was much of a "discussion" about original research, but rather a case of someone pointing it out and you brushing it aside. What I'm talking about specifically is this:
# Such a point of reference is important because it visualizes the interrelatedness of seemingly isolated pieces of knowledge (our Wikipedia categories serve exactly that purpose).
"Interrelatedness" and "seemingly isolated" are are purely your interpretation, as correct as they may be. That is about as pure a case of original research as you can get, asserting your own views and assuming reader interpretation. Ytny 00:24, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry, but I'm not quite sure I understand what you are saying here. Just as, say, 1967 in literature gives a whole list of isolated (seemingly isolated, yes, that's my claim) facts and figures, the heroine list lists isolated book titles. Users of Wikipedia cannot be prevented when they read "1967 in literature" from noticing that, for example, in that year more books were published by female authors than, say, in 1867 or 1767, can they? The "original research" clause was introduced because cranks were advancing their personal conspiracy or end of the world theories, not because some readers may be clever enough to think for themselves. <KF> 00:38, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Speartip Alliance – Deletion endorsed – Daniel.Bryant 07:05, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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I request that this article would be fully restored. It was deleted on reasoning that it was a gaming clan, which is true, but also the fact that it is non-nnotable, this however is not true. The 'gaming clan' is a group of Warhammer 40k players who were set up in Game Workshops recent campaign. The group wasn't unnoticed and whose actions were featured in several of the weekly reviews of the Campaign, although the group wasn't mentioned by name, and in the final international conclusion for the race that the group fought for: Medusa V Conclusion (Paragraph 7) The group is also mentioned in another Wikipedia article: The Imperial 12th Army Group which is basically our equivalent but on the 'other' side. The group also intends to have a page on Lexicanum another wiki encyclopedia. Thank you for reviewing our case and the group apologises for any inconvenience. Speartip 08:20, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The page was not intended to be about the group, i.e trying to advertise it, but about the actual object the Speartip is, basically it is like other articles on Warhammer 40,000 and not about the group of people who set it up.

That is what the subject is, it is in the world of Warhammer 40,000 a group of chaos lords who set up an alliance. Though as it was mentioned on the official warhammer website then surely it has as much right to be here as any of the other articles on things in Warhammer 40k such as the Medusa V article in which the Allaince was recognised in one of the campaign summarys (see original post). Just for complete clarification: what is calssed as a 'Gaming clan', I know what it is but I would be interested to know what the in-depth definition is. Speartip 16:07, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So, let me see if I understand this (I don't play Warhammer 40k). You meant for the article to be about the fictional group, but still possibly containing some data about the real people who represent it? Veinor (talk to me) 17:12, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not intentional for it to contain information about the people. If this is accepted then I shall make sure the page has no reference to the people and only to the Alliance. You may be interested to see the page on lexicanum: The Speartip Alliance Speartip 17:16, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Just making sure. And I would like to point out that the article on Lexicanum has been marked as possible "Fan Fluff", which seems to be the same thing as fancruft. And besides, anybody can create an article on a wiki; that's the entire point. So I don't think we can use existence of an article on another wiki as notability evidence. Veinor (talk to me) 17:24, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The notice on Lexicanum does make things look bad but it is mainly to do with the lack of sources which I have now provided, you can see that there is quite a lot of mention of the Alliance. The reason why I pointed out the article on Lexicanum is that it is somewhere where you can see what the article on Wikipedia would basically look like, with any required or requested ommisions. Speartip 17:36, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse deletion. The "weekly reviews of the Campaign" do not meet WP:RS, and neither do the blogs and chatrooms. In general, game clans get featured coverage only from self-published sources, not from anything with fact-checking editorial staffs with real independence from the publisher; so they don't meet the core policy of Wikipedia:Verifiability. Without that, we can't use it, no matter how much interest a few dozen people may have. Barno 18:58, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is reliable as anything else to do with the Medusa V Campaign, Games Workshop could have not placed the group in the updates, as soon as it did so it became as official as Medusa V. There are no chatrooms on that sources list and if you are implying the group itself I request that you check my previous statesments on how the article will be about the written group and not the group of people. Speartip 19:07, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • But it is, to be charitable, non-canon. And that is always going to be a problem. You already have an article on the relevant specialist WIki, I'd leave it at that if I were you. Guy (Help!) 22:20, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll see what any other administrators have to say first, if it isn't restored then i'll stick to the Lexicanum page. Speartip 08:10, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Deletion was completely irresponsible. Person who proposed didn't noticed me, even this is not an ordinary template, but a product of specialist expertise. Any work created in Serbia or Montenegro may be used reasonably wherever if author of the work is mentioned. This is not the case for Florida law, but the case for the law of the country where work had been made. I am wandering what is the sense to contribute to English Wikipedia if there is no a minimum of cooperation between contributors. millosh (talk (sr:)) 03:13, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Nominations merged. ~ trialsanderrors 03:25, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hmm. These actually aren't really helpful templates for Wikipedia; U.S. law does govern our fair use claims, and having one of these on an image could mislead an editor into believing that they had actually asserted fair use under U.S. law. Maybe a lawyer with expertise in international copyright law as interpreted in the U.S. courts could evaluate whether fair use under foreign law would be fair use under U.S. law - but the templates didn't even claim that the use would be fair under U.S. law, so we can let that issue rest until the Wikimedia Counsel gives us direction. We do ask people to be courteous and notify others of template TfDs and article AfDs, but we've never held that failure to do so is grounds for overturning. The consensus in the TFD was clear, and the close was in line with the discussion and TfD precedent. Thus, I endorse closure. GRBerry 04:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • The content of the template was made by Wikimedia Serbia lower. In short, if work is made in Serbia/Montenegro by Serbian/Montenegrin author and some Serbian/Montenegrin Wikipedian put it on Wikipedia (which is the most predictable case)-- all of them will be affected by Serbian/Montenegrin law, not by Florida low. Also, I may see a lot of templates which are not inside of Florida law (Template:Canada-politician-photo, Template:Dutch-politician-photo, Template:India-politician-photo... Template:CrownCopyright -- and the list is generated only from the article Wikipedia:Fair use). So, what is the problem here? --millosh (talk (sr:)) 05:13, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Because Crown Copyright is a specific copyright status, which the works are explicitly under. The impression I'm getting is that these countries simply have laws such that anything is fair use so long as you note the author, not that any work made in the countries explicitly is under a license which allows that. -Amark moo! 05:50, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • (Edit conflict) All of those assert fair use under U.S. law for a particular type of copyright ownership in a particular situation.. The two templates you have nominated here asserted that foreign law governed and that the marked materials could be used if cited. These two are very different, and were deleted because of they didn't follow U.S. law. GRBerry 05:53, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • I am not lower and I am not introduced in this matter; I just put template which our lower prepared. However, there are some reasonable questions related to this -- what about the situation which I described: Image was made in Serbia by Serbian author; image is uploaded by the citizen of Serbia in Serbia. Even if I don't think that we would have any such case -- it is reasonable to suppose that such Wikipedian contributor from Serbia may be sued under Serbian law because (s)he uploaded the image. If the templates (i.e. Serbian/Montenegrin fair use) are against US law, then the only solution is to say that people from Serbia shouldn't upload any fair use image, as well as that Serbian Wikipedia shouldn't use any fair use image. So, please, explain it to me a little bit better, because this is not related only to this template. --millosh (talk (sr:)) 06:40, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • I am not a lawyer either, and to the extent I read legal documents for hours a day, those are contracts, not copyright documents. My understanding is that the reason we follow U.S. law is that the party most likely to be sued is the Wikimedia foundation (the typical rule of sue the person with the money), and U.S. law definitely applies thereto, as the foundation is in the U.S., the servers are in the U.S., and the page can be read by anyone anywhere in the world. I suggest you email User:Brad Patrick, the foundation's lawyer, if a more solid explanation is needed. I've invited him to comment here, but it is the middle of the night in the U.S., so hopefully he is asleep (as I should be.) GRBerry 06:47, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
            • I think that it would be much better to talk here then on internal-l list (because it is public). It seems that we definitely need one EU server for fair use material if we want to keep fair use material inside of WM projects. According to the present situation, no fair use material may be added by any person who is under jurisdiction of continental law (now, I realized why German Wikimedian projects don't allow fair use images). Hypothetically, all of them may be sued because not valid attribution to the author and, unlike in Anglo-Saxon law system, all of them may be sued separately, without relation to the prior cases. This, also, means that WM projects which use fair use material have to say to the people who are under continental law systems that they may be sued for uploading fair use media. --millosh (talk (sr:)) 07:04, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. Copyright status in other countries is irrelevant; what matters is copyright status where the Wikipedia servers are, in Florida. And I'm not sure that "reasonably wherever if the author is mentioned" is okay for Wikipedia anyway. Regardless, you've presented nothing which was not present in the debate, so it would be an endorse anyway. -Amark moo! 04:49, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • CommentEven if "reasonable use" is permited under Serbian and Montenegro law it would still not qualify as actual free content (unless I missed the part where it said that modifications and commercial use is considered "reasonable use"), wich makes them unfree (we are pretty black and white on that issue). If not free then not even works where the author have given explicit permission for use on Wikipedia is good enough (needs to be free for all)[60]. I suppose it does not hurt to mention that something is "semi free" in some contexts (some re-users might fit the criterea), but you don't rely need a tag for that, and to be usable on Wikipedia such works will still have to jump though all the hoops of the Wikipedia:Fair use criteria, and so they might as well just use the good old {{fair use in}} tag. --Sherool (talk) 09:05, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. I created a stubbish article Serbian copyright law few months ago, and there's a link to the Law text in English. My own impresion is that it's more or less a copy/paste/adaptation of various international copyright treaties. Regardless of the outcome of this DRV, I'd appreciate if someone knowledgeable takes a look at it and reports back whether the quote in the deleted template was taken out of context (restored for readers' convenience):

    5. Limitations on Copyright
    5.1. Common Provision
    Article 40
    (1) In the cases in which a work of authorship is exploited pursuant to the provisions of this Law dealing with limitations on copyright, the name of that work’s author and the source from which the work was taken (publisher of the work, year and place of publication, periodical, newspaper, television or radio station where the work or a part of it was originally published or directly taken from, and the like), shall be quoted.
    (2) In any specific case, the scope of limitation of exclusive rights may not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work nor may unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author".

    In any case, the issue seems moot indeed (i.e. deletion endorsed) per Amarkov and Sherool's comment's above—WP:FUC have become far more restrictive in the meantime, and it seems to be an issue of U.S. jurisdiction. Offhand, it doesn't look much looser than U.S. jurisdiction, as per "pursuant to other provisions of this Law" clause—IMO it implies that "you should quote the author if fair use is allowed", not "you're free to fair use anything provided you quote the author". But I'm not a lawyer. Duja 15:54, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    But, I didn't get any response to my question: Serbian (and other continental, I am sure) fair use requires the name of the author. Different kinds of fair use on en: don't require that. As far as I can see, template is against US/Florida law. This means that no one from Serbia (but not only from Serbia) may not upload any fair use media. Did we come up to this point or not? --millosh (talk (sr:)) 04:05, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    <#include "Im_no_lawyer.h">. WP:FUC, item 10, states (among other things) that "The image or media description page must contain: Proper attribution of the source of the material, and attribution of the copyright holder (if it is different)." I fail to see the hypothetical case where you may fairly use a media under Florida law and Wikipedia policies, but not under Serbian law (or the other way round)? Duja 07:47, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse per GRBerry. >Radiant< 15:45, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse per GRBerry. Policy is rather clear (to me) in this area, and it's hard for us to verify claims that a work is actually from Serbia - probably one of the reasons we stick to Florida law (and the fact that Wikipedia lives there :)). Martinp23 22:54, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Ace Combat X Fictional Aircraft – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 00:22, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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This is the second time around The article has been fixed tremdesly so I hope this time it will be restored. The only thing I could not find was another external link so I only have one, hope that's ok. You can find the fixed article here, make sure you look here before saying anything.Sam ov the blue sand 22:17, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep deleted, article still fails WP:V and WP:RS, which is the reason it was deleted in the first place. Nominator (Sam) even admits that he can't find any reliable sources. Proto:: 10:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted. The article looking bad was never the problem. -Amark moo! 15:36, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • There are plenty of articles with only one source and sometimes none so why haven't you deleted them? And if it's because of the fanfiction in Electrosphere if you havn't noticed I remove all of that and have kept all the reliable information and some of this info can be found in the game by using the aitcraft. So what exacally is the problem?Sam ov the blue sand 21:43, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Two reasons. First there is a difference between having only one source currently in the article and having only one source that could be used to build the article. Our policy is that content must be verifiable, not that it must be already cited. (An example article would be Geology, which through the end of August had no source citations, but is obviously verifiable.) Second, standards on sourcing tightened up quite a bit during the second half of 2006, and with more than 1.5 million articles we simply have not tested all of them to current standards. I have total confidence that some are not sourceable, but that an even larger fraction are sourcable but have no sources currently. You can read the essay Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability for further explanation of how inconsistency can arise, with the second paragraph being especiall on point. GRBerry 15:02, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I never get those essays I read that one and I still don't get all of what you're talking about sre you saying I should but those number things that lead to an external resource in the article?Sam ov the blue sand 21:44, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The essay was to explain further why inconsistency exists. Basically, because the project is too big, with too many participants, to expect that either 1) everything has been reviewed or 2) that the same standards have been applied in each review of things reviewed.
If you have other reliable sources (other than the game, its publisher, etc...), you absolutely should put them in the article in one form or another. WP:CTT (I think) gives the current preferred form for citing sources, but external links in the prose, external links in an external link or reference section, or a clear and complete citation of a printed published sources (books, etc...) can show us what other reliable sources there are. We all understand you to say that there is only one reliable source available that is independent of the game.
There is a difference between having sources available and using a source, and that is what the bit about our Geology article was supposed to show - it had external links, but not references, and those external links wouldn't have validated a large fraction of the article content. Even when it had no sources, they were available, so it was a valid article. With this topic, in the absence of sources, we don't think this stands a snowball's chance of survival. Even with sources, it would still have to comply to the various other standards mentioned in the AFD. But without reliable sources, this doesn't stand a chance on Wikipedia. I know there are some gaming wikis that might be happy to take it, I just don't know them myself. GRBerry 01:11, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Patty Columbo / Patricia Columbo – Endorse deletion, egregious WP:BLP violations and nominator has been indefinitely blocked – 20:45, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
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See also Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/ColScott, including this diff.

Sources accurate (newspaper) Notability established...does not violate BLP since you cannot defame a triple murderer by definition Spawnopedia 18:37, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse deletion Either this is a copyright violation and should be deleted under WP:CSD#G12 because Spawnopedia is a different user, or it is a banned user creating new pages and should be deleted under WP:CSD#G5. The article also massively fails WP:BLP as it is unsourced and highly negative, so it also falls under WP:CSD#G10. Either way it should be deleted for two reasons. GRBerry 18:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, huge failure of WP:BLP regardless of who it's about. I don't like the use of G4 as the reason for deleting Patty Columbo (as G4 does not apply to speedy deletions), but per GRBerry, it would still be G12, G10 and/or G5. --Coredesat 18:54, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Coredesat, maybe you can learn something while roboting. BLP is about AVOIDING defamation of living people. Defamation involves destroying someone's reputation. By definition, a triple murderess in jail for 300 years HAS NO REPUTATION. Learn! Spawnopedia 19:09, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Well, do some research people- it is NOT G5 since COLSCOTT created the page well before he was banned. Look at the history . Make up some other reason.Spawnopedia 19:10, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Furthermore it is very well sourced GRBERRY so G10 fails. It is not an attack page (how can you call a murderer being called a muderer an attack. So actually NONE of these are accurate. But let's see what you do. This will be right up there with Colbert. Spawnopedia 19:12, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment Looking again, I've found at least one version of the article that had some sources, however the cited sources do not verify all of the negative material in the article. So maybe the G10 reason is debatable. But the G12/G5 still stands; if Spawnopedia is ColScott, then the recent creations are after ColScott's ban and G5 applies, if Spawnopedia is not ColScott then a copyright violation is being committed and G12 applies. Since the right answer is deletion either way, we don't need to know the outcome of the suspected sock puppet report to know that this article needs to remain deleted. GRBerry 19:23, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: WP:BLP applies to every single living human being, not just to people with a clean sheet. The fact that you feel someone has no reputation anymore is irrelevant. WP:BLP is binding and unconditional. AecisBravado 19:32, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
So then please RIGHT THIS MINUTE go delete the Charles Manson article. It accuses him of horrible things, is not sourced AT all and he is a Living Being. Go on I 'll wait.Spawnopedia 19:37, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Now that you are logical- BLP only exists to protect from defamation. If I say GW Bush humps children that is defamatory because we don't know he actually humps children. But if I write that Scooter Libby performed criminal acts- this doesn't violate BLP because, umm he did. So stating that Columbo is a triple murderess who traded anal sex for hitmen is not defamatory SINCE IT HAPPENED. I mean come one, learn about the world. Spawnopedia 19:37, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • The monkey logic doesn't work here Berry. If I am ColScott, then the article SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN DELETED TO BEGIN WITH. Go back to the history. It was deleted by Centrx because the article was by the banned COLSCOTT in direct VIOLATION of G5. So either I am REINSTATING an article that never should have been banned in the first place and I am not VIOLATING Col Scott's alleged and unenforceable copyright. You cannot make up nonsense situations to support nonsense. Or let me put this another way, Berry. If I go and write my own version of the article using the same sources and you gonna us G 56 to delete it? Spawnopedia 19:33, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Deletion per GRBerry. The article massively fails WP:BLP. The fact that someone is strongly disliked by some members of society does not give us license to host their defamation. alphachimp 19:43, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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List of tools for static code analysis – Deletion endorsed, new article created – trialsanderrors 00:23, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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10 minutes of no discussion is not consensus. BTW I'm not sure about the reason, so I want a real discussion! Cate | Talk 18:07, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We should only list Wikipedia articles, I fear. Any external links should be banned. - Ta bu shi da yu 18:21, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment could someone copy the old article to temporary page? So I can create a category, thus avoiding the link spam problem. Also the new article seems to attrack spam. The deletion process was to fast to improve the situation. Cate | Talk 07:18, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted but allow the new one--let's just start over here, and stick with tools for which we have articles. Chick Bowen 18:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse - and recreate - per Chick Bowen and Ral315. Angus McLellan (Talk) 00:19, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted, but allow the new article I second that no discussion != consensus. However, the current state of the article is a good start. Any truly relevant information can be pulled from the deleted history and integrated into the current article. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 01:48, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • The relevant speedy criterion is WP:CSD#A3 – rephrasing of the title and external links only = link farm. But it looks like this is being recreated from scratch so if the new version stands we can close this. ~ trialsanderrors 03:33, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • recreate seems reasonable. I would say relist except that recreate will probably result in a better article, given the comments above. Most linkfarms can be reduced to appropriate lists. There was after all no discussion--there was a total of one person participating in afd, and this is simply not enough. This was not fair procedure, and Im glad others agree. DGG 02:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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And The World Goes 'Round – Restore history under new article; no WP:CSD#G4 deletion has occurred, so nothing to review – 16:11, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
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After I created an article for this notable off-Broadway revue of Kander and Ebb material, I was amazed to discover one once existed and was deleted after discussion by a number of people who don't seem to be particularly theater-oriented. I don't know what the original article's content was but I believe the one I created contains sufficient info to warrant its existence. SFTVLGUY2 15:17, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • As long as the text isn't the same from the original, you have no issue with it being speedy deleted, because it shouldn't qualify. Recommend speedy close as there's nothing to discuss here, but I do suggest the nom add some sources pronto. --badlydrawnjeff talk 15:25, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restore history (which I've already done for now). The deleted article was mostly a song list and I can't say any great injustice was done by deleting it, although if the creator of the current article wants to dig it out and salvage what material was there that's fine too. Congrats to nom on creating a far better article than the previous one, although it does need sources. Perhaps this, mentioned in the AfD, might be helpful? Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:32, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Wikipedia:List of media personalities who have vandalised WikipediaMerge closure overturned, relisted at MfDtrialsanderrors 00:25, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Admin decision was to merge. Have another look at the MFD, and you'll hardly find consensus to merge at all! 5 people wanted it merged, and yet there are 30-50 editors participating in this. Can someone PLEASE urgently have another look at the MFD before the page is entirely screwed up?! Ta bu shi da yu 12:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Overturn and relist. The prior discussion has been tainted and we are best off starting anew. Silensor 12:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist. While I believe it could've been a reasonable solution that could stop all the bickering, it clearly isn't a concensus one. The discussion should continue rather than being closed early. Contributors should be asked to address each other's arguments rather than simply re-hashing their opinion. - Mgm|(talk) 13:15, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I promise to only state my opinion, and not respond to anyone else's. However, do we now have to alert all those people for yet another MFD? Are we now saying that all those people in the first and second deletion discussions have their opinion discounted? Hardly seems fair. - Ta bu shi da yu 13:18, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist - I've put merge tags on the article between the time the MfD closed and the DRV opened. Should merging discussion take place at the section I started at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia in the media#Proposed merge, or should it all be kept in one place? If we do relist, can it be made clear that this is a choice between three options - keep, delete, and merge. And please ask those who support one of those options to say why the other options are not valid. Don't just support your option and remain silent on the other options. Carcharoth 13:35, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Interestingly, we can't give only three options, because it's not a vote but a discussion. Sorry, but I accidently said "vote" and was horribly jumped on by another admin, so I'm not trying to make life difficult, but it's just not the way AFD or MFD is run. Don't shoot the messenger, incidently, I didn't come up with the idea. - Ta bu shi da yu 13:40, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure, what Carcaroth produced was by far the best solution, something which I said later on, segregate it's contents. Vandalism is a rather high-handed term used by Wikipedians, and will attract nothing but lawsuits from irate celebrities/journalists. As an end-note, I'd say bainer used his discretion in interpreting the policy, and has done so very wisely. — Nearly Headless Nick 13:38, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and relist, for various problems exposed during the MfD, lots of WP:ILIKEITs, ugly WP:CANVAS, lots of (IMO misplaced) appeals to WP:DENY, and the closure that IMO came out of the blue. It's best to start anew. Duja 13:40, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure. This was not my preferred solution. I voted to delete outright. But given the heated arguements on both sides, this is an eminently sensible compromise that allows the keepers to preserve their information and the deleters to be rid of a page they feel is bad for the encyclopedia. There's no need for a 'winner takes all' solution.--Docg 13:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Actually, so far those who voted delete (and who are in the minority) seem to have actually been the winners in this little debate. If you can't destroy the article totally, merge it into another page and then start reverting (that's the scenario I see, and I'm not saying Doc would do this). - Ta bu shi da yu 13:46, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Please assume the good faith of all. Have you evidence that such a disreputable strategy is in view, or are you just throwing muck about? And it is less that helpful for you to continue to harass every !vote that doesn't go your way. Your doing that was one of the problems with this AfD. Calm down a little, the encyclopedia won't collapse whatever outcome we arrive at here.--Docg 13:53, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • Actually, I was vigorous in my debate and pursued each argument to delete with as much logic and passion as I felt was required. Please show me where I strayed off topic in the debate itself? Unless this debate wasn't actually a debate at all, and I'm not allowed to oppose deletion? My ideas of a cabal, incidently, may seem strange, but I've seen it first hand. You can laugh at me if you want - that's your perogative. - Ta bu shi da yu 13:58, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: my close was an effort to reach a reasonable and sensible outcome from a nasty situation, so that we could move on. I felt there was sufficient reason to close it as I did, as can be seen from my notes (in the box at the top of the debate), but I have no objection to another debate if that's what everyone really wants. --bainer (talk) 13:49, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Out of interest, how did you think merging would be reasonable? You see, if you merge then you either lose the characteristics of the original article (and thus your merge has become a delete by another name), and if you merge into it's own section (say "vandalism by the media") then you in essence have the same "issue" of allow journalists to brag about their vandalism! How was your compromise a decent solution again? - Ta bu shi da yu 13:55, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse - read the closing admins comments. They make perfect sense. XfD is not a vote, the numbers make no difference. The closing comments show a lot of thought, and were obviously not make in haste. I cant personally think of a better solution  Glen  13:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • What, this is a popularity contest all of a sudden? I'm not here to impress anyone (and in fact, I know that I've pissed off more than a few). There was consensus, incidently, to keep, not merge. And that was in BOTH of the discussions. And, excuse me, but I am well aware that this is not a vote but a discussion. I should know, I've had to have two discussions on the one blasted article now. I don't thank you for reminding me of something I evidently already know. Stop trying to ram that fact down my throat. I also need to respond to your accusations that the arguments made were worthless and without basis. They were not. We argued that it would be interesting and show how the 4th Estate deals with new and emerging media, unless you have forgotten that? They are all valid reasons for keeping the article. - Ta bu shi da yu 14:11, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist - the merge was clearly not a result of the discussion, and with all the heated arguments and inappropriate actions that went on, t's easy for people to lose their heads - so the AfD ended with the wrong result for the wrong reason. Trying it again is the only logical action. WilyD 14:02, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist Though this is essentially a worthless usage of the Wikipedia space (not even worth a merge in my opinion), and another AfD will probably be an ugly mess, there were enough problems with the earlier AfD that it should probably be done over. I have to agree with Nick though, the "consensus" was based on pretty weak reasoning and I agree with closure as a delete in principle because numerical counts are not nearly as important as strength of argument.--Isotope23 14:32, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Amazing! So in other words, we should be cowtowing to the closing admin? Amazing. So in other words, even if a whole bunch of people don't want it deleted, we ignore them. Has something changed on AFD? It appears to have changed from "consensus" to "who can make the best argument and make it sound great"! So, let the best orator win, I suppose? - Ta bu shi da yu 14:42, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Disagree if you want, but "consensus" based on poor reasoning tantamount to WP:ILIKEIT isn't really a consensus. Nothing has changed. Besides, I said nothing about cowtowing; I said it should be relisted and those who opined Keep should probaby try and come up with a better set of arguments next time around because "useful" and "interesting" are not very compelling reasons to keep.--Isotope23 14:53, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • For goodness sake, then what about those with a good set of arguments that it was to be kept? Do we ignore them? No offense intended here, but it sounds very much like a bias in favour of the small minority who said "delete", with no better arguments than the keep camp! - Ta bu shi da yu 15:24, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • Not at all; some of the deletion opinions were poorly supported too. My point is simply this, if you factor out the opinions that were poorly supported on both sides it is not the landside "Keep" that it would initially appear to be from a strict numerical count. This is all a bit of an academic argument though because like I said above it should be relisted at AfD for a fresh run through that process, and my opinion that this is a worthless page is just that; an opinion. I honestly have no plan to participate in the AfD if it is relisted. I just hope this time around the supporting reasons for opinions are a bit better.--Isotope23 16:15, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist per above, although I'm very tempted to just say overturn given the circumstances. --badlydrawnjeff talk 14:48, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist Incoherent close. Catchpole 15:24, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn close was entirely against the consensus reached.  ALKIVAR 16:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse • Unencyclopedic content should not be on Wikipedia. Period. ✎ Peter M Dodge ( Talk to MeNeutrality Project ) 17:04, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn, this was misclosed. There was no consensus for deletion; while bainer is welcome to suggest a merge, there was no consensus for that either. Had strong arguments been made for a particular outcome in the MFD, a closure other than no consensus might be reasonable, but there were no compelling arguments for any outcome. Christopher Parham (talk) 17:42, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Whoa there. As a meta-topic, vandalism of the project which has been solicited or inspired by media figures has obvious merit. Of course it needs to be properly cited and stated neutrally, and maybe it should be on Meta not in the Wikipedia namespace, and maybe the title should be toned down a bit, but it's pretty clear that several people would like to preserve this content in a place where it does ont violate what is, to my eyes, the only policy it did violate in mainspace, which is self-reference. Why can't we discuss this calmly? If people object to the format or something then surely we can fix that without resorting to verbal fisticuffs? Guy (Help!) 17:56, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Mu. Several people in this debate keep referring to it as if it were AFD, which seems to show that they have not read the MFD. We are not here to rehash the MFD itself, merely the closure. That said, "Merge" was not a consensus opinion of the MFD, so Overturn (likely as no consensus, despite the AFD result) and take it to the talk page to figure out the next step. That may be merge after all, but that is not to be decided here and was not decided in the MFD in my opinion. -- nae'blis 18:13, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist Let's try it again at MFD. I think the issue at hand isn't whether it's encyclopedic or not, but whether or not the deletion discussion was handled properly, which I don't think happened. I probably would vote delete in there, but regardless of what I think, Consensus must be respected. Just H 18:33, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist without votestacking and associated dramatics. The bainer's decision appeals to me, but I don't see a consensus for it. Angus McLellan (Talk) 19:09, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn. My opinion is that it would be better if this were simply overturned without relisting this anywhere. This has already been subjected to one prior AfD, which reached the conclusion that this should be kept, with a suggestion that it should be moved out of article space and into project space to avoid self-reference. That has been done. Nothing has really changed, and as even "consensus can change" notes, "it is strongly frowned upon to keep nominating an article to WP:AFD until it reaches the outcome you prefer." And nothing really has changed since a decision was made to keep this. What I think has changed is that the deletion process has become more hostile to "keep" opinions, thanks largely to an increasing volume of argumentative responses to "keep" opinions. - Smerdis of Tlön 20:47, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn Despite the legitimate concerns of votestacking, I feel it was unwise to not take into account that the AfD had an overwhelming consensus for keeping this but moving it to the Wikipedia namespace. Not too many people actually go through the MfD debates and the nomination should probably have been speedy closed given the very clear consensus of the initial debate. Pascal.Tesson 23:23, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist To clean up the mess with a fresh start. No side taken. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 00:13, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn, allow relist. The deletes don't want it merged (I would prefer just a straight keep to that). The keeps don't either. No consensus there. -Amark moo! 00:40, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure, it's clearly valid. No, the numbers don't point to merging. However, the numbers aren't important, and MfD is not a vote. A lot of people wanted to delete it saying it wasn't worth having a page for this, and a lot wanted to keep it saying it is useful information. A merge is a fair compromise in which the content is kept, pleasing the people who wanted it kept, but it's combined with another page, so there's no individual page for it, pleasing the people who wanted it kept. How is this not the best solution? --Rory096 01:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist - merging is not a compromise, it's a seperate action. Milto LOL pia 02:10, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Admins are called on to interpret the debate. As Doc Glasgow says, in this case merger does accommadate most of the concerns expressed on both sides (even if not their bolded "votes"). Eluchil404 03:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I don't want it merged. I much prefer a keep to a merge, so calling it a compromise, at least from my perspective, makes no sense. -Amark moo! 04:45, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. While the close was a decent one (from an outsider's perspective), it doesn't quite seem it was a consensus that could have been reached from the Mfd discussion. Of course, it should be noted that most people seem completely unwilling to compromise (whether through a merge or by addressing the issues that brought the article to Mfd), so a relist will merely result in some sort of shitty head count that will probably result in some form of keep. It's a bit troubling that deletion debates rarely result in compromise, but this will never change until Xfd becomes more than a head count. --- RockMFR 06:25, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • That misses the fact that it isn't really a compromise. I wanted it deleted, but if we're assuming it will not be deleted, I want it just kept, not merged. How is it then a compromise to merge it? -Amark moo! 15:39, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse - this seems less like an attack against the media personalities.--Azer Red Si? 23:07, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse, reasonable compromise. Why are people so upset about this anyway? >Radiant< 16:00, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Not sure. As far as I can tell, the list was created in article space on 2 August 2006 by Ta bu shi da yu (the edit history was later moved, which is why the edit there seems to refer to Wikipedia namespace). It was PRODded by an IP address on 22 August with the comment "Do re [sic] really need this type of list around here, see WP:ASR and WP:LC". It was then taken to AfD by its creator. It survived the AfD (closed as keep by Mailer diablo on 27 August 2006), but on 27 November 2006 was moved to Wikipedia namespace by Duja with the edit summary "moved [...] Per the RM" (presumably this requested move - opened by ContiE on 21 November 2006, closed by Duja on 27 November 2006). The crossnamespace redirect was later (1 January 2007) deleted by CanadianCaesar. The Wikipedia namespace page was then put up at MfD recently (18 January 2007) by Azer Red (who thought it was a category). At the MfD the page creator mounted a vigorous defence. I (Carcharoth) suggested a compromise to merge to the normal Wikipedia in the news pages, which some people agreed with. The closing admin (bainer) went with the merge compromise and closed the MfD on 23 January 2007. The page creator took the MfD to DRV on 23 January 2007, just after I had added the merge tags and started a merge discussion here. And here we are, at the DRV. I think that is a fairly comprehensive history, though there are doubtless discussions of this in other corners of Wikipedia. Carcharoth 16:53, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • AARGH. How is it a compromise? My continuum of desired outcome goes Delete-->Keep-->Vandalize-->Merge. I would much prefer it kept than merged. Stop presenting it as a compromise. -Amark moo! 02:59, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure per Nearly Headless Nick. JoshuaZ 02:54, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse not my preferred outcome, but I can't see how running through the MFD again is likely to be helpful, and the result is within the bounds of admin discretion when closing such a debate. --pgk 12:17, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The above is an archived debate of the deletion review of the article above. Please do not modify it.
Everywhere Girl – Deletion endorsed by established editors, redirect set – trialsanderrors 00:28, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The following is an archived debate of the deletion review of the article above. Please do not modify it.

Preemptive reminder: The AFD resulting in deletion had to be courtesty blanked due to content therein. Use courtesy here so that doesn't have to occur again. GRBerry 15:53, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Everywhere Girl (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|AfD)
Everywhere girl (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Jennifer Chandra (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Everywhere Girl (3rd nomination)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Everywhere Girl (2nd nomination)
Wikipedia:Deletion review/Recently concluded (2006 July)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jennifer Chandra

High profile article, generates lots of interest DLX 09:34, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Everywhere Girl article should be restored, as it is high-profile article that generates lots of user interest. While I am not a fan of "everywhere girl" - more like the opposite - it is painfully obvious that we are dealing with powerful Internet meme. Like the talk page says, this is a well known internet meme - and also a good example of what happens, when too many agencies use stock photos.
Also, deletion of this article has generated huge amounts of very bad publicity for Wikipedia. Accusations that deletion is a anti-Inquirer crusade of some administrators; articles and blog posts "What is wrong with Wikipedia" and more. I think that best solution would be just to restore the page. DLX 09:34, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Restore Article --Lawdy 10:36, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the above statement by DLX, and fully support the restoration of the Everywhere Girl article. --Lawdy 10:36, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn the previous decision. If proof is what is wanted, proof is what will be given.
Her image, used in the packaging of a wireless security kit.[61] Microsoft also saw fit to use another of her photos.[62][63] As have HP.[64]
Someone liked the look of it and used it on their book.[65] And the BBC still use it.[66] A discount card for students![67] TCF are on the bandwagon as well. [68] A company which produces caffeine pills saw fit to use one.[69]
Here's another website who keeps track.[70] They have nothing to do with the unmentionable inquirer, before someone asks.
I can trawl the internet and find more, if someone insists, but anyone can do it. Let it be known that I do not simply 'like' this meme. But denying its notability is absurd. This is not just another case of stock photography. These photos have been used and re-used by far too many companies and websites to count, and they are being used even today. It has endured far longer than other, less notable memes have (memes that have their mention in wikipedia I hasten to add). Perhaps this article keeps being remade and its deletion reviewed for good reason. If it is possible to interpret wikipedia policy to warrant the eradication of articles such as this, the policies themselves are at fault. I've said in the past that some administrators delete the article just because the inquirer popularized it, but I'll happily shut up and change my thoughts should I be proven wrong. The one reason I press the issue of this article is one of principle, not personal likes or dislikes. -Skorpus McGee 12:48, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have to tell you that this is canonical original research. Guy (Help!) 14:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Is original research forbidden also in deletion reviews, not only articles? DLX 14:40, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Because we can't use original research in the article, it is almost always useless for AFD and deletion review purposes. When the issue, as here, is whether there is adequate reliable sourcing to sustain an article, it is without practical use. GRBerry 22:08, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn deletion per above comments. To deny the notability of this meme is pushing the bounds of absurdity. Silensor 12:56, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion I can think of few things more inherently unnotable than individual clip-art/stock-photos. A zillion WP:ILIKEIT comments do not override our core policy or our basic values as an encyclopedia. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 13:23, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, AFD closure was sound (WP:ILIKEIT does not trump WP:V), and the G4s that resulted were also valid. Websites the stock photos are used on are not reliable sources, and neither is that blog entry. --Coredesat 13:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • If there's ever a place that WP:BIO's "just because someone doesn't fall into one of these categories doesn't mean an article on the person should automatically be deleted" clause should be enacted, this is it. Undoubtedly verifiable, and undoubtedly "notable," most of the quibbling comes from the fact that this has taken on a life of its own as a web meme and that one publication is angry that we deleted it. So what? This isn't WP:ILIKEIT as much as WP:IDONTLIKEIT. --badlydrawnjeff talk 13:55, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    If you think it's notable, find and provide reliable sources that prove that assertion. So far, there haven't been any. --Coredesat 13:58, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, a few have been, for sure. The Inquirer is reliable, and technically meets the standard for multiple, non-trivial. Our fear of web sources isn't helping, either, though, and we have enough information to make an article. We're attaching ourselves too much to "notability" when our guidelines already allow for articles like this. Meanwhile, the only assertion I'm making is that it's WP:IDONTLIKEIT because it is. Referring to this phenomenon as simply "stock photos" is an attempt to dismiss something that's larger than that - she's arguably the most well-known model of her kind in the field. --badlydrawnjeff talk 14:11, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Arguably. But we don't have a source for that. All we have is some amusing detective work at the Inquirer by some guys who thought it was funny that the same girl appeared in ads for two competing firms, and set out to find all the other uses of her photo that they could. Has this been tried for any other stock models? Inquirer is not reliable for this, as it's their project. Has it been picked up in the advertising journals, Campaign, for example? Guy (Help!) 14:29, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, I say "arguably" because people will always disagree when you say something like I said. This is certainly the only model of her kind that I know the name of, for sure, and a quick Google search seems to indicate that I'm not alone in that. This isn't actually the Inquirer's project - this was on various websites long before the Inquirer picked it up, and it ballooned from there. I know I'm fighting a battle I can't win on this one, but there you have it. --badlydrawnjeff talk 14:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Deletion The bottom line is that there was nothing out of process about the original deletion and recreations were deleted as well. If we are taking this beyond that fact and starting to argue merit as an AfD, I have to disagree with Jeff here, this is simply a stock photo situation coupled with one publication writing stories about the fact that she is a fairly prolific stock photo model. From what I see there is 1 other reliable source that has taken notice of this (and [1 possibly reliable). It isn't WP:ILIKEIT vs WP:IDONTLIKEIT... it's the fact that this was an AfD and subsequent collection of deletions that all appear to have been done within the process on a series of articles where editors are asserting this is a meme and I just don't see the evidence.--Isotope23 14:23, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Please remember, that WP:ILIKEIT and WP:IDONTLIKEIT are not official Wikipedia policies.DLX 14:40, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Right, which is why I said "It isn't WP:ILIKEIT vs WP:IDONTLIKEIT". The core problem here is that it is being argued that this deserves an article based on the concept that it is a meme and there is not supporting evidence to suggest that this is in any way a widely known or pervasive meme. That is the real issue beyond the fact that there is no evidence any of these deletions were done out of process.--Isotope23 16:19, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Would Urban Dictionary be an acceptable source for you? DLX 16:46, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    No, Urban Dictionary is probably the furthest thing from a reliable source.--Isotope23 17:13, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure AFD was properly closed. No relevant new information has been presented. The number of times her photo has been used is not relevant. What would be relevant would be reliable, independent, published sources that have either non-trivial biographical content (for a biography article) or non-trivial content about the meme. I don't count the Inquirer as independent for an article about the meme; they claim to have discovered/started it. Blogs and forums are not reliable sources, and that is all that has been offered here. GRBerry 16:03, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    To clarify, the ecademy.com site is a blog; look at the very bottom. The Geekextreme appears to be a blog also, and certainly is trivial content. GRBerry 16:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Again, would Urban Dictionary be acceptable? DLX 16:50, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Wikipedia is rejected (by us!) as a source because it is a source that anyone can edit. I've often seen urbandictionary rejected as a source, and it is rejected for the same reason - anyone can add to it, and there is no fact checking process prior to publication. This is also a large part of the reason that blogs and forums are rejected. Read Wikipedia:Reliable sources. GRBerry 16:56, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment This thing is getting just silly. Maybe we should ask from ourself why shouldn't this article be in Wikipedia? It is obvious that it isn't a marketing campaign. The Inquirer or people related to it are not behind the creation of the page. The subject is noteworthy - you don't have to like either The Inquirer or Jennifer Chandra to see that. It generates lots of interest, is well-known and people are looking information about Everywhere Girl from Wikipedia - probably hundreds of page views every day.
    Just for the record, I don't like Everywhere Girl meme myself. But I think that it does belong to Wikipedia - it is diminishing for both us, the Wikipedia editors, and for Wikipedia, that we are even having this discussion. DLX 16:46, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Because having articles that don't meet our standards encourage the creation of more articles that don't meet our standards, diminishing Wikipedia quite severely. The worst of all possible articles is one that is highly popular yet no reliable sources exist - lots of people see it, and learn the wrong things. I'd rather have a poor article on something that almost never gets looked at; it at least does no harm. Having good sourcing is a necessary condition to have a decent article. Letting this exist without adequate sourcing would lead to even more people creating unreliable articles on the blog phenomenon of the minute. That is not what an encyclopedia needs. GRBerry 16:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    This is a horrid fallacy, IMO. In actuality, not having an article on something so obvious ends up harming us more because it gives the appearance that we're actively avoiding a subject. This is a problem with our reliable sourcing criteria and with our "notability" guidelines that needs to be fixed, but no one seems to think that holding a web meme to the same standard as a historical figure is crazy except me, it appears. --badlydrawnjeff talk 16:56, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, as you said in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Notability (memes), our standards in this specific area probably won't change until things change in our general standards for reliable sources. I think sooner or later both Wikipedia and the wider society will develop better methods of handling blogs. Right now, we mostly filter them through the traditional media. But I'd rather let the rest of society lead there, and have Wikipedia follow; I suspect you'd rather lead society. GRBerry 17:08, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    We're actually way behind society. Internet blogs and self-published stories have been picked up as reliable sources by the mainstream in general for ages - as early as Rathergate or as recent as the kerfluffle with Michael Richards. The sooner we catch up with society, the better. --badlydrawnjeff talk 17:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Be that as it may, policy does not allow it. User:Zoe|(talk) 17:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Nor am I saying that it does. Your help in changing that would be greatly appreciated, though. --badlydrawnjeff talk 17:32, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. WP:ILIKEIT is not a retention criterion. User:Zoe|(talk) 17:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Would this parallel Lenna in any way? (otoh, Lenna has scores of references in primary literature, which this probably does not. Hmph) --Kim Bruning 17:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge to The Inquirer... that's an article on a notable subject to which this 'meme', and their ongoing rants against Wikipedia over it, is highly relevant. --CBD 17:55, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Has merit. Guy (Help!) 17:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Good idea. I support this. DLX 18:18, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Reasonable to add some content there. Given some of the things I've seen digging into this, it will need to be watched by an established editor for a while to be sure that sourcing standards remain high, WP:SELF is followed, and, even more importantly WP:NPA is followed. Anyone could do this while this review is open and moot the review, hint, hint... GRBerry 18:21, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    So instead of it not having enough sourcing here, we have it not have enough sourcing there? Besides the fact that this isn't limited only to the Inquirer, the Inquirer article appears to be long enough without this information, does it not? --badlydrawnjeff talk 18:22, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I think we end up with a paragraph over there, which can be sourced from the Inquirer - they are definitely a reliable source for that they have said. It seems they keep publishing about its adventure here at Wikipedia, which is why abiding by WP:SELF will be an issue. GRBerry 19:01, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Precisely. A bit like letting the editors on the YTMND article document in the article those fads the YTMND community considers to be significant. Guy (Help!) 21:08, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    The merge-a-single-line-or-two (is there really enough for a paragraph? The Inquirer appears to have abandoned Everywhere Girl since her identity was revealed in afd and there wasn't much to say in the first place) was suggested by the delete side (can't remember who) in the last afd. I don't mind this (I think) unless the content is excessive - particularly bearing in mind WP:BLP privacy concerns for the actress (who asked for the last afd to be blanked after it was over. Bwithh 08:02, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn. I fail to see why this article in particular is so undeserving of Wikipedi-ation, with so many other Internet Phenomena being considered acceptable. (It seems like a thread on SomethingAwful and Fark.com all that's needed for something to be listed there.) The Inquirer is already considered an "acceptable" news source, even if they don't have a print edition, and I can't think that anyone is seriously accusing The Inq. and/or the girl herself of setting this all up as some sort of viral marketting scheme. Furthermore, even if it wasn't originally deserving of an article, as a "meta-article" it certainly is (i.e., although IMO there are sufficient references to the phenomenon in and of itself, there appear to be even *more* references now specifically referring to the Wikipedia page controversy). There are plenty of other topics on Wikipedia more banal and without 97K hits about it on Google. Etcetera 07:00, 24 January 2007 (UTC) Jccleaver (talkcontribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
I have to disagree with the above tag of me as a "single purpose account". I've had an account on Wikipedia for over a year, and make edits when I feel I have something to contribute to a topic, or a correction to be made. What is the standard for an "spa"? 20 edits? 50 edits? 100 edits? Etcetera 18:32, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion No new evidence provided. Arguments offered were discussed at very extended length by a large number of users in the last afd. Not a "powerful internet meme" or a "high profile" subject but a self-fabricated sensation by a single tabloid-style publication (The Inquirer) over an ordinary stock photo actress. There have been no more stories in the Inquirer focusing on Everywhere Girl since her identity was revealed in the last afd in July 2006[71]. Wikiparrot Bwithh 07:52, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure Jennifer Chandra, the "Everywhere Girl" as coined by the Inquirer, is still just as unnotable as she was when the article was deleted. No new evidence of notability has been provided, and ever since the article was deleted the only times I've noticed the "Everywhere Girl" name pop up in the Inquirer website is when the editors there attack me and Wikipedia for having deleted the article. Dionyseus 08:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse restoration and banning of admin who deleted article because of false accusations Simply because the administrator had falsely accused the article of being recreated by something that didn't and banning it, then it should be reverted to the previous state. In addition, wikipedia is more of a history log ... in fact, that's what encyclopedias are, to have information. Everything should be defined, unless something else takes the name. So, I don't see why we should listen to users who violate the definition of an encyclopedia —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ScythedBlade (talkcontribs) 08:41, 24 ScythedBlade (talkcontribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
  • Restoration requested I came to Wikipedia to find information about the Everywhere Girl because all of my pupils at school were talking about her in my science classes. I assumed that if a class of Norwegian school children seem to know about this person, then she must be notable. From the discussion it seems that one has to be notable in the right way. So, I would appreciate the article being restored so that I can follow up on what my pupils find topical and of importance. CaviaPorcellus 12:01, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Do we really need any more reasons for restoring the article? DLX 13:05, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Hearing students discussing a person doesn't make the subject notable enough to be included in Wikipedia. I'm curious as to what compelled your students to discuss her, and how you managed to find this deletion review discussion. The website that created Everywhere Girl, The Inquirer, has not mentioned her recently unless I missed something, so I'm curious as to why your students would be talking about her today. Dionyseus 13:58, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    You missed something, the Inquirer posted something last week, see the footnotes in The Inquirer. That something, however, is trivial and an article making use of it fails WP:SELF. GRBerry 14:43, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • New comment: Second story here, requires a subscription to access the archives, unfortunately, but it was a story on Everywhere Girl in the San Antonio Express-News. It now meets the "multiple" standard of WP:BIO. --badlydrawnjeff talk 14:56, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    It does not meet the "multiple" criteria of WP:BIO because the work you are referring to is trivial coverage. Dionyseus 22:16, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn per the above. --Myles Long 15:19, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restore article per the previous comments. Uzza 15:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC) Uzza (talkcontribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
  • Restore article because deletion hurts the reputation of Wikipedia. I was a fan of Wikipedia and have made a few contributions. Was plannning on making more, but now I believe that Wikipedia is controlled/dominated by a bunch a babies. Dave Barnes 15:54, 24 January 2007 (UTC) davebarnes (talkcontribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. I see that we have resorted to ad hominen attacks. I did not create my account for single use. And, yes, I have made few other contributions. So what? Those were made over a year before this mess.Dave Barnes[reply]
    Wow, that comment belongs in BJAODN. User:Zoe|(talk) 16:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge into Stock photography and apply redirects as needed. This is a cautionary tale about the hazards of stock photography, and should be included there. It probably isn't notable anywhere else. --Mdwyer 17:27, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn There's no reason to leave this article removed, at all. There's certainly no reasons that don't apply to every other online phenomenon on wikipedia. Whatever you want to call it, 'Everywhere Girl' is being talked about (and not, I imagine, purely because of the Inquirer) and the people who've come to use Wikipedia as a reference source are going to look here for it. Its absence will either lead them elsewhere, or lead them to research and create an article. If their article then gets deleted for no real reason, that's not going to encourage edits, which is the lifeblood of Wikipedia. Sure, there's little reason for its inclusion (but there's hundreds of articles that applies to), but there's no reason for its exclusion. Lordandmaker 20:20, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wiki has articles that focus of a massive range of fictional subjects, yet for some reason a real social phenomenon does not meet Wiki standards? Sounds like an excellent excersice in hypocrisy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 169.233.30.80 (talkcontribs).
  • This, I think, is overturn if we have enough research to go on. Subject's reaction to the article should count, yet shouldn't decide whether she wants to be included in the wiki or not. - Penwhale | Blast the Penwhale 20:39, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • There was a discussion on the use of stock photography and consumer confusion in my Mass Media Structure class at the University of Washington this morning. The professor mentioned the "Everywhere Girl" phenomenon and many of us immediately searched Wikipedia for it and came up blank. It was only after Googling it that I found the information I needed. One argument for deletion--Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jennifer Chandra--mentions that Jennifer Chandra is not notable as she only has 300+ Google hits. Well, "Everywhere Girl" has 97,000 Google hits. I don't care if the information is merged into an existing article on The Inquirer but, if a search for "everywhere girl" turns up a blank page here, then I'm going to agree with David: Wikipedia failed me too. Ironmaus Ironmaus (talkcontribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
  • I'd never heard of any of this "everywhere girl" business until this morning. (I'm given to understand I should be ashamed of myself for that, but oh well.) Anyway, I read a news article that offhandedly mentioned her. Being curious, I came to my trusty source for up-to-the-minute reference information... Wikipedia. But what? Article deleted?! WIKIPEDIA FAILED ME. I don't know what this debate is about, or what prompted the article to be deleted. Having still not found a single word of content about the mysterious "everywhere girl," I will now have to turn to Google and other websites to find out what all this is really about. What does that tell you about whether or not this article should be restored? David Norris 18:32, 24 January 2007 (UTC)David Norris (talkcontribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]


Notable enough to make it into an online dictionary. Restore!

Over Turn!!! If the everywhere girl cant be here why can this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_baby

  • Overturn numerous media references, she passed WP:WEB... I think that gives her some credence for inclusion on wikipedia.  ALKIVAR 21:49, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Previous afd discussion showed that a single tabloid publication, The Inquirer, was responsible for Everywhere Girl's publicity. Internet mentions were overwhelmingly on personal blogs etc. Bwithh 21:55, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    See above - a second source not noted in previous AfDs has been found. --badlydrawnjeff talk 21:58, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    That source you are referring to is trivial coverage, one of the exclusions for the "multiple sources" criteria from WP:BIO. Dionyseus 22:16, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment on new source The full text of the new source is available (free signup required) through this search page:[72]. The article is from July 2006 and is part of a series called "Office Time Waster" in a local newspaper the San Antonio Express-News - the series is made up of very short articles (between 70 and 200 or so words long) which are essentially "amusing website of the week to look at during your coffee break" articles. Over 50% of the 204 word article on Everywhere Girl focuses on the Inquirer's coverage and the Wikipedia deletion affair. Other websites covered in the series include www.stuffonmycat.com, some obscure simple online maze game (half the websites covered are simple online flash/java/shockwave games, and Yahoo!'s own "interesting websites of the week office timewaster" roundup[73]. This is trivial coverage. Wikipedia is not a web directory. Bwithh 22:28, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I disagree that it's trivial. And it doesn't matter if much of the coverage has to do with the ongoing battle, either. --badlydrawnjeff talk 23:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • All this pontificating about what constitutes policy and doesn't constitute policy is putting me right off WP. I came here tonight to look for info on Everywhere Girl, and couldn't find it. I look here to see why it had been deleted, and see all this rubbish about policy. Does it really hurt for the page to be here? Really? I think WP is in danger of disappearing up its own rectum if things carry on like this. I don't know why some of you insist on complicating things. Its a wiki, nothing more, and you are in danger of alienating people. I vote for restoration. I also vote for people to chill out a bit. --Amdsweb 00:36, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    What made you interested in the Everywhere Girl tonight, doc? Dionyseus 01:49, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Memes. The concept of mems interests me, and after reading about the B3ta memes such as 'The Fear', et cetera looking around for other visual memes brought me to the Everywhere Girl. Is that OK? --Amdsweb 08:44, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • reverse and keep There now enough mentions to establish this as a cultural icon. I'm judging on the subject, I didnt see the article, but everyone who sees a computer magazine has seen the picture. Though we might not have a GFDL image, we could link to an image. And one could make a case for fair use on the basis that the image itself is a new item. In fact, there are enough sources for a new article: the Everywhere girl-Wikipedia controversy. This is a case of using common sense to avoid letting WP look more foolish than it already has.DGG 02:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Remember, we use secondary sources. If we consider The Inquirer a primary source (they created and sustained it, and no reliable source picked on this meme since), then no, there is no way to verify this. -- ReyBrujo 02:48, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm fairly certain that it was only popularized by the Inquirer, not created. So, technically, two reliable sources (at least) have picked up on this, and it is verifiable. The question at this point is notability, which is simply irritating. --badlydrawnjeff talk 03:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    The Inquirer was the place that "discovered" her, one of their writers the one who coined the term for the first time (according to the deleted article). -- ReyBrujo 04:16, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment, I like the proposed idea of merging into The Inquirer. If you want to put it in a way, it is their "symbol". If so, I suggest converting Everywhere Girl and Jennifer Chandra into redirects to The Inquirer, protecting them if necessary. -- ReyBrujo 02:48, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    That idea has possibilities. -- Zanimum 18:02, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 218.102.23.117 (talk) 17:07, 27 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

  • And here is another: The Stock Artists Alliance, a global trade organization of stock photographers, also reported on the Everywhere Girl phenomenon (although they didn't use that term). The organization sent letters to Dell, Gateway, etc. warning them that they had used the same stock photos of EG. [74] (linked pdf documents may require internet explorer)
  • Overturn and Relist. This girl has truly been everywhere! I have seen her in Dell ads, Gateway ads, many different university ads; the list is endless. The real kicker, though, was a few months ago as I was browsing picture frames in our Auburn University Bookstore (Auburn, AL, USA) when, to my shock and delight, there was the Everywhere Girl, in photo frames in my own university's bookstore. I excitedly went around telling the story to half the people in the store, several of whom had heard of the Everywhere Girl and shared my excitement. Those who claim there is insufficient proof must have some axe to grind or else have had their heads in the sand. It would be absurd to delete this article.Walker Hall 06:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn Per comments above Kreca 14:07, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn The Everywhere Girl was considered a valid WP entry until her identity was discovered and made public. Agreed that the Inquirer tech webzine was primarily responsible for the origin and subsequent promotiing of the meme and the revealing of the identity of Jenifer Chandra as "The Everywhere Girl" however this hardly constitues reasons for deletion. The meme has grown beyond the boundries of the orignator and has taken on a life of its own, not least of which has been the questioning of WP standards and guidelines reflected in this very discourse. Regardless of where your line in the sand is drawn on this matter it is obvious this meme has grown beyond the reasonable standards of questionable notability and its absence lessens the WP's reputation and comprehensiveness. This is my first and only contribution to WP thus far. — Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. 09:29, 26 January 2007 (UTC) ConallB (talkcontribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at UTC timestamp [optional] (UTC).
  • The Inquirer making legal threats The Inquirer has posted an article today in which apparently they threaten to sue Wikipedia. Dionyseus 17:38, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    While that's unfortunate, that really has nothing to do with this article. --badlydrawnjeff talk 17:57, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    At the bottom of that article they directly point their viewers to this discussion. Dionyseus 18:01, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Also unfortunate, but whether they feel like they need to make legal recourse has nothing to do with this article's existence. --badlydrawnjeff talk 18:18, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I fail to see any legal threats there. And I also failed to see any threats in the messages that Aaron Brenneman removed - in fact, those were rather friendly requests for comments. Journalist only asked to comment for the story. DLX 18:57, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Apparently the reporter reworded his questions for the article. I do not really think he would say However is seems some little revisionist book-burning Nazis take pleasure in continually libelling us in your pages, a situation we can no longer tolerate. and get an Absolutely. as reply. In case you did not notice, the legal threat is there (of course, unless you have been in contact with our litigious world, you would not recognize the subtle sentence that implies either a legal threat, or disruption attempt). -- ReyBrujo 19:06, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    And the next question is So perhaps we can begin a dialogue.. Seems like a direct threat, doesn't it? And what evidence do you have about rewording the questions for the article? Besides, some comments made by administrators were very insulting - and dead wrong. DLX 19:16, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Indeed. The quote is accurate. I'm puzzled that you would accuse a well-respected news editor of re-wording an e-mail exchange, especially when on the basis of no evidence and without asking the other member of the exchange, me :-). Indeed, there seems to be something of a rot in the line of making libellous comments around this. You should be careful that you don't make such comments. James F. (talk) 18:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm sorry, but that is not a legal threat; I deal with legal threats most days, and I only wish that that was all they were so polite. It's merely an accurate observation that the comments were libellous - and one with which I agreed. People making bad faith assumptions about events on-wiki is absolutely something that we cannot tolerate. James F. (talk) 18:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment At this point some things have become very clear. We have multiple sources, notability and interest about the Everywhere Girl. Therefore, there are no more reasons to keep the article deleted, other then PPOV pushing of some/one administrator(s). So, I am forced to ask those administrators to behave accordingly to Wikipedia guidelines and restore the article - or consider, if they are fit to be Wikipedia administrators any longer. I am sorry, if the previous sentence insults anyone, that was not my intention. Please do remember that we all here want to make Wikipedia better, not to diminish it by our own petty feuds. DLX 19:22, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    We are likely to accept the article back if those "multiple" sources are presented, below this post, one after the other. That is what was asked in the previous deletion review, and that is what is still being asked here. Please, list the sources here (it is not sarcasm, but instead a good hearted request). -- ReyBrujo 19:25, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    They have already been listed above. --badlydrawnjeff talk 19:31, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    That is not what I asked for. What I see is a reference to the Urban Dictionary, some original research searching for her image around, and an article from The Inquirer. Again, DLX, please post down here the list of articles in reliable sources to verify the information. And please, a "see above" is not a reply for me. I am giving the opportunity to clarify this for once, hopefully you will accept my invitation. -- ReyBrujo 19:58, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Then you haven't caught all the sources that have been noted in this discussion for this. --badlydrawnjeff talk 20:26, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Sources (1) Not one, but close to 50 articles in the Inquirer. As the Inquirer is not Jennifer Chandra, they are a valid source (see Reliable sources; (2) San Antonio Express-News article about Everywhere Girl (3) Royalty-Free in the Middle . . ., mentions Everywhere Girl. It is somewhat hard to find the sources, as there are about 90 000 blog entries about her and Google ranks blogs very highly - unlike Wikipedia. DLX 20:30, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for the effort, DLX. At least you are working instead of sitting in a throne because The Inquirer mentioned your username. The first one indeed seems an article about the girl, but the second mentions her in passing as an example of a major issue (stock photography). Hopefully more sources will appear before the review is finished. -- ReyBrujo 20:41, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I think we have needed sources pretty well covered now. Actually, we had them covered as soon as badlydrawnjeff found the article. DLX 20:56, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Wow, that was an unnecessary swipe. I provided the sources yesterday, and I've been fighting for its inclusion for a while. Sheesh. --badlydrawnjeff talk 20:59, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    The second source listed, the San Antonio article, is considered trivial coverage, one of the exclusions from the first WP:BIO criteria. Bwithh explains well why it is trivial coverage. Dionyseus 22:44, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    And I disagree with him, strongly. There's nothing to indicate that it's trivial except that he feels it is - I think it's not trivial - it's not like theyjust list a pile of websites every day. --badlydrawnjeff talk 01:37, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Why aren't the images on the various websites considered sources? The Everywhere Girl is about the proliferation of stock photography, so therefore the numerous websites showing that image should be considered sources to back up the claim.--207.93.211.50 23:09, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Because that would be a synthesis which runs afoul of WP:OR. JoshuaZ 01:50, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I really dont see the connection to OR, JoshuaZ; the proposal is being made that we extend our definition of reliable source a little to accommodate this exceptional case, and perhaps it will be found useful also in other cases of visual culture. In fact I do not recall seeing anything in any policy that said a source had to be words. If anybody should be willing to extend itself for new things, it's WP.DGG 05:51, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    You don't "extend" guidelines or policies in this way, you discuss in their pages and try to obtain consensus. Currently, we have an article about an internet meme that is, basically, a person. So, the subject needs to pass our notability rules, like the ones for people and web. Since the proposal for memes was rejected, we need to use a mixture of existing guidelines. Now, Everywhere Girl is about a girl who has done some pics for an agency, right? Now, this could have been anyone of those who took pictures along with her. I am guessing someone who was in the same session is as repeated as her. Why is she pointed out? Because The Inquirer pointed her out. It could have been "Everywhere Man" or "Everywhere Dog", but they first discovered the girl. Now, The Inquirer created this "topic", and with time, forums and blogs everywhere picked it up. Companies continued to use her image as it is a cheap photography that can be used in many situations ("cheap" as in, not like getting Claudia Schiffer to advertise a school). Now, these sites could have requested images from Everywhere Girl because she was well known, and since The Inquirer soon or later would link to them just because the girl is there, they may get some more traffic to their site. That could have happened, but we have no proof. And without proof, this assumption is original research. So, we go one step back. The Inquirer created a meme, and blogs and forums picked it up. Our article about internet memes has even a section for this kind of use, forced meme, when the site tries again and again to force that meme on everyone (in example, Wikipedia). Anyways, let's see some examples for internet memes in Wikipedia article about it, and at list of Internet phenomena:
    1. Zero Wing started the All your base are belong to us: I think nobody can object this one. It may have been the biggest one ever until Numa Numa, and even The Inquirer picked it up (All your base are belong to Costa Rica and All your base are belong to EDS.
    2. Numa Numa. An internet company down here in Argentina created an advertisement with a video similar to the Flash video shown here. I am absolutely sure similar situations have popped around the world with this video.
    3. Leeroy Jenkins. I do not play World of Warcraft, but by just reading the article, it appears to be quite notable, doesn't it? While it did not write an article about him, he was mentioned at Jeopardy!, a program I know about thanks to programs where people watch it.
    Now, truly speaking, has Everywhere Girl reached the level of exposure these three memes acquired? I have not heard about her other than in The Inquirer and around here. She has not been featured in media other than The Inquirer and an article at "San Antonio Express-News". We can condense this discussion in two core policies. The first one is Wikipedia:Verifiability (we need secondary sources, not primary ones; since The Inquirer is a primary source for this topic, it can't be used. I quote Articles should rely on reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. Sources should be appropriate to the claims made: exceptional claims require stronger sources; the website of a school or a company displaying an image is not considered a "source with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy"); and Wikipedia:No original research (we need a secondary source—in example, The New York Times—making the claim that the sites used the image because they knew they would attract more users; since we cannot claim they did that on purpose because we don't have any reference, we must be conservative and assume they did use the images of Everywhere Girl because they picked them randomly out of a picture bottle without knowing anything about this "meme").
    In other words, we need something other than blogs, forums, website homepages and The Inquirer. DLX presented two mentions, others can analyze them before giving an opinion. I hope this is now clearer. Opinions like "Overturn, she is well known/she is in many webpages/this is absurd/I will lose faith in Wikipedia" do not help: since this is not a votation, they pile on and give the impression to sites that are not used with our definition of Wikipedia:Consensus that we are nazis. If you want to really "help" Everywhere Girl, find reliable secondary sources talking about her: an interview in a magazine or online site (a real magazine or online site, not an interview at MySpace or some Geocities page), an article describing the Everywhere Girl phenomena in detail (and not as an example of a bigger issue), etc. -- ReyBrujo 06:33, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    "Now, this could have been anyone of those who took pictures along with her. I am guessing someone who was in the same session is as repeated as her." - ReyBrujo, this is a reasonable assumption if you have not had time to look at the photos in question, but it is totally incorrect. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 218.102.23.127 (talkcontribs).
  • Overturn; claiming that someone "caught the zeitgeist fancy" is nontrivial coverage. Merging with The Inquirer remains an option. Kappa 01:53, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Could you explain how a single 4 word claim is non-trivial? JoshuaZ 02:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I believe the meaning of these four words are clear to most native speakers of English, wiktionary probably has entries for them if you need help, even zeitgeist. Kappa 01:54, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • 'Overturn. She was on the front page of a paper!-PlasmaDragon 02:11, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure, keep deleted, already reviewed once and closure was endorsed, nothing significant has changed since then. Dpbsmith (talk) 02:26, 26 January 2007 (UTC) P. S. By the way, whatever happened to Eon8, a similarly non-notable Internet non-meme that we were assured, in a very similar discussion, was absolutely guaranteed to be an important part of Internet history? Dpbsmith (talk) 02:28, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion After spending a large part of the last hour online, I can fine no sources that are non-trivial, independent and reliable. No independent reliable source is more than a handful of words demonstrating not much more than existence. The AfD decision was correct and none of the new information merits revisiting the matter. That said, a single sentence mention in the Inquirer article would by itself be objectionable. JoshuaZ 03:02, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn deletion Enough sources establish notability (front page of newspaper, even). Even if source of notability was dubious (which wasn't in this case), the fact the subject became notable is what matters. Notability is not subjective. --Oakshade 07:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Where did you hear that she was featured in the front page of a newspaper? Dionyseus 07:40, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Photo is featured on front page of Irish Examiner with story about it. [75] --Oakshade 08:17, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    That can't be accepted, the small photo at the top left of the paper, even if it were real, would be trivial. The Inquirer article on that photo can't be accepted as an independent source because the Everywhere Girl is their creation. Dionyseus 08:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    It doesn't matter. Whether we like it or not, the Inquirer is a reliable source. Just becuase they created Everywhere Girl, they are still not Everywhere Girl. Jennifer Chandra or the Inquirer did not put the on the cover of the Irish Examiner - The Irish Examiner did. Besides, ANY photo on the newpaper cover and above the fold (on the very top, no less) of a major newspaper is very significant.--Oakshade 17:06, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree with Dionyseus in that the source mentioned is not notable in that it is simply use of stock photography.Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. 10:01, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Overturn deletion The original deletion seems to be purely the result of a few bitter Wikipedians hatred of The Inquirer and most of the delete votes show the author to have (wrongly) directly associated Everywhere girl with The Inquirer. Suoerh2 07:39, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn - Addendum to earlier request There are obviously a great number of people tracking this particular set of stock photography and not nescessarily tracking Jennifer Chandra (JC) herself. Her identity is almost irrelivant to the article in that this particular set of stock photography has been used numerous times by many corporations and intitutions in thier online and print media and as such is being tracked by multiple, independent individuals. It is not with the agenda of promoting the images or JC that is of prime interest and JC herself seems less interested in TEG title than some admins here. --ConallBQuidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. 10:04, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn deleteion. Does anyone actually need anymore information that Dionyseus is on a personal vendetta than this:- "the small photo at the top left of the paper, even if it were real, would be trivial....... Dionyseus 08:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC)". So now he is claiming that the photo was faked, based on no evidence whatsoever other than his own imagination. How can someone be allowed to be an editor on Wikipedia with such clearly warped views and bias? Wikipedia is doing itself some serious self inflicted damage by letting this go on & on and I for one no longer trust it as a reliable source. The article should be reinstated, locked and Dionyseus should be banned from editing. - Jonathan 87.127.29.243 (talkcontribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
    While I agree very strongly with you - please avoid personal attacks. DLX 14:00, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Permanent Restoration and Trap Well, since that admin was an a** and was clearly wrong in deleting it, I say we make it moddable, protected from a deletion, and a trap for 7 day bans for all admins who try to delete it since it be considered a hate crime. GG~ -ScythedBlade


  • SOURCES - a list of sources for all those who have requested them

The Inquirer (obviously) 50 or more stories here

The Stock Asylum - This publication is accepted as a news source by Google News. They use the term 'Everywhere Girl' in their story. They do not mention the Inquirer.

The Stock Artists Alliance, a global trade organization of stock photographers, reported on the phenomenon. Notably they did not use the term 'Everywhere Girl' and they did not refer to the Inquirer (you can perhaps imagine how unsuitable internet search tech is for finding stuff like this). The organization sent letters to Dell, Gateway, etc. warning them that they had used the same stock photos. [76] (linked pdf documents may require internet explorer)

Urban Dictionary

The San Antonio Express-News here, requires a subscription to access the archives.

Engadget Story referring to Dell/Gateway Girl. It does not mention the Inquirer or the "Everywhere Girl" - The Inquirer was not the source for this story (although it was the source for an earlier Engadget story). In fact, the website discovered by Engadget, applyesl.com cannot even be found on the Inquirer site. Engadget is accepted as a news source by Google News.

As well all these sources, a simple Google search for phrases like "Everywhere Girl", "dell girl", "getty girl", and so on will find many, many other references. But it seems from the preceeding discussion that many of these websites, such as Ecademy or GigaOM, are defined by Wikipedians as 'blogs' or 'forums' - even though they contain original, verifiable research - and therefore they are regarded as totally irrelevant to this debate... and on that note, I hope you'll forgive me for adding that whatever the outcome of this sorry little debate, this is the last hour of my life I'll ever waste fixing Wikipedia's admin problems. Goodbye. -g 218.102.23.91 04:51, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Additional sources - sorry if these are already covered, or seem irrelevant by some. Yes, many are blogs, but some are professional photo oriented websites, and a researcher. So, whatever.. References in support of inclusion:

http://www.rbloch.net/index.php/weblog/more/everywhere_you_look/ http://www.brianbehrend.com/archives/2004/09/more_stock_foot.php http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=57857 http://www.joeycoleman.ca/archives/2005/04/16/u_of_m_dell_everywhere_girl.html http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Christian_Fundamentalists_upset_the_Everywhere_Girl http://www.visualeditors.com/forum/archive/the-story-of-everywhere-girl-5078.htm http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/index.php/2005/stupid-stock-photography/ http://ligsy.stumbleupon.com/tag/the-everywhere-girl/ http://www.netsoc.ucd.ie/~rory/gallery/ http://brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/e/ev/everywhere_girl.html http://www.luckypix.com/blogger/2006/05/stock-photo-girls.html http://commercial-archive.com/112042.php http://researcher.se/archives/2004/08/igen/ http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/11/wsj-on-companies-use-of-nonexclusive.html

While the below WSJ article doesn't mention The Everywhere Girl as a specific example, it does highlight the stock photo overuse trend, for which TEG is the best tracked example. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116467838729434053-M7qaK32f_P0exg6tqL_QMsu6caM_20071128.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top --Wiremold 06:53, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Regarding the Source list above The problem with these third party sources is that they most of them do not meet WP:RS or are not non-trivial in nature. Lets take a look at them:
The Stock Asylum What you have here is a brief mention in an article. Trivial in nature.
The Inquirer], while The Inquirer is a reliable source and most of the articles are non-trivial in nature, they are the source that basically named and manufactured this story. For the purposes here I think the Inquirer needs to be viewed as 1 non-trivial source regardless of how many stories they have about this.
Urban Dictionary Not even close to a reliable source.
here The San Antonio Express-News] I can't see the whole story, but I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and call it a non-trivial source.
Engadget Brief blurb... never mentions "Everywhere Girl" by name. To me this is pretty trivial coverage.
Wiremold's list. Going through these it is a series of blogs, a Wikpedia mirror, and a Digg with a whopping 4 Diggs. There isn't one reliable source in there.
At this point there still isn't adequate evidence to support the theory that this is a widely known meme, which is really the only way this should be restored. There are exactly 2 reliable sources. Where is any evidence that this has become pervasive in any way ala Leeroy Jenkins (who I'd never heard of before this DRV, but in reading the article it is pretty clear how LJ constitutes a pervasive meme)? Mentioning "Everywhere Girl" at Stock Photography or The Inquirer with a link to one (or both) of the reliable sources that have been provided would be fine, but at this point there is simply no evidence to support a standalone article on the idea that she as an individual is notable or that her "Everywhere Girl" persona constitutes a meme.--Isotope23 19:29, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I would say the fact that most of the Keep !voters ran along the WP:ILIKEIT or "seems notable to me" line of reasoning I would say that is a pretty good reason to discount many of them in the original AfD.--Isotope23 23:33, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The above is an archived debate of the deletion review of the article above. Please do not modify it.
Smoothbeats – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 00:28, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The following is an archived debate of the deletion review of the article above. Please do not modify it.
Smoothbeats (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|AfD)

Article contains notable content, hastily deleted before content added Hafree 17:23, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am writing to appeal the protected deletion of the article Smoothbeats.

Smoothbeats.com is a non-profit internet radio station dedicated to supporting independent artists, running on custom-written open source software which runs many large popular internet radio stations.

  • The article was initially created as a stub outline about a week ago, but was marked for speedy deletion less than an hour later, before any content could be filled in.
  • Content was soon added and the speedy deletion tag was removed, only to result in a repremand for removing the tag.
  • The speedy deletion tag was added back in and contested, only to have the article deleted for lack of notable content.
  • The article was recreated with more notable content, discussion of key technoogies used, meta-links to numerous related articles, and contributions to open source development, only to have the article deleted once again for lack of citations to backup any claims.

I'm curious as to which claims were made that need to be backed up by citations... I suppose that the claim of being an internet radio station could be backed up by citing hundreds of messageboard posts and blog entries that mention Smoothbeats, but simply clicking on the external link to the radio station and tuning in should suffice to prove its existance. Nobody has written any articles on our free open source broadcasting solution (except us), but that lack of documentation doesn't refute the claim that we developed it.

Most importantly, I'm confused as to how this article on an internet radio station is any less notable than these other 168 articles in the Internet radio category, almost none of which provide any significant content other than a blurb on who they are and a link to their web site.

Hafree 17:23, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Unfortunately, not all publications are available online, and those that are aren't necessarily available for free. I'm pretty sure posting scans or PDF versions of such articles without permission would be unlawful. That being said, here are a few more features and/or mentions of Smoothbeats in some well-known reputable publications, and I'll keep looking to see what else I can find available for free online. Hafree 04:51, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

*Comment. Since I was the deleting admin, I have no idea if I can vote or not. But I would obviously vote for delete. --WoohookittyWoohoo! 05:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

January 2007 (UTC).

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Tubcat – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 07:33, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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This article was AfD'd, no consensus. AfD'd again, and deleted because lack of proof of notability. It turns out that the Washington Times devoted an article to Tubcat and a "Russian challenger" on March 6, 2003. http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=tubcat&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Thus, one can assume other legitimate references to it exist, making this article verifiable and more notable. -- Zanimum 20:10, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Rusty tromboneKeep closure endorsed – trialsanderrors 07:33, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Article was kept after its second AfD proposal. Was kept for "I Like It" reasons. Reasons for deletion are: 1) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rusty_trombone_%282nd_nomination%29. 2) Precedent set by Keep is very bad. Prairie Muffins (preserved here) was exceedingly better cited but deleted. CyberAnth 02:31, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I can go with that. The article's editors should please take heed. Multiple good sources are the solution. CyberAnth 10:26, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Why, what will have changed 'in a while'? Will the article be better sourced, or are we just hoping for a different closing admin at the end of the five days? --Sam Blanning(talk) 12:05, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
We're hoping that if it truly should be deleted, more than one person will say so. -Amark moo! 15:56, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
What will have changed "in a while" is that people won't !vote "keep, we only just kept this" and might instead focus on the article itself. I'd have !"voted "delete" as I habitually do for previosly AfDd articles which still have no sources second time round, and for which I can't be arsed to find sources myself. Guy (Help!) 16:34, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and delete. Nominator explicitly asked for reliable sources in the nomination, none currently in the article, none of the keep proponents provided any and consequently all of their !votes are a waste of server space. Unambiguously should have been closed as delete without prejudice against recreation with reliable sources. --Sam Blanning(talk) 12:03, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I dunno. This is pretty much an exact copy of the Cleveland steamer debate: an essentially dicdef sex-act article that gets kept on the basis of "pop culture references" and claims that "WP is not censored, so we can't delete this". Those debates never go anywhere, and I don't see this going anywhere either. This article is far worse in the sourcing department, though. WarpstarRider 12:47, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • It's fixable, in any regard. The problem is more that people falsely believe that terms like this are neologisms (which they aren't), and our reliable sourcing guideline isn't helpful when it comes to terminology that simply isn't appropriate for mainstream "reliable sources." No one seems to want to break down WP:RS, though, so... --badlydrawnjeff talk 16:03, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn per Sam Blanning. Come on... find some sources. WP:V is not optional. --W.marsh 16:55, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Annoyed endorse but probably should be relisted ASAP. Since it was basically unanimous, there's really no other way the admin could possibly have closed it, so no process problems here. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 17:22, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Why not? DRV is pretty good at endorsing closures made according to policy rather than vote count. --Sam Blanning(talk) 20:35, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure. Unanimous keep. Issues with reliable sources are trivial, as sources do obviously exist. Go look for them. You'll find them if you want to find them. Consensus among most editors is that sources do exist for this, just everyone is too lazy to look. The same can be said for tens of thousands of other articles which are unsourced but would get through Afd without problems. --- RockMFR 21:19, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • If sources exist, why haven't they (apparently) been mentioned in the article, the afd or the DRV? Watch who you call lazy... WP:V puts the burden of proof on the people who want to keep content. Alas we've voted to ignore that. --W.marsh 22:31, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • They've been mentioned here. I haven't added them yet more because I haven't exactly been in a position to do so. --badlydrawnjeff talk 23:47, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • Claiming "multiple references in an Amazon search" is different than citing them in the article... at any rate, looking at the Amazon results, it's mostly T-shirts. The book references (that aren't speaking purely about Jazz musicians) seem like passing mentions in fiction that do not even define the term, much less give useful information on it. I don't want to debate WP:RS here, the fact is that I'm just not seeing the reliable information to write an article on this topic... and vague claims that it exists aren't helping. I'm not even understanding what information we would use to write an article here... South Park Episodes? Stuff our buddies told us over beers back in college? Just not what I think of as reliable stuff, in the context of making factual claims about the history and usage of a term. --W.marsh 00:32, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - Why did the process of this AfD fail? One of the largest misconceptions among Wikipedians is that consensus trumps policies. It does not. Per WP:CONSENSUS#Consensus vs. other policies, "It is assumed that editors working toward consensus are pursuing a consensus that is consistent with Wikipedia's basic policies and principles". Thus, whenever a consensus is reached that is inconsistent with Wikipedia's basic policies and principles, the consensus is simply illegitimate. A consensus to "Keep" an article that fails Wikipedia's basic policies and principles is thus illegitimate. CyberAnth 02:39, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • It is most certainly illegitimate, but that doesn't produce a delete consensus either. And articles need a consensus to delete to actually be deleted. -Amark moo! 05:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Eh not really. I've closed "unanimous keeps" as deletes without controversy, the cases the jump to mind are ones where the article was a copyvio no one had noticed, clearly we can't just vote to violate copyright. But there are some less obvious cases. The point is that consensus isn't a suicide pact... CyberAnth is right that the consensus produced by an AfD is illegitimate if it calls for doing something obviously against our policies or even copyright law. But going against consensus in closing an AfD is certainly something that needs to be done very carefully and sparingly. --W.marsh 06:17, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • Well, yes, if there is a copyvio, it should be deleted anyway, but that's a speedy criterion. I don't think that you should close near-unanimous keep AfDs as delete in any other case, though, because it's highly unlikely someone didn't consider the policies and think they were met. -Amark moo! 06:04, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and delete - the AFD got this one wrong - the one and only source is the Urban Dictionary ... that's not exactly reliable. Consensus cannot override policy. --BigDT 06:38, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure pretty much per Starblind. Although I agree the provided source's reliability is dubious, a quick check with Google will immediately confirm that the term is in use. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure. Either way this would have come to DRV, right? Silensor 12:59, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Closure per Alkivar. I've also added some references that verify it is a sex act. VegaDark 21:06, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure per the commenters above. Yamaguchi先生 23:18, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • endorse closure and keep. The discussion was almost unanimous. There is also the media use, supported by an increasing number of references. Opposition may perhaps be influenced by an NPOV attitude to non-orthodox human sexuality articles. Is there any way to keep it from being proposed it again and again until there eventually comes by chance a time when people aren't alert? DGG 02:43, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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IS group – Request withdrawn – 01:16, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
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OVERTURN Noticket 19:59, 21 January 2007 (UTC) Re: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/IS_group (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/IS_group). I am a new newbie, interested in cognitive science. I ran across this one and was fascinated. As a newbie, I did not enter into the deletion discussion. If I had, here is what I would have said. Keep. Notability is clear. Reliable sources are adequate, but thin. The discussion was cool. I found it to be more fun and interesting than many other Wikipedia entries that I read. As a newbie, I was troubled that no one mentioned Please do not bite the newcomers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers) and Be bold (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold_in_updating_pages). The latter refers to updating pages, but as a newbie I would also encourage support for newbies being bold about adding quality information. This particular entry is of considerable interest (at least to those in cognitive science), reasonably sourced, definitely notable, and another newbie's first attempt at adding content to Wikipedia. Don't bite the newcomers. | Noticket 19:59, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse deletion per valid AfD, and problems regarding WP:V, WP:RS, andWP:COI. WP:BITE andWP:BOLD are good solid policy, but WP:BITE just means to not to be unduly mean to newbies, it doesn't necessarily mean that things they create won't be deleted. WP:BOLD also offers no deletion protection... indeed, the fact that articles can be deleted is one of the reasons why it's possible to be bold in creating them! To sum up, valid AfD, no reason given to overturn. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 20:42, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, valid AfD. I'm going to go off on a tangent now...
  • AAARGH. STOP CITING WP:BITE IN SUPPORT OF NEWBIE CONTRIBUTIONS NEVER BEING DELETED. That is not even close to what it says. -Amark moo! 21:24, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I'm sorry, perhaps I was misunderstood. I didn't mean to imply that because the item was by a newbie it should not be deleted. What I meant was that after carefully reading the discussion for this item, I felt that some editors were unduly mean to the newbie in their comments and (as a newbie myself) I was concerned enough to propose this deletion review. Also, if there is any possibility for gentle consideration of newbie entries, this should be kept in mind to encourage newbies to participate and keep coming back and keep improving the quality of their work. (From WP:BITE -- — nothing scares potentially valuable contributors away faster than hostility or elitism). For myself, I have almost no experience editing Wikipedia items, but plenty of experience reading them. I have looked into this item a little bit and have some experience with some of the information referred to in the item. There are at least (what I would consider to be) 2 reliable sources to provide verifiability (some would argue with this, and have). There is significant notability and importance for at least a portion of the information. Other information in the item could use editing and, perhaps, removal. There are COI issues, but considering the newbie status, and the value of the information presented, they do not seem compelling enough to require deletion. Looking at the background of the originator of the entry, it would seem that Wikipedia would embrace individuals with such expertise. I do not deny that these issues are arguable or problematic, but not enough to convince me that this item should be deleted. On balance I think that this one is a keeper and deletion should be overturned. Please note that I don't feel this way about all Wikipedia articles, and have proposed deleting some. | Noticket 21:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • The problem is that people being unduly mean does not mean they are wrong, so it's insufficient grounds for a deletion review. And while I respect your opinion, the fact is, the AfD shows that consensus goes against your opinion. -Amark moo! 01:07, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • I agree with you -- being mean does not mean that those who provided comments are wrong. I am not disagreeing with the opinions or expertise of those who have weighed in on this issue. I am suggesting that greater civility should be encouraged. For example, if your AAARGH comment, above, was directed at my earlier comment, I do not see the necessity in your responding that way. It smacks of elitism. I already admitted to being a newbie prior to that, and thus am unfamiliar with your concerns with this issue, should you have any. Further, as a newbie, my concern about this particular entry is that the attitudes of some of the editors of the original entry, particularly their apparent elitism and arrogance (see, as just one example, the final addition on brevity, which appears to suppress the need for further discussion and communication), appear to my mind to indicate that they may have their own issues that prevented them from giving this particular entry sufficient consideration. I certainly am not saying that I am right and they are wrong. I am suggesting that perhaps the consensus has gone the way it has is because the issues here are complex and need to be looked at more carefully than they have been up to this point. There are clearly concerns about the entry. All of the concerns that have been raised appear to me to be legitimate. At the same time, this particular entry appears to be more on the edge than any I have previously looked at, and its creation was possibly hampered by its being the first entry of a newbie who was arguably unaware of appopriate policies and procedures. Still, on balance, my preference would be to not throw away the baby with the bathwater. I feel that this particularly entry has enough going for it that it should not be deleted, but should be reinstated, be edited, and then improved by community input. Finally, as stated before, the entire process would be improved if experienced editors tried as hard as possible to not be snide or curt when dealing with newbies (or anyone else for that matter). You are not going to improve the quality of Wikipedia if you chase away those who are trying, in their own stumbling ways, to make valuable contributions. | Noticket 01:54, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. Please note that I am the original creator of the IS group entry and have an (unintentional) COI with the entry. Sorry about that. Thus, I will not be working on this one again. Couldn't agree more about the civility comments. It certainly has made me question my interest in the Wikipedia enterprise. At an editor's suggestion, some content will be moved elsewhere. Ddp224 02:13, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse, sorry, the more well-reasoned comments on AfD were right: we would need non-trivial external sources. Please don';t be too disillusioned, what you have discovered is that Wikipedia is populated by humans, with all that entails. Sometimes it's great, other times it sucks badly. I suspect that your being here would improve the great-to-suck ratio, which is all any of us can do. Guy (Help!) 10:42, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Guy, thanks for the kind words -- they are greatly appreciated. I also thank all of those who provided comments -- I have learned a lot from them. The problems with the IS group entry were entirely my fault. Because this was my first entry, I was misled by my previous experience using Wikipedia as an encyclopedia and information resource. At the time I was also completely unfamiliar with the rules. Based on my experience and familiarity with Wikipedia entries up to that point, I had (mistakenly) thought that Wikipedia was a more "open" resource than its rules, unfortunately, allow it to be and thought that notability, verifiability, etc., could be established in other ways than Wikipedia presently considers to be appropriate. Because of the non-controversial and potentially useful content, I also did not understand, at that time, that COI or original research would be a problem. It was pretty clear to me then that many entries (if not most) are started and edited by individuals that Wikipedia would presently consider to be too close to the item -- I continue to believe that this can be a useful way to get entries started and to get individuals involved in the process. Also, I mistakenly assumed that these matters, if problematic, would be handled by the market forces and the ability of those reading the entry to change it and edit it in ways they saw fit. At that point in time, that is what my naive view of what Wikipedia was -- my understanding has since changed. My intent was to add value to Wikipedia by adding what I felt was an entry of unusual scientific interest and importance. As suggested by a Wikipedia editor, the IS group entry has been moved to Wikinfo, where it arguably more appropriately belongs, given Wikipedia's current policies. I am not disillusioned by my Wikipedia experience, though I will admit that my IS group experience has been a lot more fun and informative than has been my Wikipedia experience. I expect that I will continue to add to Wikipedia in appropriate instances and, hopefully, in appropriate ways. I was a little taken aback, however, by the needless rudeness of certain editors and their apparent lack of knowledge, which, in my mind, diminishes the quality of the enterprise. I hope that policies like verifiability and original research become more open in the future in Wikipedia, providing greater flexibility, and providing opportunities or exceptions for contributions where notability of the contributors and/or topic can be established in other ways. The quality and value of the information should be primary, not just the rules. In one of my former lives I used to be a regulator and very much understand the pitfalls of being driven or obsessed by the rules and regulations while ignoring common sense -- the unintended consequences can sometimes be enormous. Rules often have exceptions and frequently change. Again, thank you for your very kind words and for taking the time to look at the history of this particular entry and its demise. Ddp224 17:22, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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2 Much Booty (In Da Pants) – Deletion overturned, relisting optional – trialsanderrors 00:46, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Closed as delete. Delete votes were not properly weighed - besides "kick it in the pants," many cited a historical guideline proposal, the rest claimed "no notability" although keep suggestions indicated the obvious "notability" of a charting single. Deletion must be overturned badlydrawnjeff talk 15:26, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse deletion valid AfD. Do you have any evidence to back up your accusation that "delete votes were not properly weighed"? While I'm not sure I would have voted to delete this myself, I don't see anything wrong with the debate or its closing. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:47, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Well, the obvious evidence is that when people say "not notable," and then people show various information that confers "notability," that proper weight wasn't given. I did ask the closing admin, and his/her response was that s/he "felt that the Delete votes were more convincing, and they were more numerous, suggesting vote counting and that s/he feels that a blanket "non-notable" is "more convincing" that verifiable facts about chart positions and true "notability." --badlydrawnjeff talk 15:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Just as WP:NSONGS isn't a current guideline (though very few people cited it anyway), there's no actual guideline that says "achieving any chart position on any national chart confers notability." I would also note that at least one keep comment cited WP:MUSIC, which doesn't cover this at all. That it is obvious to you is nice, but apparently it wasn't obvious to everyone in the discussion. I'm therefore unsure how this is out of process when the only policy/guideline it seems to be violating is WP:ALLCHARTINGSINGLESARENOTABLE. GassyGuy 19:11, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Jeff, your reasoning seems to be based on an assumption that any charting song is explicitly guaranteed an article. Not so. WP:MUSIC is pretty clear that charting shows notability in artist articles, but whether the individual songs themselves get their own articles isn't spelled out in any policy or guideline that I know of. Hence the AfD debate. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 20:49, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • ...thus my point. Unless the debate works around "not notable" without any evidence being greater than "this is why it's notable," there's abolutely no way anyone could say that the delete suggestions could be "more convincing." They had no argument. --badlydrawnjeff talk 21:12, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • Again, "this is why it's notable" is based on personal opinion that charting = notability. "Not notable" is the opinion that that's not true. The burden of proof is never on the folks saying it should be deleted to prove that it isn't notable, but rather for irrefutable evidence to be presented that it is. The basic arguments are between, "It charted, therefore it is notable" (which is a personal opinion, not a policy) and "Its chart position is not enough to establish notability" (which is also not a policy). Nobody in the discussion had any real Wikipedia grounding. GassyGuy 21:50, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
            • No one's saying that anyone had any real policy or guideline on their side, though. But when there's no guiding document, and one side says "this is X because of Y and Z," and the other says "No, it's not," which side is stronger? --badlydrawnjeff talk 21:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
              • Neither one by my reckoning. GassyGuy 21:55, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
                • Interesting analysis. I don't get it. --badlydrawnjeff talk 21:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
                  • I will try to explain, but I honestly don't think it's worthwhile. "X is notable because of Y" is an opinion. There is nothing that actually validates this premise. Therefore, it cannot be assigned a value of true. The argument there is "I believe X is notable because of Y." "Y does not establish X's notability" is also an opinion. There is no way to actually prove Y is an insufficient criterion to establish notability. When there's no policy which officially affirms that Y is sufficient, nor a policy which actually establishes than more than Y is necessary to establish notability, neither side actually has a very strong case. GassyGuy 22:02, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
                    • Like I said, I don't get it. i guess we disagree, but I don't think WP:IDONTTHINKSO should ever trump actual efforts to demonstrate "notability" in the absence of a guiding principle. One of the many reasons why "notability" has to get junked sometime sooner rather than later. --badlydrawnjeff talk 22:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • We need something to prevent people from making articles on random things based on government records of existence, though. -Amark moo! 22:42, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn. The keep opinions were far stronger than the delete opinions. The first five opinions seem to be completely invalid- two were based on some fantasy policy that songs are only notable if there is a corresponding article for the artist/album. One !vote ("boot it in da pants") gave no reason at all. Weirdoactor's comment suggests both deleting and merging (impossible action due to GFDL), and gives no reason for either action. Uioh's comment seems to suggest deleting solely because the article was too short- that's not a valid reason for deletion. A decent discussion actually begins at badlydrawnjeff's comments. There seems to be no consensus whether the subject's claim to notability is good enough, so the only conclusion to the Afd would have been "no consensus". --- RockMFR 21:04, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn. It was shown why it was notable, and in response, the delete arguments were that it... fails a proposal which never managed consensus, that it doesn't fail anyway? -Amark moo! 21:25, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Again, very few people actually cited WP:NSONGS (and yes, it would have failed that). The discussion was based on whether simply charting on any chart is enough to be notable. There's no policy which says one way or the other. I really don't care if this is overturned, but that notability was somehow "established" simply isn't true. GassyGuy 21:44, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Hercules Cycle and Motor Company – Withdrawn – 00:18, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
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Article deleted as alleged copyright violation, however content this cited was not duplicated from the external webpage - facts were taken from there, and other content based upon that site but rewritten 'in my own words' (as per WP copyright policy), and this was also combined with content from two other sources.

The admin who deleted the page, Centrx did not place a proper notice (such as {{nothanks-sd}}) on my talk page to notify me - or even let me know which page it was that the problem was with, just left a non-specific accusatory message.

Rather than specifying any particular sections of the article with which Centrx had a problem he (or she) just deleted the entire article.

Article appears to have been speedily deleted - it doesn't appear to have been listed on the Copyright Problems page (WP:CP) prior to deletion or had an RFD.

Note that the page the information was sourced from, http://www.madeinbirmingham.org/hercules.htm, has been altered recently. The older version is (at the time of writing) available in the Google cache.

Mauls 10:46, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, nearly every paragraph if not every paragraph is copied verbatim from that website, in both the new and older version of the website. You should also review your other contributions to make sure they are not copied as well. You cannot undelete a copyright infringement. (Note: see also OTRS complaint). —Centrxtalk • 15:00, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well, my recollection of the work I did is obviously at odds with the above - and I'm at the disadvantage that I can't see the article anymore to compare. Given that, I've recreated the article from the notes I used last time. I still remain critical of Centrx's approach though - not helpful and not constructive. Mauls 00:15, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


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Jeffrey Mishlove – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 00:50, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The admin Jaranda abruptly closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeffrey Mishlove, and deleted the article, citing WP:IAR as his(?) primary justification. The majority of those who voted in the brief RFD period before Jaranda closed it voted to "keep" the article. The article was in the midst of active discussion and revision by good faith editors (admittedly, it had some problems with unsourced material). However, it is clear that Mishlove is a well-established figure in the world of parapsychology. A large number of verifiable books and articles by Mishlove were documented, he is the host of a national television program, there is evidence that he holds a unique PhD in Parapsychology from UC Berkeley and his been the subject of magazine articles, there are 36,000 "google" hits for the guy. I request that the article be restored. BTfromLA 08:01, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse deletion, no reliable sources in the article nor presented by AfD, thus keep proponents failed to show notability. Slap Jaranda with a trout for citing WP:IAR, because he didn't ignore any rules. I don't know what you mean by "abruptly closed", because the AfD ran for the full period. Little reason to overturn the AfD given - "Evidence... that he has been the subject of magazine articles"? Cite them, then. --Sam Blanning(talk) 10:09, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Response Re: the "abrupt" closure--in the few occasions that I've gotten involved in AfD discussions, they went on for a couple of weeks if there was a continuing discussion without clear consensus. If the policy has changed, and the idea now is that the door slams shut at the stroke of five days no matter what, then that's my error--I was not aware of that change in procedure. But I don't really see what the point of the AfD is if the admin is going to come along and unilaterally decide the fate of the article. Clearly, the only possible interpretations of the consensus of that vote were "keep" or "undecided." If admins are going to disregard the "keep" votes, as Jaranda did, why invite non-admins into the process at all? Re: reliable sources about Mishlove: I don't have time to ferret out much detail (this was not my article--I don't have a particular interest in the guy), but a cursory internet search reveals a review of his book "The PK man" by Stephen E. Braude in The Journal of Parapsychology, June, 2001; a June, 1998 review in the same journal by Larry Dossey which lists Mishlove among the "most prominent persons in parapsychology"; He appears as a subject on the "Coast to Coast AM" website, and apparently has been the focus of at least one episode of that radio program (one of the more widely syndicated radio shows in the US and Canada); the deleted article stated that Psychology Today ran a piece on him and his unique degree in October, 1980 (I don't have the ability to confirm that from my home computer); and despite one user's arguments to the contrary, I'm not convinced that Mishlove's claim to be the only person ever to recieve a PhD in parapsychology from an accredited US university should be rejected. A copy of the document, the list of his dissertation committee members, and a description of the program which permitted him to create this unique degree program are online. The guy has authored or co-authored several easily verifiable books, some published by major presses, including Ballantine, while addressing a "fringe" specialty. There aren't many professional, academically trained parapsychologists in the world, even fewer with TV interview shows. I think he surpasses the notability level of many of the subjects awarded an entry in Wikipedia. But my main concern is with the administrative swooping down and undermining the process of discussion and revision. BTfromLA 11:56, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • My fault for the WP:IAR, i was closing them at 2 AM, but the article had no reliable sources and the keep voters didn't try to add them to the article so Endorse Deletion for now as closer, instead I saw the votes were like a I heard of him so keep votes, again the article can be recreated with reliable sources. Also I closed the afd within the time allowed Jaranda wat's sup 19:17, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. Assertions that there are sources are unconvincing. You must provide the sources. -Amark moo! 21:26, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think the same results would occur again but have no objection to re-discussion. I voted delete in good part on the basis that--more than just no RS--, there was evidence of error at the least as i found objective evidence from the standard list of phd degrees that there were about 40 more of them in his field, which is not a trivial mistake by a guy claiming to be the only one. He claims to have run a major interview series, but strangely enough nobody else has ever mentioned it. If that sort of evidence doesn't count, then we have the evidence on the other side that one of the editors has frequently seen his name on a signboard in front of his research institute/university. DGG 03:19, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Beating a dead horse: DGG, I appreciate your willingness to re-open the discussion, and am frankly baffled by the attitude of the group of admins who've weighed in here. Apropos your argument, did you look at that copy of Mishlove's PhD? He is clearly claiming a PhD for research IN Parapsychology, not about it or mentioning it. So, either he indeed has this unique credential, or he has been perpetrating an outright fraud for years--it's not a matter of exaggeration or prevarication, the online degree states on its face that it is in Parapsychology, and he puts it that way in his bio (and a list of his dissertation committee is supplied below the scan of the certificate, along with a description of the interdisiplinary PhD program that permitted him to structure such a degree). BTfromLA 19:27, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Based on the abstracts, there were clearly other programs that permitted people to arrange the structure of the committee and to fit dissertations in this field. There is no use of the word which does not establish him as either careless or lying. Now, neither of these are reasons to keep anyone out of WP, but it does cast some doubt about other matters relying to any extent on his word , and the details will have to be rexamined for RS. DGG 02:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion without prejudice to recreate if reliable sources can be found (and I suspect they can). Actually, I'd like to see the history to be sure, but it sounds like the article was fairly dubious, and the deletion was (at least barely) within policy. But I've definitely heard of the guy, so I'm pretty sure that there are sources out there, somewhere, and I suspect he's probably notable enough to meet WP:BIO. But even so, if I assume good faith on all sides, I have to assume that a re-creation from scratch (from sources) would be better than an undeletion. Xtifr tälk 21:07, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Nihilist anarchism – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 00:54, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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This deletion review is about the term "nihilist anarchism" which is claimed to be a "neologism" by user Tothebarricades. I dispute this with sourcing and notes. Others claim this is in "essay" form, which is incorrect. It is an expression of the notes that I placed during the deletion. I understand that cleanup was necessary for the article, but I also feel that attempts to achieve cleanup were not taken seriously at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nihilist anarchism and no attempt was made to engage my points while I was attempting a clean up, a summary of this can be found at Talk: Nihilist anarchism and is detailed below:

  • According to the rules on deletion, users are to Be bold in updating pages

"The Wikipedia community encourages users to be bold in updating articles. Wikis develop faster when people fix problems, correct grammar, add facts, make sure the wording is accurate, and so on. We expect everyone to be bold; it's all right. How many times have you read something and thought, "Why aren't these pages copy-edited?" Wikipedia not only allows you to add, revise, and edit the article — it wants you to do it. It does require some amount of politeness, but it works. You'll see.

Also, of course, others here will edit what you write. Don't take it personally. They, like all of us, just want to make Wikipedia as good as it can possibly be. Bring out all information that you can."

This is also asked of administrators and was not attempted. The "discussion" on deletion failed to bring up any direct points that were questionable. Original content was claimed to be the problem, but nothing was cited, so the entry could not be fixed to avoid deletion. No suggestions were made. Based on the rules for consensus, all are to agree, though administration determines "consensus", this did not occur. If specific points were brought up they could've been answered, like most entries, cleanup would've been possible. Information was verified with sources, original content was dismissed by notes and there was a neutral point of view that did not present bias, touching all the key points for deletion, removing a basis for it. Rough consensus was also not achieved. Dominance in discussion was not weighed properly, attempts to clean up were made during the deletion process and no conversation challenged my attempts to clean-up. According to the rules of Rough consensus Administrators are to determine dominance. However that dominance has some guidelines which were ignored ""dominance" is not to be determined on the basis of volume or persistence, but rather a more general sense of agreement). Consensus can be determined by a show of hands, humming, or any other means on which the WG agrees (by rough consensus, of course)." A general sense of agreement cannot be determined when there was no attempt to engage any of my points. "*Delete" over and over is "persistance" without substance. I offered a quality response to these calls, but there wasn't even an attempt to dismiss my points. I am logging administrative abuse because of this.Brokendoor 00:28, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

I am requesting an undeletion and I am willing to be bold in cleaning up this entry. I can note the "neologism", I can change the name to "nihilist anarchy", I can shorten the entry by linking to the appropriate histories of the Russian Nihilist movement, the Narodnik and the International Workingmen's Association, adding the appropriate history to the congresses from the "influences in anarchy" section of nihilist anarchism. I can also link to Friedrich Nietzsche, Last Man, Übermensch, The will to power and use notes from an external "nihilist anarchy" site resource to express this. I can expand from the previous entry into the influences from Situationist, Post-left anarchy and Green anarchism. I can write up a critique of civilization using a variety of sources connected with the previous mentioned entries, which also plays a part in developing this tendency. Also, I can count in the influences from Postmodernism and other theories that fall around Existentialism and Nihilism. However here I would detail differences between the theories as well as similiarities.

Basically, this disserves review at the least, reinstatement if possible and I am willing to work with administrators with this because I am proposing an entry in a practicing form of anarchy that draws influences from a variety of sources, which have been implied as similiar, but have only formented as both an influence (like most anarchist theories in the U.S.) and a specific tendency several years ago. The announcement that this tendency was real and defined occurred in "Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st Century" by Aragorn! an editor of Anarchy magazine and contributor to Green Anarchy magazine. John Zerzan and other editors of "Green Anarchy" also play a part in its developing growth and some (not John Zerzan) have identified as nihilists in this magazine and other journals. There have also been several articles written that are posted online that pretain directly to nihilist anarchy that aren't found at pistolsdrawn.org, such as High Priest Wombat's "Nihilism and Women" and Felonious Skunk's Contributing to Momentum Against Civilization. This is an attempt to expose this development.

Journals like Green Anarchy and Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed discuss this tendency at length and they are the first and second largest anarchist magazine distributed in the United States. I also feel that WikiProject Deletion or Deletionism caused a rush on the process which was unnecessary. This intentional project can be hostile to developing entries and it make me uncomfortable as a learning wiki-editor and I'll go on record saying that. Please consider my points and my attempt to create this entry. I would like to engage administration so that this can be made possible, either through reinstating the entry or giving details on some of the points I made above. Brokendoor 03:21, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse deletion. The article would have needed a complete rewrite to be even decent, so ignoring questions of notability, it should have been deleted. The AfD was valid, anyway, and I don't see anything which was not present there. -Amark moo! 03:26, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Just wanted to point out "for the record", that of the 10 users recommending delete (including the nominator), only 2 (not including the nominator) are members of WikiProject Deletion. One of them made a very brief comment "OR, violates NPOV", and the other made a lightly sarcastic but reasonable comment: ""Presently, nihilist anarchy is more a collection of scattered individuals than a tendency". Well, thanks for telling us. We can't very well have articles about scattered individuals, can we? I might as well start one about my family, at least we aren't scattered. Purest original research.". I don't see how these comments "caused a rush on the process" or caused a hostile or uncomfortable environment, especially as they basically echoing what the other 8 delete commentators were saying Bwithh 03:40, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment To User Amark: Could you give reason for its rewrite? I challenged "original content" without any engagement on if my "notes" on a re-write were acceptable and why or why not they were. I did not recieve any imput, if it can't be reinstated, I'd like to know how I can improve this entry without it being nominated for deletion. I am a writer and I'm willing to source relevant information, if this was the reason. If I needed more direct quotations on its development, I can do that. Though I'm pretty certain I can't get imput on how I can necessarily improve this entry I'd like to know what I should of avoided with the previous entry so it won't be repeated and my attempts won't problem the wikipedia administration. To User Bwithh: I won't press on this subject, but I still don't agree with the direction the discussion went without touching on my points. The point of consensus isn't to "vote" but to discuss and discover the area of disagreement and find a way to overcome it, this was not attempted. This is implied in the "talk" section and the "discussion" section terms. It was a one-sided deletion. Cleanup should've been allowed a chance and direct points should've been made about where clean up was necessary.Brokendoor 03:52, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
My point was that it was unnecessary to drag WikiProject Deletion in this discussion, especially as its aims were grossly misrepresented. Bwithh 03:54, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I am noting your point and though I disagree with this project, this is not the place to challenge it, though I am noting a disagreement with this project.Brokendoor 04:00, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redeleter's comment I didn't close the AFD; I did delete as recreated content. Changes made by that point were minimal. I have no opinion on whether this can be recreated in acceptable form, but I strongly believe that that attempt should be made at a user sub-page, such as User:Brokendoor/Sandbox, and that the article should be written from scratch, not copied and pasted from another source. Starting by copying and pasting from another source is a copyright violation and would mean that all subsequent versions would need to be deleted. (This is true even if the other source is under a license like the GFDL, because the original authors need to be credited.) GRBerry 04:15, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I am the source I wrote the entry at "Open Wiki" which is open source and can be reprinted. I do not need permission, but should that become necessary, the editor is an associate of mine and I can do that. Still no attempts have been made to directly address the content and which sections are at fault. If all are at fault, I'd like an explanation. I've already made an extensive challenge to the points brought up without challenge, until this occurs, I cannot reach an understanding on this subject and with continue to reiterate my points.Brokendoor 04:21, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Undelete. Claims of this being a protologism are unfounded. Wiwaxia 04:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion without prejudice against a complete rewrite. Valid AFD, but I agree that a valid article could be written about this term. The article that was deleted was not it. And if you are the source, we have a problem with WP:OR and possibly a COI as well. Moreschi Deletion! 09:55, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Deletion - First, it certainly is a protologism,and probably a created one. It was deleted for having a large amount of OR. Nihilistic anarchy is basically a belief in nothing. The article (which can still be scraped from various sites on the net) failed OR in multiple ways. It didn't have a single cited source, nor any suggestion of where it drew these "facts" it proclaimed from, nor did it explain WHY it tried to interconnect a huge number of completley disparate theories under one roof (and ignored the fact many directly contradict each other). It was an original thought, original research essay and belongs on anarchopedia. The discussion itself basically was a bunch of people saying "Gee, yeah, that's original research". They didn't provide a way to "fix" it because the entire article was made up. A search on nihilist anarchism after removing wikipeida gives us LESS THAN 200 Google hits. Finally, the proper time period was observed, and not a single counterargument based on POLICY was offered. Most of his "sources" offered at the AfD were from some minor website called pistols drawn (with a huge 145 ghits). If you want to recreate the article, find a reputable source that backs up what you are claiming exists, and do not try to connnect the dots between various sources. Blaming WP:SCISSORS for the article being deleted is blatant bad faith. If the project is watching an article a template will appear on that article's talk page. --ElaragirlTalk|Count 10:06, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Disagreement The internet and pop culture isn't what writes political theory and philosophy, so the point on it being a protologism can be noted, but it is not what is suggested. It did have sourcing, it did have notes. I really don't know where you are getting this from. The notes cite why these ideas are combined, sourcing various articles to prove this point, none of which has been challenged. The sourcing was at the bottom and there was no attempt to be bold and add "citation needed" at any point in this process. I was attempting a cleanup and was disrupted by the rush to delete. The AfD comments explain this, why you didn't engage any of my points just shows that this consensus process is fast becoming as much of a farse as the AfD was. Most of the material for "Pistols Drawn" is distributed face-to-face, making it a phenomenon that isn't lived on the internet. Also Elaragirl, I've already made note that I do have bad faith in a bunch of bored administrators that practice zealous deletions when they have no idea what is actually being discussed and they fail to follow the first guideline, which is to attempt an edit or engage the talk section for an edit. If you want to make an argument out of it, then do it somewhere else. This is not the place for it. As far as policy, I challenged POLICY and none responded. Your responses are the closest to a real engagement, but as you can see, it is rather easy for me to deflect everything you say because the deletion was without merit. As I stated and I'll state again, editors and administrators are to "be bold" and use "rough consensus". A 5 day process without discussion is not a valid reason for deletion. This is just following the structure offered by consensus and time was the only thing adhered to (actual consensus was avoided for a majoritarian volume of response). I challenged original content, I've exposed sourcing. If this is "pop wiki" let me know, because website hits aren't a valid reason for dismissal in any editing circles I've ever encountered. There was no OC, this is a false statement.Brokendoor 17:02, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Submit I am giving in on this discussion with points noted apologia presented. I do feel I could do a rewrite and fully cite this new rewrite. Once I post it, I only ask for any challenge brought up be in the talk section and AfD be held off until a full discussion is engaged. Claims of OC will be dismissed with a more focused approach on how this term exists. Anarchists have been using it for years, I am an anarchist. Anarchists tended to not announce the term "nihilist" because of the connotations of nihilism and anarchism to the bombing and assassination campaigns of the late 19th century and early 20th, especially in the United States. Red scares and white terror will "disappear" a tendency only to see its resurgance decades later. The term anarchism and anarchy went through these very same problems, people mistaking these terms with their neologisms. We are a tendency of individuals in the anarchist movement and we are influenced by who we say we are, we have announced our existance and our tendency is one of the fastest growing radical tendencies in the United States. Attempts to dismiss as a neologism again are unfounded. With proper citation and more depth in explaining the connections, I hope to dismiss claims of original content. Thank you for your time with this review. I don't know if I am allowed to close a review, but I am.Brokendoor 17:48, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse valid AfD, plus few ghits, nothing on Gnews, only two articles on JSTOR (spanning half a century), nothing on Factiva. There appear to be no sources for this outside of the pistosldrawn website. Feel free to rewrite in your userspace any time, and bring it back here, but you will need multiple references from independent reliable sources, in this case that would probably be peer-reviewed political science journals. Feel free to ask for help and advice on individual sources, people like to help. Guy (Help!) 10:50, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Shrubya – Deletion endorsed – trialsanderrors 00:55, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Someone deleted this as "unlikely typo". With 31,000 Google hits, the name "Shrubya" is not very "unlikely" to be typed in, and this is no typo! --Wiwaxia 04:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Tangent Though I must thank you for your support, I don't feel that this tangent is relevant to this discussion and would like it if it were not explored on this page to speed this process.Brokendoor 06:09, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I put this on 2007 January 21 because this is a nomination for undeletion being made on 2007 January 21. Not everything nominated today is required to have to do with nihilist anarchism. Wiwaxia 07:29, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Appologies Your subject wasn't tagged for review and made me think it was a response to mine. Nevermind.Brokendoor 08:51, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Stirling Newberry – closed, was on DRV last week – 11:53, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
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I don't see it meeting any speedy delete reasons; not WP:LIVING, {{db-bio}}, or {{db-attack}}. My !vote would be keep, but allow the subject to submit it to AfD.Arthur Rubin | (talk) 08:18, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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St. Ignatius-Sacred Heart rivalry – Speedily closed, still at AfD – 20:03, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
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St. Ignatius-Sacred Heart rivalry (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (remove current deletion|AfD)

This article was just created and got a deletion notice just five minutes after it was created[77]. This article didn't meet the Before nominating an AfD requirements and is completly User:Woohookitty over reacted [78]. This article is just going to be deleted for not being given a chance to be looked over by other users to clean it up. I had hoped this article would work out after I created this article but User:Woohookitty had to change its path without giving this article a chance. --Gndawydiak 08:50, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Eye of The Keeper – Deletion endorsed – 06:10, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
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Eye of The Keeper was deleted by Mistake. I cannot find my original posting in any records. It was posted by me, Mv7000. If you can find it, please undelete it. All information is truthful and verifiable at www.eyeofthekeeper.com Thank you. 74.96.112.217 21:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Geody – Deletion endorsed, unprotected – 06:12, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
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The administrator User:Bogdangiusca (who features the logo of the Italian terrorist group Red Brigades in his user page) deleted and locked this article, without even voting about it. Geody is a geographic search engine widely used especially together with NASA World Wind (in fact note that some users in Talk:NASA World Wind were surprised it was removed and then happy when it was recreated). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eltener (talkcontribs) 19:58, January 14, 2007

  • Question Is User:Bogdangiusca's user page (which features a parody of the Red Brigades logo) in any way relevant to the merits of the Geody article? Fan-1967 20:12, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Unsalt, possibly undelete and list at AFD It looks like a valid WP:CSD#A7, but there is an Italian language stub also [79], which makes it easier for me to suspect that there is some real notability. None of the deleted versions used any independent sources or really claimed notability. The stub needs expansion and improvement to reach article quality, and asserting some importance is necessary to avoid repeated speedy deletion. GRBerry 21:25, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Further evidence that it's a popular website It's been a "Featured Site" by AboutUs.org on September 22 2006: http://www.aboutus.org/Category:AboutUs_Featured_Site . gpsgames includes it within its map references: http://gpsgames.org/cgi-bin/maps.pl . See Talk:Geody for more links to reviews in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian. --Eltener 11:11, 15 January 2007 (UTC) Nominator's duplicate opinion removed. ~ trialsanderrors 21:55, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep deleted. Aboutus.org is a wiki, and one that is actually explictly for pages on websites published by their owners, from what I can see. (Hence "about us".) Being the daily feature is not a sufficient claim to notability. The links on Talk:Geody fall under blogs and passing mentions, the fact that they're in different languages isn't relevant. (If it is, can I rewrite this argument in German and have it count double?) Nor is the presence of an article in the Italian Wikipedia - WP:INN counts double for pages on other Wikipedias. While I can only understand Italian by proxy, I'm pretty certain that that article, if translated, would be an A7 as well. Will change my mind if I see coverage by multiple reliable sources, WP:COI raises the threshold for me to even advocate sending this to AfD. --Sam Blanning(talk) 12:08, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
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No, if you had translated it in German, it wouldn't have counted double, of course. But this is not the case, these are blogs (and some of them are very popular) and websites owned by different people from all over the world, which means there's a global interest. Also, AboutUs is a wiki but featured pages are not, and there are quite a few of them. What bothers me is that people here consider a reliable source only websites and means of communication owned by a media tycoon. --Eltener 09:26, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I wish you'll never have a friend killed by an act of terrorism. Probably if he would have called himself "the WTC bomber administrator" rather than referring to a less popular Italian group you'd have find outrageus as well, and considered him less trustworthy. --Eltener 09:26, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Camp Poyntelle – Deletion endorsed – 06:14, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
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Non advertising material, want to fix it BRappy55 00:23, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Overturn and AfD. NOT a valid G11, as it would not require a fundamental rewrite required by CSD to meet our writing standards. A few fixes from the "we" to "The camp" fixes most of the problems right away. --badlydrawnjeff talk 21:17, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • On the contrary, it reads like a pamphlet on the camp. How would it be fixed without a fundamental rewrite? --Coredesat 22:59, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • A descriptive article on the camp is going to be, well, descriptive. If only all articles could be this descriptive, really. As I said, when it stops reading "we" and starts reading like a description, it'll be fine content-wise. Perhaps not worthy of inclusion, but that's not for one person to decide, and that's what AfD is for. The article isn't bad, it needs a couple wording fixes and not a fundamental rewrite. --badlydrawnjeff talk 23:07, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • What, so "Meet Our Amazing Staff" is salvagable by changing it to "Meet The Camp's Amazing Staff"? It's been a while since I've even seen an article so unsalvagable. Not to mention "An ALMA MATER is set to the tune of a low-key, sad, quiet song, and words are written that describe the love the camp has for camp, and how important it is in the camp's lives". Or the fact that this is a valid Articles-7 deletion anyway, unless "Camp Poyntelle Lewis Village has been enriching the lives of campers for over 55 years" is a claim to notability. --Sam Blanning(talk) 23:13, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • Some stuff may need to be trimmed for POV. And this wasn't deleted as an A7 anyway, and I'd challenge an A7 on the grounds you cite as well as their apparent worldwide reach. The simple fact remains that this does not require a "fundamental rewrite" to meet basic standards for encyclopedic writing. --badlydrawnjeff talk 23:22, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
            • My mind boggles, it really does. I was wondering if you were reading an old Google cached version without the pamphlet, but then you wouldn't have recognised "Meet Our Amazing Staff", or "Meet The Camp's Above Average[citation needed] Staff", or whatever your version would read after it might have been 'trimmed'. --Sam Blanning(talk) 10:20, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. A directory entry at bast, spam at worst, from an editor with no other contributions. I am a cynic. Guy (Help!) 23:20, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Endorse. I don't think G11 was entirely appropriate, but I'll not second guess the exercise of discretion by the closing admin. I have serious doubts this would have survived an Afd in any event. Agent 86 00:13, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse something might be salvageable but it needs a top-to-bottom rewrite to remove spam and trivia. Content has been userfied; but as it is it needs to stay out of the article space. Eluchil404 12:15, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Job for a Cowboy – Deletion overturned and replaced with new version – 06:17, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
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Recently failed deletion review and was told to make on a user page first. This has been done and has everything we could find for them. It is here. It was moved back to the page due to my mistake early today, as I added this review in RFPP instead of here, this resulted in it being moved back to the userspace. The two albums still have their pages, so the Band should have theirs so they all link together. There are less notable bands on Wikipedia, so these should also be added. I understand not all the information is cited correctly on the page, so if anyone could add extra cited info it would be useful aswell. Moreover, there have been different edits to that page, so an older edit, might be better than a newer edit, so may need to be reverted. AsicsTalk 20:16, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Overturn a deletion that never should have occurred in the first place. The "Steers and Beers" tour was a six week national tour that went coast to coast (A tour diary was posted), and the original deletion was based around WP:MUSIC (which it clearly met) and possible sourcing issues (which I can't recall the original version of the article, but should have easily been dealt with). Easy overturn now. --badlydrawnjeff talk 21:03, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn per above, but I suggest that you read WP:INN and rephrase your nomination. Cbrown1023 21:26, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Sorry I didn't realise what I'd said, all I meant was that they have albums released and they are fairly famous. There are other articles releated, but that is of no consequence to this discussion and neither is my mentioning of they are more famous than other people on Wikipedia. However, I still feel they deserve a page.AsicsTalk 22:24, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hmmm. Two albums, one of which was re-released on a not entirely invisible label. All sources seem to be user-editable. Anything from the music press? Kerrang!, perhaps? Guy (Help!) 23:26, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Actually WP:MUSIC lists that as one of the things that make it likely that the subject meets the primary notability criterion, which is multiple non-trivial coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject. Absent those sources, we still can't have an article, even if they have toured the globe a hundred times. So actually the sources all being user editable absolutely is relevant, in a way that touring is not. Guy (Help!) 13:01, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Heh :-) I don't see too many crappy speedies, though. I think we need a minor change to process, mind, so that a speedy contested by an editor in good standing is rapidly userfied with a PROD tag. Guy (Help!) 11:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn : they meet WP:MUSIC requirements (see the user article for further informations): they are on an international concert tour, cited by reliable sources [80] [81]; their last album Doom was re-released by Metal Blade Records, which meet the notability criteria for independent indie labels (i.e. an independent label with a history of more than a few years and a roster of performers, many of which are notable, see wikipedia article on this label); are reviewed in [http: //www.metal-observer.com/articles.php?lid=1&sid=1&id=10778 metal-observer], which is often used for album ratings in wikipedia, and so must be considered a reliable source; are mentioned in MTV.com, for their upcoming tour, but also for their new contract with Metal Blade. Hervegirod 00:52, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist, there is definitely new information here. We can't just overturn a proper consensus based on new information, though, it needs to be relisted. -Amark moo! 01:32, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with you, they need to be relisted. Hervegirod 12:54, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
At least the European part of the tour comes from the Metal Blade web site, but this tour, as the US tour, can be found on numerous other metal sites, and other sites selling tickets as well. Hervegirod 00:37, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Noureddine Maamria, Dino Maamria – Deletion overturned, relisted at AfD – 06:19, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
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Was nominated with a multitude of other players who failed to meet WP:BIO (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martyn Woolford). The question of Dino Maamria's notability was raised in passing during the discussion, however I believe it was not fully addressed. Having played for Charleston Battery and Tunisia U21s he may count as a borderline case. Robotforaday 15:37, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, I have no problems with mass listings like this one, which was a fair way of dealing with a lot of highly comparable articles that had cropped up and fell outside the consensus of notability for football players. To deal with them any other way would have been highly unwieldy. A handful of the articles which were subsequently found to meet the notability criteria in WP:BIO, and were indeed saved. I merely want to ensure that a proper examination is given to this particular article. Robotforaday 09:55, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I see too many votes in support of the overturn option just because of a refusal for the idea of mass nominations. Nobody here actually tried to show the alleged notability about this guy. --Angelo 14:04, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
In fact, I tried to show that his non-notability might be (and was) disputed in the original afd- he has played for what might count as professional team in a fully professional league (Charleston Battery), and also has represented his country at U21 level. I do not know whether this will mean that he will be saved- but I think that it should certainly be discussed more fully than it has been, and if this means overturning and relisting the article in its own seperate afd, then so be it. Robotforaday 14:32, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Proteus (WAM-V) – Overturned per discussion, to be listed for AfD – 15:06, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
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My bad. Listing it for WP:AFD in a few seconds. Cheers! — Nearly Headless Nick 15:06, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted by Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington with the reason of Unremarkable people, groups, companies and web content. We had a civil discussion here about this and we agreed that this should go through a community review. My argument for significance can be found on the article's talk page. I believe that the version in my userspace should be restored to the original location. Fosnez 13:41, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hell Yeah – Deletion overturned, relisting optional – 06:21, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
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Since the article was deleted and pretected to prevent people from recreating it, the band has launched a website, been on the cover of Revolver magazine, released two singles (one to the radio and two are on myspace), and their album will be released on April 10th. In otherwords, there is a lot more information out there now than there was previously, and as such the article should be allowed to be created. Tedivm 07:01, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Further more, the band Hell Yeah is actually at the heart of a series of articles in the most recent (January/Feburary) Revolver Magazine, focusing on new releases for the upcoming year. While it may not seem it, Hell Yeah is very important to the metal community, as Vinnie Paul is coming back, and he is a legend of the scene [Pantera, Et all]. Atechi 07:05, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hell no. User:JzG/And the band played on... Wow, they made a website! That's not really hard these days. Neither is "publishing" singles to Myspace. Guy (Help!) 09:42, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Revolver is a notable magazine (it's a Future Publishing title), but if the band haven't yet even released any music outside MySpace and the radio, let alone an album, I don't think having an article in it - even a cover story - is enough. (We usually require multiple reliable sources in any case, not just one.) They could still sink without trace, having never released any significant material, leaving us with very little of worth to write on them. Endorse deletion for now until they release something significant. --Sam Blanning(talk) 12:58, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and move to Hellyeah, which looks like the correct name from the available sources. Even without a released album, they appear to meet WP:MUSIC due to the importance of the prior work of the band's members (who belonged to Pantera, Danzig (band), and Mudvayne, among other bands). The options for sourcing aren't great, but between the Revolver article, the band-member quotes in this IGN article, and the album release info in this MTV notes column (caution - irritating interface), I think there's enough for at least a workable stub. The AFD's close was acceptable given the lack of supporting information by the commentors, but with the stuff I found, I think the result should be overturned. -Hit bull, win steak(Moo!) 04:22, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse per Samuel and JZG. >Radiant< 11:51, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn - So (in order of least to most important) the band has a website, has singles out, has a release date for the album, its members had prior work in some of the most influential metal bands. This article is going to have to be created at some point, and it makes no sense for that time not to be now. There is no reason why this article shouldn't exist- the single is all over the radio, its clear that this isn't just some punk kids pet band, these are people who are signed to a label and have been doing this, professionally, for years. --Tedivm 17:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn per Hit bull, win steak. The band is now receiving commercial radio play and media coverage, obviating the prior deletion debate. Silensor 13:02, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn looks like the deletion was hasty. Media coverage shows the notability of the band. Now with rotation on radio they pass WP:MUSIC.  ALKIVAR 17:02, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn For me, the key argument is about a band formed from former members of notable bands. --Dweller 17:05, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn or at least unsalt per above. I've stayed out of this until now, but it appears they meet standards now. --badlydrawnjeff talk 17:25, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn or unsalt per above; they sound notable enough for a good-size stub. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 01:38, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • overturn and undelete this one please they are notable enough now with our music guideline yuckfoo 01:58, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Matt Norman – Filmnews2007 has reposted this yet again, and removed the PROD tag, so it's now at AfD – 12:55, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
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Significant article on a film-maker who is notable Filmnews2007 06:02, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there Could you please review your deletion of an article I put up that you deleted.

Article Matt Norman

Below is the opinion of another administrator? Thanks in advance.Filmnews2007 05:34, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Original message Re. Please tell me why you have deleted my entry - third time?

Hello. I believe that the article in question is Matt Norman. I did not delete this, but after checking the deletion log I can inform that it has been deleted three times by three different administrators. The reason stated for deletion was the speedy deletion criterion A7. This criterion states that an article may be speedy deleted if it provides no assertion of notability of the subject. After viewing the last version of the article I believe that it did assert notability. I recommend you to take this article to the deletion review and try to have the deletion overturned. I hope this helps. Regards,--Húsönd 12:24, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Weak overturn and send to AfD Matt Norman has been making films since 1996 and won numerous international awards for his work. from the google cache looks like an assertion, but unless it can be sourced, the article will be deleted at AfD. I only see one award mentioned at what looks like a very complete IMDb listing and can't find any secondary or reliable sources for it. Eluchil404 07:20, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I was deleting admin the third time on this article, deleting it as a repost. The previous admins were User:Rama's Arrow and User:Mailer diablo, both deleting as CSD A7. I endorse that reasoning — this article does not establish the notability of the subject, who is also likely the author of the article, leading to a significant conflict of interest. The IMDB references don't suggest work beyond the typical college film student. The supporting references are all about Peter Norman, who rightly has his own article. Having a famous family member doesn't make Matt worthy of an article, however. Endorse deletion. Tijuana Brass 07:25, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and AfD. Notability is unquestionably asserted, with references to IMDB and other sources. I agree that it is not established, but others may dispute that, and other sources may be found. Also, block Filmnews2007 for spamming. Guy (Help!) 09:48, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Eh... I don't think he was spamming with bad intentions; I think it was a case of a new user not knowing the process to follow when an article is deleted. In his shoes, I probably would have kept creating the article as well. I'd cut him some slack (but make sure he understands not to do it in the future). Tijuana Brass 22:16, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and send to AFD Notability is asserted.--Húsönd 14:48, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restore and send to AfD. Give him his day in court. Herostratus 16:18, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • C'mon you have to be kidding me. I ask that you please undelete this article Matt Norman and Salute - The Peter Norman Story(film) that I spent hours doing. To say that it has no notability is wrong. Please search the web and tell me if you truly think that this is not a part of history that documents the truth of what happened during one of the most dramatic moments in history. The person that made this film is actually the nephew of Peter Norman. I am getting sick of re-writing these articles knowing that they are being added to Wikipedia purely for Historic study. I suggest you actually look over the links and do a little searching of your own to find the notability of this film. Hate to say this but if LA Times, Washington Post, New York Times, Fox Sports etc etc etc think that this is the most important sporting and history story of the past decade then why is it that you have deleted it??????? Enough is enough. Please re-instate this! I feel like i'm editing these pages full time because there are a few people as administrators that know nothing about this part of history and the importance it has on our world. By the way, I was kind enough to go to the film-maker www.theactorscafe.com to get all information required. You may also get any information from his company by emailing him. I wouldn't like to be the person (GUY) who calls him a student film-maker. That was in very poor taste. If you still believe that this is not part of our history and not important enough for you to add to Wikipedia then yes I agree delete it. If this is deleted I'm afraid that I have lost all respect for Wikipedia and it's contents. I have looked through Wikipedia and found hundreds of actors, directors, films, bands with no credit at all that have been left alone. I am appauled by the lack of knowledge and the refusal by your administrators to open your eyes outside of Wikipedia. I truly thought this place was for people of all ages and demographics to study the world. To me you are showing that its for the world to study your own beliefs and not that of others. Do some research, on history, the olympics, black power, civil rights and you'll find that this is the only film and film-maker that has bothered to get all three men involved in this event together to tell the true story of history. I spoke with the film company about your responses and they personally said "if its not important enough for them to add then let them embaress themselves when the film comes out theatrically around the world in the coming months". There must be one administrator that is old enough to know the contents of this story and the amount of history which is about to be re-written because of it. That surely gives Notability to the subjects relayed in these articles. I'd also like the links that were removed from Tommie Smith and John Carlos re-instated. For obvious reasons.?????

I have reedit Matt Norman article. I'm not trying to do the wrong thing here but can any of you please view it and tell me its simple enough to be used in historic content in regard to Wikipedia? Thanks in advance. Filmnews2007 01:52, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Cookie diet – Deletion overturned, listed at AfD – 06:23, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
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I remember looking at this article once and it looked like a regular article.... I came back to look up something today and its gone!! At least, I can't find it anywhere, I didn't see any deletion debate.... anyway, if its been deleted by accident or for no apparent reason, it should be brought back. Its reported on ABC [82], NBC [83], etc [84][85][86].... //// Pacific PanDeist * 04:29, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Good article – Speedily closed, repeat nomination without new information – 21:58, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
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Personally, I do not know the circumstances of the template being previously deleted, I feel that good articles do deserve some recognition as featured articles do (even though GAs are not at the same level as FAs). Greeves (talk contribs) 03:11, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Stirling Newberry – Deletion endorsed, troll blocked – 00:36, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
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Stirling Newberry claimed that a fair and balanced view of his biographical info on the web was "Attacking" him and "libeling" him even though it was verified through numerous third party sources. We can't allow someone to get their biographies deleted because it doesn't present them in the 100% positive light that we all desire. Turbulantsalad 23:47, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Do a simple search of him on Google, he's notable, and there's both positive and negative information about him out there, the article presented both. Turbulantsalad 23:48, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A copy of the deleted article is posted at Stirling Newberry/workshop

  • Overturn, unless someone has evidence of WP:OFFICE. We don't delete articles because the subject does not wish an article. -Amarkov blahedits 23:56, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Deletion, he claims it was being used to slander him through a false myspace link which was repeatedly added, Google searches don't nessicerily represent notability, and it was repeatedly altered against WP:AUTO and WP:COI by Newberry, including adding multiple links to commercial sales sites for his own music. He's not a special person, he hasn't done anything to deserve an article, and until he does, he should remain with just a user page --feba 00:04, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Only the first thing matters, as the things which don't need to be discussed in a proper AfD are grounds for blocking of users, not deletion. And the first thing makes no sense, as a false myspace link should, again, be grounds for blocking. -Amarkov blahedits 00:07, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. Negative information, living person, zero sources. I've also deleted that /workshop page, and suggest that nobody recreates it unless they have sources. -- Steel 00:10, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There are sources for the info. Look at the page. Turbulantsalad 00:16, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Not reliable ones. -Amarkov blahedits 00:25, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I seriously disagree with the ability of the subject of the article to demand it's deletion without providing sources of his own. This practice today was completely out of line. Turbulantsalad 00:29, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Are you going to provide reliable sources or not? -- Steel 00:30, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes I am, however, I want someone to look at the actual incident in question. How was this a valid use of power? Why wasn't there an AFD? Why are we having to hash this out here? Turbulantsalad 00:34, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Because unsourced biographies of living persons must be immediately deleted. You must have sources for articles on living people. -Amarkov blahedits 00:35, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. Newbie here, but... straightout cut-and-paste from the user bio. Breach of NPOV from both sides - on the one hand it was altered with pejorative verbiage such as "inane" - on the other it was cut straight out of the subject's own self-written bio. Balance isn't achieved by merely breaching NPOV equally in opposite directions. No citations, no sources. 66.183.119.135 00:19, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Can IPs even vote? I believe you are Stirling Newberry not logged in, based on your history on the page. Turbulantsalad 00:31, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, they can vote here, and no, it isn't relevant who he is. -Amarkov blahedits 00:31, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Eraser (software) – Deletion endorsed – 00:24, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
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It is notable. I believe this software to be notable, I've heard about it many times, on many forums I've seen people that have claimed to use it, and seen several times people recommend it and mention it.

  • If you search on Google for "Eraser", not only does it appear on the first place, but also 2,3,5,10,12,14, etc, etc...
  • It has had 4,759,166 downloads just on SourceForge.
  • It is listed on 48'th place of Top Downloads (all time) on SF.
  • Mentioned in the media. It has media coverage. PC World Magazine article. Also mentioned in german magazine Chip Magazine where it got best file shredder award in a test. Just look at the huge press coverage list. Been mentioned in Wall Street Journal, New York Times, been distributed with CDs.
  • Been distributed on CDs shipped with magazines in Japan, Greece, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Norway, etc.
  • Mentioned in books. It's mentioned in the book Using Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, also mentioned on page 131 of the book "Identity Theft: Preventing Consumer Terrorism: An Attitudinal Approach".
  • It's even been mentioned on TV, on TechTV.

The notability is unquestionable. -- Frap 18:46, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse deletion Consensus clear in AFD. No information in appeal here. GRBerry 18:50, 19 January 2007 (UTC) Updating for change in appeal: forums (and wikis) are not reliable sources, notability is not determined by google hit counts. GRBerry 18:51, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. Smoke and mirrors was comprehensively blown away by Brian's thorough analysis of the purported sources. The fact that one lot of unsatisfactory sources was reinforced with another lot of equally unsatisfactory ones does tend to indicate that satisfactory sources are, in fact, absent. Do we have an article on the owner? If so, a redirect would be fine. Guy (Help!) 18:55, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Undelete it (Rm duplicate) Google says it's notable. Immediately after I mentioned the deletion in #wikipedia, someone was surprised it got deleted and said he have used it before. Search entries on Google, 1,2,3,5,10,12,14 are all about this software. Since Eraser is a word, for a software to get this many matches on Google, it indeed has to be notable. On the "Searches related to: Eraser", ALL entries are about this software. Eraser is unquestionably notable. -- Frap 19:01, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse valid AfD. Notable? Who knows, but this article certainly did not rise above the level of a directory entry (and WP:NOT a directory). Feel free to try again, establishing, from reliable sources, what is unique about this software. Guy (Help!) 20:32, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    One bolded opinion per opiner please, though with the appeal nom changing this many times I've been tempted to reopine myself. GRBerry 20:37, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, valid AFD. Google can't definitively say something is notable - it is only a rule of thumb and not a policy or guideline. --Coredesat 21:23, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, maybe Google don't decide what is notable, but what about 4,7 million downloads just on SF, what about the mention in 2 books, what about mentioned in like 30 magazines, including LA Times, NY Times, Wall Street Journal. What about being shipped on the CD with magazines in like 7+ different countries worldwide? If Eraser isn't notable, then 90%+ of the software on Wikipedia isn't notable. -- Frap 22:41, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Does not matter, because the AFD could be wrong. According to WP:SOFTWARE, it is quite notable. -- Frap 02:34, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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123 Pleasant Street – Deletion endorsed – 00:25, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
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This article survived a first AfD with an overwhelming majority of users supporting keep. A first DR was opened and closed in one day with participation only the nominator and one user. A second AfD was held, this time with opinions of both keep and delete. Delete had a mere majority but not even a super-majority, let alone a consensus. Article meets requirements WP:Local and has numerous cites, high G-hit count and one substantial source from a local print media with a circulation of 30,000 documented on a website. Editors of this article have committed to continuing improvement. This article should be undeleted because it has sufficient notability and verifiable sources to survive AfD, there is no honest consensus to delete and proper procedure has not been followed. Nominator is additionally concerned that deletion represents a thwarting of consensus Edivorce 17:02, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The original article was in DRV on Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 January 9, but the outcome was to relist on AfD, so we'll take a look. User:CharlotteWebb closed this as a keep, but User:Avraham deleted the article, and all the keep !votes were WP:ILIKEIT style arguments. I'm neutral because I didn't see the history the first time around, so I don't know if the sources were reliable, but seeing as the delete !voter talked about a blog and the official website, which are definitely not reliable... ColourBurst 18:17, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Second AFD now linked above; it was closed by User:Avraham as delete. GRBerry 18:35, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure The relisting was done by the admin that closed the first AFD. That is their perogative even if a deletion review is running, and is reason to close the deletion review. Such a decision on their part amounts to a decision that the first AFDs result should be disregarded henceforth. (The evidence there shouldn't be - and I don't see any evidence there that went unconsidered in the second AFD.) That invalidates the pair of keep opinions that were based only on having been kept in the first AFD. Google hits are long established as irrelevant to whether an article should be kept. Consensus is recorded in policy and guidelines, and to a lesser extent in precedents, and AFD discussions are about how to apply that consensus to a particular set of facts. Merge might have been a reasonable decision, but only material verfied from reliable sources should ever be merged. The article had no citations to reliable sources, so there wasn't anything to merge and it wasn't an option in this case. GRBerry 18:46, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Always? Some of the sources were claimed as not reliable by the one editor who was dead set on the article's deletion. In any event, is it not considered polite to allow a cooling off period before putting a page up for deletion again? I renominated a page on an Atlantic City councilperson that had far less effort put into saving it than this one, and was roundly thrashed for not waiting. DarkAudit 19:33, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, troutslap the people complaining about undue pressure, give the admin a cookie for admitting error. I see no reason why the consensus in the second AfD is invalid. -Amarkov blahedits 23:04, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment I don't see anyone but me (not people) raising undue pressure argument. I don't see what's appropriate about "trout slapping" me, but I guess I can take it. I do not see where any administrator "admitted error"- quite the opposite. Edivorce 03:34, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment Not invalid, but rushed. When it was looking like the original AfD was going to result in a Keep, the editor most adamant about a delete made it known that he was going to go here. The speed at which the review was closed and the second AfD opened seems to violate accepted etiquette for cooling-off periods before a renomination. Articles have been kept merely on the basis on opening a second AfD "too soon". Articles that had far less effort going into saving than this one did. DarkAudit 14:31, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Rogers Ltd., Inc. – Restored and listed at AfD – 00:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
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I created this page based on a link on the Middletown, Ohio page. Rogers is one of the top 20 biggest jewelry retail chains in the US, and is also historically significant in the area (which is why somebody else thought it notable enough to be mentionned in the middletown page). If the page is undeleted, I will be sure to mark it as a stub and will keep expanding it. jh75

  • Undelete (and AfD if anybody feels the need) it's a store chain with a 90-year history and 46 locations. I'm pretty sure a decent article could be written about it, and it certainly has enough notability to be given the scrutiny of a full AfD process. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:16, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sigh. Userfy or undelete One sentence sub-stub, plus two external links. More information here than was in the article. GRBerry 16:51, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion without prejudice. This was a near-worthless article on an apparently worthwhile subject. Create a page with actual content, no need to come here. >Radiant< 11:48, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Atticus Clothing – Speedy restore of non-copyvio, non-General-11 revisions. – 11:26, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
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A notable clothing company. I found an older version on answers.com and I think it was deleted because it sounded like an advertisement (a section of it was a copyvio from their website). If restored, I'll cleanup the copyvio and add a bit to it. kollision 05:36, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Brastel – Deletion endorsed – 00:38, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
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  • Keep deleted It's at least an advertisement (I haven't checked for copyright), and was deleted twice before I delete-protected it against continued recreation. It is littered with advertising phrases like "Diverse cultural skills and specialized training enable Brastel's staff to offer the highest level of service to its diverse international customers in Japan. ", "The company also created customized CRM technology to effectively develop customer profiles and follow-up on their specific needs. This entrepreneurial spirit...", "The key to Brastel's success and long-term growth has been the balance of customized cutting-edge technology and highly skilled professionals who have the linguistic and cultural abilities, as well as professional skills to serve over 20 distinct markets.", "The product was an instant success", "The new prefix gave customers the option to make international calls at even lower rates than offered before...", "Brastel improved its CRM and switches to increase flexibility and stability in order to better track its increasing number of calls. Today, the company provides connections to 240 countries and territories and offers customer_service in more than 20 languages.", " Brastel advertises in the most influential foreign media channels" It's just a puff, reads like it's produced by the company, no criticism or comparison with competitors. jimfbleak 06:53, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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christianforumsite – Requester appears content happy with rationale for deletion – 18:57, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
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Can you please recreate the article on camp poyntelle i believe it was deleted for no reason. There was an article on christianforumsite which was removed because it lacked popularity. However, I am putting this site for review because it has grown much larger than it previously was and this site appears on top lists of Google, Yahoo and MSN searches for the keyword 'christian forum'. Hence this site can be associated with this keyword. Please check this out and its alexa ranking to see if the article that was one deleted, could be restored.

  • The site is www.christianforumsite.com
  • Alexa Ranking: [89]

131.172.4.45 01:42, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Constitution Society – Deletion endorsed. – 10:00, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
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New article being written in stages Jon Roland 00:35, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is a fairly prominent organization, founded in 1994, whose website is at or near the top in searches on constitutional terms, and many sites and organizations link to its extensive collection of online reference material.Jon Roland 00:38, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above comment suggests that because some adminstrators don't think an individual is suffiently notable for inclusion, therefore the organization in which he is involved should be excluded. That is a non sequitur. The CEO of Home Depot (Frank Blake) might not be notable but does that mean Home Depot should be excluded?
There is also a problem with rapid removals of new articles, which are likely to be written slowly over a period of several days by people not yet familiar with the formatting conventions, policies, and other considerations. On behalf of others, I urge administrators to give contributors a fair opportunity to answer criticisms, which should be emailed to them since most people are not going to be actively checking the various talk pages.Jon Roland 01:09, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Are you arguing the organization is not notable? It is reasonable to require third-party validation of the notability of individuals whose names are not household words, but I find no such validations in a casual visit to the pages of other organizations in the field. Have you tried going to the search page linked above and entering the word "constitution" in any of the search engines linked there? Do you notice that the site of the organization appears at or near the top of most of them? That seems like notability to me.Jon Roland 01:35, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
What is the basis for your position that an article on the organization is "self-promotion"? How are you distinguishing the organization and its activities from similar organizations, such as the Federalist Society, the American Constitution Society, or the Cato Institute? Yes, I am the webmaster, and produced much of the content, but the overwhelming bulk of the content of the site was written by other people, even though I might have edited it. Most organizations have single individuals as webmasters who do that, and many publishers of the works of others have single editors who edit the submissions of the others.
As an interesting note on one of those other organizations, the American Constitution Society, they were originally organized as a "progressive" opposition to oppose the "conservative-libertarian" Federalist Society (mainly for lawyers although both accept nonlawyers as members), and first tried to get the name "Constitution Society", but discovered we already had it. Then they tried for "Madison Society" (Madison would have turned over in his grave), but found there was an existing organization with that name as well. They finally just tacked "American" in front of their original choice. We are the "strict constructionist" or "originalist" alternative to both of those, taking positions usually labeled as "libertarian". That would seem to put us in the same niche as the Cato Institute, except that their focus is on new work by their "fellows", and ours is on primary sources of constitutional thought by the Founders and those they read and who knew their thought. We thought it best to first lay down the historical foundations of constitutionalism before going to to applying it to present issues.Jon Roland 13:58, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, the only undeletion reason given is that it's linked from many sites and therefore popular in search engines. That might make it an interesting case study for search engine optimization, but not notable for an article. - Bobet 11:54, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
What is important about being linked to from many sites is that the webmasters of those sites or their supervisors consider the organization and its activities, as evidenced by the contents of its website, as notable and worthy of the attention of their own visitors. There are no tricks of search engine optimization involved. Just the quality and quantity of the content. If you look at those links to it you will find abundant evidence of notability of the organization apart from its webmaster/editor.
Do the administrators have some prejudice against the content and positions of the organization or its webmaster? Is this about ideology? That may be unfair, but that is certainly the impression one gets from the above comments.Jon Roland 13:58, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
So is that what it's about? Prejudice against me personally? Is anyone here even bothering to look at the site where all this evidence is readily to be found, or are you content to just make knee-jerk reactions? Okay. I'll ask around to see if any of our people are versant with Wikipedia. Probably not, since I think one of them would have mentioned it. Several know regular HTML, at least to save into it from a word processor, which is why they let me do the website, but this is a new system of formatting for us, including me. However, since the article is blocked, How do we submit it? Do you want one of us to submit the entire article here on the talk page?Jon Roland 00:13, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, they can be, but it is also easy to examine a site to see that that is not what was done. It should also be noted that the high ranking has persisted since the search engines came online more than 12 years ago. This is not a new organization.Jon Roland 00:13, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Since the article is blocked, the only way to submit such sources is through this talk page. Here is the original article with some secondary sources added. More to follow:

(Copy and paste of entire article removed. -- Steel 00:22, 20 January 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Jon Roland 00:13, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Those are not sources. You still don't have sources. You have sites which link to it, but that does not make a source. -Amarkov blahedits 00:18, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
All right, now you have me confused. As far as I can tell from your guides a "secondary source" is something written by someone else, but how is that to be offered if not in either a link or a quote as part of the article? Are you saying a "secondary source" can only be another member-contributor to Wikipedia? The guides don't seem to say that. Is this a communication problem, or are are you reading your own guides differently than a newcomer to Wikipedia does?Jon Roland 00:31, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
A secondary source is a newspaper, magazine, reputable website which is peer reviewed and whose sourcing can be trusted, which has written an article/column/posting of which the subject of the article is the primary focus of the article. The source cannot be associated with the subject of the article. User:Zoe|(talk) 00:46, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The source also must provide information on the subject; it can't just link to the site. -Amarkov blahedits 00:51, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, now I am beginning to see what you want. Let's see if we can clarify the boundaries. According to the above statements, it would not be sufficient for a reputable site to have something like:
We have determined after thorough research that the four most prominent organizations in the field of x are
because it doesn't say anything specific about any of them. Similarly, it would not be sufficient to have the conference proceedings, distributed to attendees, have something like:
We asked one of the most notable organizations in this field, the Constitution Society, to provide a speaker for this conference, and they provided ...
because conference proceedings are not of sufficient stature in themselves, and it doesn't say anything more about the organization than that it is "most notable". Further, it would not be sufficient to have an extensive article on the organization in a professional journal that is no longer being published and available in only a few remote libraries and not available through interlibrary loan to verify it.
But it would spoil the esthetics of most articles to submit the evidence required within the article itself. After all, the articles of the organizations listed above don't have that. Presumably the evidence was presented through another channel, such as this talk page. I wouldn't want to clutter the article on the Constitution Society with evidence of its notability. I don't mind submitting it to the administrators directly, however.
But how do we present evidence that is not online or accessible for verification? Is there a way we can send images of pages of the sources? Or snailmail paper copies?Jon Roland 01:53, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You have established notability. That is not in question. However, you still must be able to source the article, which it seems you can't do. -Amark moo! 02:04, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Not easily, because, as I said, we don't keep a scrapbook. I have heard about such sources, but almost never inquire further, or ask for a copy. I don't even have copies of most of my television appearances (Dateline NBC April 25, 1995, interviewed by Stone Phillips, several appearances on C-SPAN, etc.). That may seem strange to others, but our organization and its missions differ somewhat from those of others. It has been our policy to disclose only certain things, after some discussion, and to keep many of our most important activities, members, donors, etc., strictly need-to-know. When part of one's mission is to expose criminality in government, one acquires powerful enemies, and other efforts that have been careless about security have paid a severe price. So, for example, when we issue press releases about some subject, we focus on the subject and hold back on what is going on behind the scenes by our people. We help organize meetings, but usually under the names of other organizations not well known to be connected with us. If we want to hold a national meeting, we just all agree to attend one, such as the annual gathering of the Federalist Society, and caucus in a hotel room or restaurant.
So, although this has been an interesting exercise, I am not sure it is a good idea to pursue it further. Perhaps it is better to just let others write the article, if they wish to do so, and, except for selected information such as our website, to remain somewhat in the background. Thanks for the consideration of the administrators, and please visit our site as ordinary visitors without an editorial mission.Jon Roland 03:06, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
One final point, for the benefit of future reviews. You might check all the links to documents on the Constitution Society site, and to the Society itself, in many articles in several languages which were submitted by other contributors, who it would appear consider the site and its organization notable enough for the purposes of that article. This is also a counter to the charge that the high ranking of the site is the result of "gaming" the search engines. The Alexa rank for Wikipedia for the Society's website is 15.Jon Roland 21:15, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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List of United States Representatives from MinnesotaRedirect closure overturned, further discussion at WT:USC – 01:08, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
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  • Endorse Deletion. User:Markles, who voted to keep the article, has reverted the deletion and added a sentence at the top "justifying" its existence. The admin correctly decided that the article (although less than 20% complete) duplicated information already on another article (which is 100% complete). My issue is that 100s of articles link to the article through templates that cannot really be changed. Therefore we can't link to the complete article other than through a re-direct, which was the admin's (User:Eagle 101)'s decision. I hope User:Eagle 101's decision will be enforced Appraiser 23:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Enforce redirect, and troutslap Eagle for citing the wrong AfD. -Amarkov blahedits 00:05, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I just set the wikitable class to "sortable". I would propose to userfy so this can be completed and then replace the table that's currently in United States Congressional Delegations from Minnesota. The sortable class still has its kinks, but eventually this will be a much better format then the one that's currently used. ~ trialsanderrors 03:32, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn redirect. A fact that is being glossed over here is that the two articles are NOT duplicates. Saying that they both contain the same information is like saying that Minnesota should be redirected to United States because the information is duplicated (obviously an extreme example). In this case, the United States Congressional Delegations from Minnesota article is intended to show what the state's delegation to a particular congress looked like by district and the List of United States Representatives from Minnesota is intended to highlight the people who represented Minnesota in Congress — two very different concepts. I also request that people consider these changes in the wider Congressional context.--G1076 12:15, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Overturn redirect. The admin incorrectly counted a 5-6 vote (counting User:Pmeleski) against deletion as a consensus for deletion. The articles are different, not the same. Their contents are different. Their layouts are different. There are 49 other sets of articles with simliar formats (United States Congressional Delegations from Foo, List of United States Representatives from Foo, and List of United States Senators from Foo. Representatives are only part of a Congressional Delegation. The "Congressional Delegations" articles are presented with both chanbers, are ordered chronologically and by class or district, and include no other information about the Members & Senators. The List articles are ordered alphabetically and include hometown and note the reasons for vacancy. These articles are not yet complete, but that's even more reason to keep them as encouragement for Wiki editors to add to them. Wikipedia is not a finished static product.—Markles 13:44, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn redirect and relist (and I say this as a person who voted for redirecting this). At the time I thought it was a standard case of a duplicate article and in such cases redirection solves all the problems. I was unaware that since I entered that vote, arguments with some merit were presented opposing such a measure. As such, I think that AFD might have made a poor decision in this case and it deserves another review. Sjakkalle (Check!) 15:54, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse • Duplication of information that exists elsewhere in Wikipedia. Cheers, ✎ Peter M Dodge ( Talk to MeNeutrality Project ) 18:53, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Close as Keep. WP:AFD decides whether a consensus exists to delete a given article. Lack of consensus means the article is kept by default. Those are the only two valid outcomes of an AfD discussion. A close as "redirect" or "merge" is equivalent to "keep". It is not an enforceable decision. It can be undone - like any other redirect or merge - at any time. It is part of the normal editing process. Hence, it is not a matter for DRV review. --JJay 19:13, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Um... you could interpret it that way. My interpretation, though, is that a redirect outcome is equivalent to "delete, but don't break links to the page". -Amarkov blahedits 23:09, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Well, you would be wrong because the article was never deleted. Redirect does not equal delete. --JJay 00:58, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • I don't think it's going to convince you. Had the article actually been deleted, though, we would probably not be having this conversation. Nevertheless, I would strongly encourage you to review deletion policy at wikipedia, which is quite specific:
An AFD decision is either to "keep" or "delete" the article. The AFD decision may also include a strong recommendation for an additional action such as a "merge" or "redirect"...These recommendations do represent the community consensus and also should not be overturned lightly. However, these are actions which can be taken by any editor and do not require "admin powers". Guide to deletion --JJay 01:25, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Despite your implication, that is not the deletion policy. -Amarkov blahedits 01:28, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please...it's linked from the top of the policy page. If you think something contradicts that quote, please point me to the page. But so far, your belief that a redirect recommendation in an AfD close is equivalent to a delete result is completely unsupported by policy. --JJay 01:34, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
If the consensus is to delete it, but still have a useful page at the title, then it should have a redirect in place of the article. It doesn't really matter what guidelines, policy, or whatever say a certain thing means, if that is not how it was intended. -Amarkov blahedits 01:41, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Two points: 1) There was no consensus to delete the article in the present case. The closing admin did not close the article as delete; 2) The situation that you describe, i.e. consensus for deletion achieved during an AfD discussion, but also a desire to create a redirect for whatever reason, is generally handled differently. In that case, the article is first deleted and a redirect is then created without the page history. --JJay 02:08, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You're missing my point. I believe that closing as redirect is usually equivalent to "delete, but make it useful". -Amark moo! 02:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Anyone can and frequently does believe anything they want to believe. But does that make it true or supported by policy, practice and reality? You are certainly entitled to believe that a redirect is equivalent to "delete but make it useful". You might even want to make that explicit in your future AfD participation. I would find it hard to argue, though, that List of United States Representatives from Minnesota is a really valuable, crucial or even "useful" redirect for United States Congressional Delegations from Minnesota. Rather, it would seem that certain editors believed that undoing the redirect and restoring the article was even more "useful". Nothing prevents that action, and the only way of resolving the situation, in the event of conflict, would be a subsequent AfD nomination that results in a conclusive "delete" or "keep" outcome. That is the approach that should have been taken by the nom here (after talk page discusion). Barring page protection for a redirect, this can't be resolved on DRV, unless the close is overturned as delete.--JJay 03:24, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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MSM-07 Z'GokNo consensus closure overturned, article deleted – 01:10, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
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It's high time admins started ignoring WP:ILIKEIT votes and actually began closing debates on policy. Votes with reasons such as "Suit plays a strong role in the invasion of Jaburo from the Original Mobile Suit Gundam" should be discounted. Nor should votes that say "keep because too many similar nominations all at once" be held to contribute towards any meaningful debate. This article violated and violates WP:V, WP:OR, WP:RS and WP:FICT. Many of the keep votes were gained through meatpuppetry soliciting on an external fansite: see [90]. Overturn and delete. Moreschi Deletion! 21:32, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Overturn and DeleteRelist. Yes, although I was the deciding admin, my personal vote would have been to delete as well. In this situation, I tried to approach each of this list of articles on the merits of its own discussion, and this one's was slightly stronger. Personally, I would rather see it deleted as WP:CRUFT as well, but I try and be extra careful to follow consensus as opposed to letting my own feeling override when making these decisions, as I feel admins need to be held to a higher standard for propriety and fairness's sake. -- Avi 22:16, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Was there or wasn't there a consensus to delete? You said that there was no consensus, but then you want to overturn your verdict becasue you think the article should be deleted anyways. This isn't a reargument of the AFD but whether the wrong conclusion was reached in closing. --Farix (Talk) 22:50, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • As strange as it sounds, I felt that were I to have voted (which admins are allowed to do, mind you), that would have made the result to delete. As I said, in general, I try not to have my vote be the deciding factor if I am the closing admin, so I bent over backwards in the interest of impartiality and even though without my vote it could have been decided as delete, I could see enough wiggle room that "no consensus" would be appropriate, and so closed as such. This one was not an unambiguous "no consensus" but a borderline "consensus to delete". You are correct, though, that I should not be placing my voting opinion here, so I have changed it to "Relist", and if it is, I will vote delete. Thank you -- Avi 14:45, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and delete, most keeps are from a WP:ILIKEIT standpoint or otherwise unrelated to policy or guidelines. AFD is not a vote. --Coredesat 22:51, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist I take the closing admin as saying that he read the consensus correctly but we got the wrong answer. The link in the appeal here shows discussion both for keeping and deleting, so which way it affected the debate is unreadable. I see at least one delete opinion that most likely originated from that thread. Given this, relisting looks like the best path forward. GRBerry 22:54, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and Delete: two keep comments appeared to be based on "not fair", two approximated votes, and one didn't make any sense whatsoever. I don't see how to draw a keep consensus from this AfD. Angus McLellan (Talk) 22:56, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and delete as above; two reduce to "Keep because it's good", one was roughly based on "YOU ARE ALL ACTING IN BAD FAITH", and the other two were completely irrelevant. -Amarkov blahedits 00:07, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and delete. Odd, really, every other one of this set of fictional characters has been deleted, two of them by the same admin, and the arguments on this AfD even look a bit weaker than the generally weak arguments on the others ('WP:FICT over-rides reliable sources and verifiability'). —Centrxtalk • 01:20, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and delete. A few "I Like It!" and "It's too many!" votes, and a relatively incoherent claim that fictional subjects are somehow immune to standard reliable sources/verification requirements, adds up to nothing. --Calton | Talk 02:15, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and delete per Moreschi's excellent rationale. :) JuJube 06:05, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist While the policy based "votes" in the AfD don't favor retaining the article in its current form, I think that it would benefit from further discussion as to whether there is anything worth merging or not. Eluchil404 12:05, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment The fancruft thing is an essay, and not a policy. As an admin, you should really know better. Jtrainor 15:32, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • If you are talking to me, then I am not sure what you mean. I did not delete it due to cruft alone, that is the reason it is here on DRV, to delete. My own opinion is that I do not believe that most of these items are encyclopædic, and thus they clutter the project with this detritus. -- Avi 01:25, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Mami Wata Healers Society of North America Inc. – Deletion endorsed – 01:11, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
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There was an on-going discussion of the controversial deletion of the MWHS Mami Wata Healers Society Page of which the admin has not presented convicing evidence that the article was in violation of wiki policy or in need of iimprovement. Although there was a "concensus" of having the page deleted, we believe this effort is being spearheaded by one of the admins in retaliation for us contributing heavily to an article he has written. The MWHS has presented legal and foreign documents of its legitamcy and its notability to the Diaspora communities.None of the "voters" are of the Diaspora nor of the the religions of which we pratctice. When we went to post more discussion, the arricle was removed compleltely without our being offically informed of the final discussion or outcome. We cannot notify the admin because we do not know who deleted the page. (posted by Syrthiss, as Mwhs (talk · contribs · count) had not moved the template outside the commented area) 18:10, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Ragnarok Online jobs – Deletion endorsed – 01:11, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
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Ragnarok Online jobs (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|AfD)

This article was created to make the Ragnarok Online article shorter. Jobs are one of the most important and distinguishing components of gameplay according to Gravity itself and thus any deletion of said material represents an attempt to deny a quality article to be written about the game. If you have a problem with material which is accurate and in the attempt to document an important subject of the game, I would advise listing all Dungeons and Dragons or Final Fantasy articles discussing classes for deletion as well as removing all mention of characters or classes from the articles in question in question. And before someone comments, the subsection on "Bandit" was both inaccurate and vandalism. Kari Hazzard (T | C) 14:22, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Is what was in the article this? If so, reluctant endorse because there's generally nothing wrong with the closure or the consensus at the AfD. The important thing is that the information is preserved, which appears to be the case. If the consensus of editors at the main page still think it should be broken off, then that consensus should probably be made clear on the talk page of the other article to try and protect against a G4. --badlydrawnjeff talk 14:37, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I am led to believe thus by User:Prod I have not actually seen the article, and thus do not know. Kari Hazzard (T | C) 15:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes to Badlydranjeff's question, plus a largish number of fair use images, as mentioned by the AFD nominator. (There may have been a word or two changed here or there subsequently, but the same paragraphs of the same numbers of lines exist.) GRBerry 16:37, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Then, in this case, I utterly fail to see the problem. The information is readily available. --badlydrawnjeff talk 17:51, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, this is not AFD II. The AFD proceeded, and was closed, correctly (with, IMO, the correct result, Wikipedia isn't a game guide). As an aside, the presence of other game (guide / cruft / valuable information / call it what you will) does not justify the presence of the article in question. Articles are assessed on their own merit at AFD. Proto:: 14:41, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This is deletion review, and according to policy is the proper forum for discussion problems with an AFD that has proceded. The presences of other "cruft" is not the justification used for the review, simply an aside to the point. The point is that the job system is one of the most fundamental and important aspects of the game according to the company and thus an attempt to remove such material represents an affront on having a quality article on the subject. Should we write an article on the United States but leave no mention of George W. Bush in it too? Kari Hazzard (T | C) 15:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
An attempt to remove material from Wikipedia which is critical to Wikipedia being accurate and complete violates WP:POINT and is therefore Bad faith. Kari Hazzard (T | C) 15:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You are actually the one assuming bad faith from the nominator here, in my opinion. This is what was on the main page before it was split: [91]. If the content of the page was that, I think I would have voted for the deletion myself. -- lucasbfr talk 15:18, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
OK, so the next logical question is why should Wikipedia strive to be incomplete? Why remove material which is both accurate, relevant and necessary for Wikipedia to represent the subject? Is there some policy stating that necessary information must be removed? (If there is, I'd assume it would be in humour, a la Wikipedia:Assume bad faith.) Kari Hazzard (T | C) 15:38, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The consensus is that the information is not necessary. The fact you disagree with this is noted, but doesn't override that consensus or mean that people who disagree with you are acting in bad faith. --Pak21 16:00, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This is the place to discuss incorrect deletions per WP:UNDEL. This case meets the primary criterion of that policy (i.e. "will this make Wikipedia better"). Also, please remember to be civil. I will not tolerate your harassment. Kari Hazzard (T | C) 16:24, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Um... what harrasment would you have to tolerate? And I'm fully aware that you think it will make Wikipedia better, but the AfD shows that consensus is that it does not. -Amarkov blahedits 00:08, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. No evidence of bad faith or out-of-process conduct; the nominator cited policy and all participants in the AFD discussion made relevant arguments for deletion. --Muchness 15:55, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion AFD was unanimous, which makes consensus obvious. No process or policy failures. Data is now (back?) in Ragnarok Online. Whether it survives there is subject to the usual editing process there; it can't be spun back out as a stand alone article. If the article needs to be shorter, consider limiting the material to be less of a game guide and adhere more closely to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction) - the individual jobs may not merit a full paragraph. GRBerry 16:37, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse unanimous AfD, and because Wikipedia is not Gamefaqs. Ragnarok Online is notable, but that does not make fan documentation of individual elements of the game encyclopaedic. If this were a Trek subject I'd say take it to Memory Alpha. Perhaps the Ragnarok community should set up its own Wiki. Guy (Help!) 18:52, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As an aside, it has. Within the Trek subject, though, can we fairly document Star Trek without discussing Spock or Captain Kirk? Something that is integral to the accuracy and completeness of the article should not be removed so hastily. Kari Hazzard (T | C) 19:28, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong endorse deletion, unanimous and valid AFD. This isn't AFD II, and this may well warrant a speedy close as there is no information given in the nomination other than that "deletion denies any attempt to write a good article on this subject" and that "all articles of type X should now be deleted because article Y was deleted". --Coredesat 22:54, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse, Just because the topic is important within the context of the game doesnt make it important outside of that context. In the end all wikipedia articles need to be written from outside the fictional universe and evaluated from that basis. Oh, we can compare it to Kirk and Spock just after "Ragnarok Online jobs" is featured in several blockbuster movies. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 23:44, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse valid AFD, and a unanimous valid AfD at that. No way the closer could possibly have closed it any differently. The argument "important and distinguishing components of gameplay" is quite silly, really. The little plastic dude who dives into the pan is an absolutely vital part of Mouse Trap, but that doesn't mean he gets an article. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 02:32, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion; intimate gameplay details are not encyclopedic. Other sites (such as GameFAQs) can handle it much better than we can anyway. The parent article needs a single paragraph that summarizes what jobs are, what the jobs are, etc. It shouldn't necessarily be complete and it certainly shouldn't be exhaustive. --Cyde Weys 18:19, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Analytic/Anglophone and Continental Philosophy – Deletion endorsed – 10:27, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
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Analytic/Anglophone and Continental Philosophy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|AfD)

Rename and edit I hope will overcome problem. Also many other pages link to it and need it for information

Article was deleted because it's name was "Analaytic/Anglophone and Continental Philosophy". Restoring the article with a new name "Analytic and Continental Philosophy" is proposed. Any content disputes can then be handled by normal editing. Lucas 17:24, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse deletion. The AfD was closed properly on an apparent consensus to delete (not just to rename), and many other concerns aside from the title were presented: for instance, that the article was unsalvageable original research, that it had NPOV problems, and that its hastily produced "references" didn't actually appear, when checked, to support the claims they were attached to. Since then, User:Lucaas has re-created the article by cut-and-paste at least once. I'd suggest finding a non-Wikipedia outlet for this non-encyclopedic material. -- Rbellin|Talk 18:50, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I am not an expert in philosophy. But perhaps my opinion still counts: keep deleted, at least in this form. An article about the differences between these two schools may be warranted, but as I already said several times in different places: I'd recommend starting a new article from the scratch, by somebody who wasn't involved with the original one. - Mike Rosoft 21:44, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion - POV/WP:NOR per the AfD. The community's concensus was correct in the matter - the article is beyond any hope of salvaging decent, encyclopedic content. Henceforth, my decision is to endorse the deletion, as Rbellin and Michael. Regards, Anthonycfc [TC] 00:17, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn' The claims of POV are editable, there are 13 major references and 40 editors work involved. I quote here from a well known US philosopher, Babich:
there is a difference between analytic and continental approaches to philosophy not only because it is obvious and not only because as a professor of philosophy I live on the terms of a profession dominated by this noisome distinction but because the claim that there is no such distinctive divide is politically manipulative.

Seems that wiki is even more conservative than mainstream media and printing where alot more has been said on this issue; it cannot handle interesting or controversial issues if it just deletes by majority vote, since after 5 days of delete review 4 were for keepoing it, 7 against (which was coordinated), that is not even a 2/3 majority but it was deleted still. The act of suppression I take as a serious infringment. Editors have been able to work on this article and remove any particular point they see fit. There is no reason to delete it there have been many reasons to revise it.

Also the article has received references from outside wikipedia, also one person on the talk page said it was the most informative they've read in philosophy wiki (which mostly just trots out old saws) It is referenced from many wikie pages, Analytic, Continetal, Philosophy, etc. --Lucas 13:27, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Now let's move on to the main issue; the AFD close. I'm going to say that it was within the reasonable limits of administrator discretion, and therefore endorse closure, because I'm accepting the decision that we are better off leaving recreation of material on this topic to other editors or another time. GRBerry 23:53, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Irish Tenors – Edit history restored behind recreated article – 22:13, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
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Was speedy deleted as "not notable"; But, the Irish Tenors are definitely notable. Others were working on this article and had placed the {{hangon}} tag, so I think the deletion was out of process too. This article was on my watchlist, to be created at some point. The Irish Tenors meet WP:BAND, at the very least "Has been the subject of a half hour or longer broadcast on a national radio or TV network." Their concerts have been broadcast numerous time on PBS. [92] They also have other media coverage: [93] [94] [95] and further google search turns up more. And, they play at major venues such as Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in the Washington, D.C. area [96] and Liverpool Summer Pops in the U.K. [97]. I don't like to wheel war, but think this is a clear case. --Aude (talk) 16:54, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Talk:Angry Nintendo Nerd – Deletion endorsed – 10:28, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
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Give us achange to prove that the actual site is notable, don't delete the friggin' talk page! 80.222.183.225 15:41, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is a deletion review, you've got one right here. Any non-trivial coverage by reliable sources? Endorse deletion of orphaned talk page per CSD General-8. --Sam Blanning(talk) 16:23, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Starblind, I don't know what it is with you, but you seem to really take pride in destroying this article. Do you have some sort of personal vendetta? Or is the power just getting to your head? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.67.161.6 (talk) 04:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]
Oh, darn, you caught me. It's all part of my master plan, you see. It was based on three steps: Step 1: Keep unreferenced web-meme articles without sources off Wikipedia. Step 2: ??????. Step 3: Take over the world! Granted, I'm not absolutely certain what step 2 is going to be just yet, but step 1 is going swimmingly. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:23, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Typical. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.67.161.6 (talk) 02:33, 21 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]
He was featured on MTV. Way to contribute a useless and outright wrong, "I agree" post. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.67.161.6 (talk) 04:46, 20 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]
According to fans of the Angry (Nintendo/Video Game) Nerd, he appeared on MTV for a few seconds. WP:NOTE states non-trivial coverage, meaning something more than a quick cameo on a TV show or mere mention in a print source. NeoChaosX (talk, walk) 18:32, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Spazio, Tempo, Eternità – Userfied by deleting admin – 22:37, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
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Proxy listing for Marce1979 who re-created the page with:

please recover this page, i have started my translation before the deletion and when i have saved the page is already deleted.

Was deleted by Tijuana Brass as CSD A2. Flyingtoaster1337 11:30, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse A2 but facilitate translation CSD A2 requires an article on another language version. That exists at the Italian Wikipedia. I don't read Italian to even know if claims notability; WP:BOOK would be the relevant proposal. Here is how far the translation got in the prose "Spazio, Tempo, Eternità it's a philosophyc essay of Redento Gianola (1943-2004), published in 2006. (NEW PARAGRAPH) Carmelo Vigna (teacher of philosophy at the University of Venice and". The infobox should be trivial, or we can restore to a user sub-page if you prefer. GRBerry 14:46, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - I've restored this one temporarily in order to send it to Marce's userspace. I don't expect anybody to have a problem with that, but I'll let another admin close this review so it won't be a unilateral move on my part. Tijuana Brass 23:45, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Further Links for Cumberland, Maryland – Deletion endorsed – 10:28, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
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After many discussions with User:Metros232 who deleted the links section on the main Cumberland, Maryland page against that pages' talk page, I moved the links to it's own page to find some middle ground with User:Metros232, instead it was nominated for speedy deletion. These links pertain to Cumberland and the Cumberland Metro Area, are informative and have further information on topics discussed in the main page, and have been discussed in the Cumberland, Maryland talk page and the consensus was to leave them be. I would like the page deleted to be undeleted, at best the links be allowed back to the main page...but undeletion will work for me. SVRTVDude 06:38, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • The article was called "for Cumberland", not "of Cumberland", today is the 17th, not the 18th, and it was unambiguously a mere listing of external links, hence WP:CSD#A3 applies, as mentioned on my talk page. You can still find them in the edit history of the Cumberland article if you want to put them back in, but since about 80% of them were spam you might run into some opposition there. ~ trialsanderrors 08:05, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • My apologies on naming the page wrong here and putting it on the wrong date...am a day ahead I guess. I have tried to readd them just to have them taken down again, I have also tried to find middle ground with Metros232 to no avail, which is why I made a seperate page, which was nominated for speedy deletion by Metros232. I personally can find no middle ground with him, which is why I brought it to this board's attention to get other's opinions and possibly find some happy medium and get some of the links back. Rock on....SVRTVDude 10:18, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, Articles-3. DRV has no say over whether any of the links should be added back to the External links section of Cumberland, Maryland, but most of them would be totally inappropriate per the specifics of WP:EL and WP:NOT a directory generally. --Sam Blanning(talk) 11:16, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion and clarify: I didn't nominate it for speedy deletion, I nominated for deletion at an articles for deletion where someone else suggested it be speedy deleted and then it was closed as such. Metros232 13:04, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion and original removal of the links. Wikipedia is not a directory and as such these links shouldn't be present, either in their own article or on the Cumberland page itself. --Pak21 13:16, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, not only a POV fork, a POV fork formed entirely of external links - there are so many ways this is not appropriate that I don't know where to start. Guy (Help!) 20:27, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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rec.sport.pro-wrestling – Deletion endorsed – 10:29, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
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deleted despite consensus TruthCrusader 05:52, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  1. The original deleltion proposal was made in bad faith by a banned Wikipedian user named Chad Bryant, who had a history of edit warring the entry and harrassing the editors who tried to keep the entry clear and concise.
  2. There was No consensus to delete. This wasn't even close. I can understand if a consensus is 70-30 or so to then delete but this wasn't even that.
  3. The closing admin ignored the linked sources establishing the notability of the entry.

TruthCrusader 05:52, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • I count 11-8 in favour of deletion which is hardly a consensus to keep. Though it would be "no consensus" by the numbers admins look at arguments and policy/guidelines when assessing the debate. The closing admin concluded that there was only one independent source covering (rather than mentioning) the topic and that the article therefore failed WP:WEB. Given that a majority of user who commented agreed, I have no choice but to endorse the admin's closure. Eluchil404 09:59, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There have been many entries that go through AFD and are kept as "no consensus" with an even larger margin of voting. The fact is the entry listed its sources (more than one) to verify notablility which the closing admin IGNORED. Coupled with the fact the whole process of this AFD was started as a bad faith nomination by a banned user who had been trying to ruin the entry for over a year. The entry even went through a period of clean up supervised by TWO admins who concluded the entry was properly notable, cited, and sourced. TruthCrusader 11:05, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Closer's comment While the review nominator here is correct that a recent AFD was started by a banned user, that is not this AFD; the one started by the banned nominator was speedily deleted. The admin who determined that that AFD had been started by a banned user also determined that it needed discussion not messed up by that banned user. So they nominated it again and semi-protected to keep the banned user from influencing it. (I did check the two comments noted in the discussion as having been deleted, and agree that they should be disregarded.) This AFD was one of the last dozen open from January 8. That made it clear to me before I began working the close that the consensus was not obvious, and is why I spent 45 minutes tracking down everything and deciding how to close.
The sources linked in the article were described in the article as mentioning the subject. WP:WEB calls for been the subject of, which is a different level of use. Several of the opinions in this AFD referred back to opinions made in that one, or even in the first AFD. I went through and looked up all those arguments, summarizing them on this AFD so I could see them all in one place at one time. (The only one not visible now, because the result was delete, was the diff for Arthur Fonzarelli's opinion; the source was a particular post in the newsgroup.) I also made some comments on the opinions while I was closing; so I don't need to reiterate them here. This was indeed a strength of the arguments close, not a numbers close. GRBerry 14:32, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse thoughtful closure. AfD majority <> consensus; consensus is found in policy and descriptive guidelines, what we see on AfDs is interpretations of the application of consensus to a specific case. The relevant consensus here is that non-trivial independent sources are a necessary condition for having an article; no such sources were provided. The sole source asserted to be independent, faqs.org, is neither multiple not necessarily independent - many (most) faqs are maintained by participants in the relevant groups. Guy (Help!) 20:25, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion valid AfD. AfD, of course, is not just a votecount (althogh technically there was a majority to delete anyway). Simply put, the closing admin weighed the arguments correctly. There was only one real source (the FAQ at faqs.org), and as the closer notes that just isn't enough. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 20:36, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment It should be brought to the attention of Wikipedia that "TruthCrusader" does not have the best of intentions in this case, and attempted to, shall we say, "meat puppet" the AfD vote with this post to rec.sport.pro-wrestling on January 10th. While Chad Bryant is a menace to the internet in general, "TruthCrusader" (who has his own sordid history on RSPW) is just as capable of "stirring the shit", so to speak. Alexander Cain 23:37, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hello there. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it seems someone has usurped my moniker and attempted to use it in a negative manner on Wikipedia. Basically, what I'm saying is someone stole my identity and is using my name -- my REAL name, which may be verified through other independent sources by contacting me via e-mail -- and is attempting to attack TruthCrusasder on here, or at the very least make a little fun at my expense. This is unwarranted, unwanted and unnecessary and I can assure you that I will take steps on this site to have said user removed.
At any rate, I'd like to put my two cents in here by stating that I believe the article should have been kept, but edited to display and/or follow into the concerns brought by the administrator(s) who deleted the article. Granted, it's a Usenet newsgroup, but it's a fairly significant one and is not an obscure one by any means. There is numerical data to back up the number of posters, the group has been publically established on several previous occassions, and, well, just IMHO it's not as bad as it's made out to be. Granted, it has people like Chadbryant (who, btw, is probably sockpuppeting with Alexander Cain), but I can assure you that Mr. Bryant -- and even Mr. TruthCrusader, should one choose to look at it that way -- is/are by no means a viable representation of the group. I guess what I'm saying is yes, the place has kooks, but most houses have roaches, you just usually don't see them. The entry was indeed viewed by two administrators on prior occassions who came to the consensus between them that it was a legitimate article verified by outside sources and means and -- while annoying and controversial in its nature of producing the occassional nitwit -- met enough standards to stay.
And on that note -- anyone got any ideas how I can get Alexander Cain removed and/or turned over to my person? All inquiries as to the legitimacy of my identity may be answered at alexander_cain (at) yahoo (dot) com. I assure you if any trolling or otherwise mischevious behavior occurs out of that account, it is not me. I have had my identity stolen on the Internet before -- at least one occassion by Mr. Bryant -- and this is just another sad and pathetic incident of an individual who obviously mistook me for someone who gives a damn. --The Real Alexander Cain 05:29, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The comments above are typical from Chad "Chadlee" Bryant, who has worked tirelessly for YEARS to harass and ridicule me at every opportunity. I do wish someone could make him stop. Alexander Cain 05:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This has become quite inane and I do not wish to remove from the discussion point of the entry with such interruptions; however, I can assure you that *I* am the real AC, NOT that person, and anyone who wishes to e-mail me (especially now that Wikipedia has confirmed my address) may do so to confirm it. I will be requesting a check user and a ban on the person above. Why Chad chooses to engage in such immature behavior on an entry like this is unknown; however, if you check his history -- that is, the history before Chadbryant was banned for his behavior and started creating sockpuppets such as that one to get around it -- you will see this is fairly common for him. --The Real Alexander Cain 15:24, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Chad Bryant is unyielding in his abuse of Wikipedia and its resources. I do suggest that he be banned once again. This immature behavior speaks volumes about his mental health. Alexander Cain 04:17, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Skulltag – No credible reasons advanced for overturning AfD and previous review, debate is becoming surreal. – 21:46, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
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Premature deletion despite posted info saying article was going to be updated in minutes.Catman847 04:59, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I had this posted a mere 3 minutes before it was proposed for deletion. Doesn't it seem that most normal people wouldn't be wanting to delete an article after it was only on for 3 minutes? It seems like the person proposing the deletion was waiting for this to pop-up so they could have it deleted. Also, the Keep-Delete vote was ignored (5-3 in favor of keeping).

    • I did, and i found something very interesting in it. You might want to read this.
Note that some Wikipedians create articles in multiple saves, so try to avoid deleting a page too soon after its initial creation.
    • That was in the article, 2nd paragraph. also, MY article said that it was going to be updates soon, and you also ran right through that too. so the article's fate is still up for grabs. Catman847 05:14, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Template:WoS gameNo consensus closure endorsed – 10:31, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
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I realize it's taken me a bit to bring this to DRV, but I don't think it's too late. This template was closed as "no consensus". However, I believe that many who spoke in the discussion failed to understand the nature of our copyright policy. We are deleting YouTube links left and right because they might have a copyvio, whereas, this site nearly always has proven copyvios of downloadable Nintendo games: see [104], which is linked from our Bubble Bobble article. I added this link at the end of the discussion, but no one had time to look on my argument before it was closed. Patstuarttalk|edits 04:49, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Statement from closing admin: My decision in this case was slightly more complex than simply viewing a mix of delete and keep votes, and then labelling it "no consensus." Patstuart made a good point when he cited User:Dmcdevit's essay/project on the deletion of all WP:EL non-compliant YouTube links. I agree with both Dmcdevit and Patstuart on this issue. However, the implementation of Dmcdevit's initiative has been marked with controversy, and has been occasionally characterized as unilateral in nature. I felt that even though the template should be deleted, there was no consensus in the TfD debate itself, especially given that the best argument raised in favor of deletion has been judged controversial at best by the community at large. Regardless of my personal opinions on the template, I felt that it was not within my latitude to close the debate as delete. If the template in question had been an overt violation of policy, I would have invoked WP:IAR against consensus in order to benefit the encyclopedia, but in this case I did not feel the template in question fell within those bounds. RyanGerbil10(Упражнение В!) 07:13, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Bubble Bobble on the ZX Spectrum was published by Firebird Software, who are owned by British Telecom. World of Spectrum has explicit permission from British Telecom to distribute their material: see http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showwrap.cgi?permit=houses/BritishTelecom.pmt (you'll have to copy and paste the link to bypass the anti deep-linking script). While there is an issue as to whether BT were within the rights of their licensing agreement to grant that permission, I think this shows that the issue isn't as simple as is being made out. Yes, a lot of the material on WoS is formally a copyright violation, but I'm not convinced that means we should delete the entire template, which does have legitimate uses. (Disclaimer: I am one of the maintainers of World of Spectrum). --Pak21 07:29, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure I understood the copyright notice. Sounded more to me like he was saying that BT had nothing to do with this software but to "exploit it", and that they're "no longer involved". But I concede I could be misreading the text. Patstuarttalk|edits 01:26, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Endorse and keep: While I agree with Pak21 that the case for Bubble Bobble for the ZX Spectrum is not a clear cut, along with a great many other titles, I removed the link a week ago when the issue was raised - just to be on the safe side. This is what should be done for any links which editors believes are copyvios, whether they are templated or not. The people responsible for the site to which the template links, do a great job in obtaining permissions, and it's incorrect to asume that a violation is in effect just because it is possible to download a particular game from WoS. Permissions have been granted from many individuals and companies (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/permits/). BTW: Bubble Bobble is not Nintendo property, but Taito. --Frodet 10:55, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse no consensus close This was within reasonable range of admin discretion, given the discussion. It is not transparently obvious that any given link is necessarily a violation, so I can't see a policy requiring deletion of the template. GRBerry 14:37, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Lil' Sonic – Deletion endorsed – 10:39, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
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The article was deleted as CSD A7, but its creator wishes to dispute the deletion so I'm listing this on his behalf. He wrote on my talk page [105]:

I understand that you needed to know why he is notable, but to clear things up, I am Lil' Sonic. Many rappers ask why me, as the youngest producer who has been given good reviews by signed musicians like Jin and Jojo didn't have a Wiki telling all about me, how young I started etc.. so skeptics would know how long I have been performing etc.. In fact a fan was the one who informed me that the page was deleted.. and that they thought their computer had a problem or something, then I got your message.. Can this please be reversed? I notably was the youngest and currently the youngest hip-hop producer in New England. That has to count as something, also because I make music that is compared to the best of the best, not to be bigheaded but i'm told this on countless occasion, please review my request and take your time to decide on any action. Thanks.

Google hits for "Lil' Sonic": [106] Flyingtoaster1337 02:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse deletion 60 unique Google hits isn't anything special (I have 4 times that), and stories about being asked why you don't have "a wiki" are not the same as reliable sources. Finally, a self-nom generally suggests WP:COI issues. You might want to have a look at our guidelines for musicians. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 02:39, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn, that's not even close to an A7, looking at the google cache for the article. I can't say I like COI, though. -Amarkov blahedits 02:40, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and list the version deleted by User:Steel359. (The two newer versions are just attempts by someone who doesn't understand our process arcana to open this deletion review.) I doubt it will survive AFD absent the production of independent and reliable published sources, but I am aware that 1) I don't participate in music AFDs and 2) WP:MUSIC is a lot more inclusionist than I am. GRBerry 03:47, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and list: "Sonic has produced numerous hit singles for various music megastars" (from Google's cached version) is an assertion of notability. --Pak21 07:38, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, even if it weren't an A7 (which I believe it is, since unsubstantiated claims to notability are of little merit), it would fail WP:AUTO and therefore almost certainly WP:NPOV, also by the looks of it WP:N/WP:MUSIC, WP:V and so on. Come back when the second album goes platinum. Guy (Help!) 20:32, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn, not an A7. Period. --badlydrawnjeff talk 21:53, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • So lying claims of notability are not speedyable? User:Zoe|(talk) 22:51, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Articles that assert notability are not speedyable under A7. Some "lying claims," as you put it, may fall under a different banner, but not A7. --badlydrawnjeff talk 23:04, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Hoaxes are explicitly not speedyable. See Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#Non-criteria, second bullet. That is as close as I see the policy getting to discussing false claims to notability. WP:CSD#A7 is for an article "that does not assert the importance or significance of its subject. If the assertion is controversial or there has been a previous AfD, the article should be nominated for AfD instead." Belief that a claim is a lie indicates that the claim is controversial, and CSD#A7 then says to take it to AFD. Now, WP:IAR might be applied in some cases, CSD#A7 was the offered reason for deleting this article. GRBerry 23:15, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • It was easier for me to hit "CSD A7" using my CSD js script (a modified version of this) than to type out my actual reasoning. Unhelpful? Probably. Do I care? Not really. -- Steel 01:20, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • It's good to know you don't care about clarity or accuracy when deleting articles. Absolutely incredible. --badlydrawnjeff talk 16:24, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
            • Oh please. I have always read A7 as no credible claim to notability (else we would be unable to delete "John Doe is widely accounted the smartest and best-looking man in the world" type nonsense). If you genuinely believe this subject is notable then you have my blessing (and I'm guessing the others here as well) to go out and write a neutral article on him based on numerous credible sources. Are you confident that could be done here? Becauise there are three hurdles to overcome: one is that it appears nobody but the creator actually cares; another is that no credible sources were presented in the article; and three, it's a vanity page. If you set out to write an article with decent sources then you would have fixed all three problems. Otherwise we take this at face value, which is a piece of fluff created by an enthusiastic kid, to be kindly but firmly deleted, and move on. Guy (Help!) 19:15, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
              • I'm certainly not confident that a neutral article can be written here. On the other hand, I'm not (quite) confident that a neutral article can't be written either, and it's very much the latter rather than the former which I think we should be using as a criteria for speedy deletion. Cheers --Pak21 19:33, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
              • There's "credible" and then there's "nonsensical." Your example is nonsensical, and that would be a worthwhile speedy under nonsense. Then there's this, which wasn't nonsensical or patently incredible. I don't know if the subject is notable or not - I do know that the article asserted that the subject was notable, and that disqualifies it from an A7. --badlydrawnjeff talk 20:10, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Some 16 year old rapper named "Lil' Sonic" writes an article on himself. "Sonic claims he is waiting for a chance to be heard by major labels, but he won't use that to hold back on doing what he loves best, and that is making good music". Oh, please. -- Steel 01:01, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, and if A7 doesn't fly, then the claims are ludicrous enough to be patent nonsense. Proto:: 10:08, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. An article on a 16-year old who claims to have "produced numerous hit singles for various music megastars", with no actual sources or anything to substantiate these claims. Plus a lot of vanity and self-promotion. I don't think so. WarpstarRider 10:35, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse, obvious self-promotion, valid A7, crystal ball. >Radiant< 16:13, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. "These criteria are worded narrowly, and generally so phrased that, in most cases, reasonable editors will agree what does or does not fall under a given criterion". The question is, do transparently false claims "assert the importance or significance of its subject". Not to me they don't, and reasonable editors are agreeing that they don't. Angus McLellan (Talk) 23:14, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • The problem is that they are not "transparently false". Sounding unlikely does not make it transparently false. -Amarkov blahedits 00:03, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • This could turn into pantomime: "Oh yes they are". I'll stick with transparently false; the most cursory research distinguishes the two. The assumption that valid articles are speedily deleted is difficult to confirm without sysop rights, but I'm more than willing to concede that they are as I've seen it happen. How, for example, did La soupe aux choux get speedied? This article, however, wasn't one of them. The assertions of importance or significance were and are false. Transparently so to me, but not to you. I don't really care if an article on a schoolboy who cuts mix tapes gets deleted speedily, gets deleted after a {{prod}}, or gets deleted at AfD. It's going to get deleted, and the least fuss and bother is best. Now that we're here, Jeff is going to demonstrate his failure to grasp the first of the five pillars, various process wonks are going to argue that Wikipedia really is a bureaucracy, and that process is not only important, it's sacred. In the end the article will remain deleted. It would be nice if we could all agree that bringing hopeless procedural cases to DRV is a waste of everyone's time and energy, and save it for deserving articles, or improving the encyclopedia. How naive is that? Angus McLellan (Talk) 00:23, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • Oh, am I? Nope, looking at the first pillar again, I get that one fine. Still. This wasn't an A7, and DRV is about process. You don't like it? Start trying to change A7 or DRV. It seems like you're the one who fails to grasp the basics, not me. --badlydrawnjeff talk 01:40, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • I disagree - no surprise - this article had no place in an encyclopedia. Having read the actual text, the choice of CSDs clearly does include G11. The prod will have had its five days before this DRV is up. Everything that's been done is perfectly fine by me and entirely in line with the metarules. There's no need to waste electrons on an AfD for a hopeless case of vanispam. Angus McLellan (Talk) 22:31, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn, list at Afd Vexingly, obviously dubious content is not speedy deletable under current CSD criteria if the article makes even a slight unsourced claim to notability. I look forward to the afd of his royal highness Lil' Sonic. (From his website: "As humble as they come, [Lil' Sonic] chose not to reveal his royal status to anyone once in America, choosing rather to humbly work and build relationships in the music industry solely on the merits of his talent and not on his royal status." Bwithh 02:09, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • OK. I restored the history. Perhaps someone could point out to me what text in which revision equates to what a rational person with their critical faculties intact would accept as a claim of notability? Guy (Help!) 21:42, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • ...which is functionally equivalent to "John Doe is a famous blah" - without even a hint of a source, and in the case of someone sixteen years old, it fails the O RLY? test. Do you really think that when a sixteen-year-old creates an article saying how famous he is, we should allow that as an assertion of notability? Really? A credible assertion of notability would be signed to a label or something like that, not "I am famous". Guy (Help!) 12:12, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well, no, it isn't, but we're running around in circles here. Do I really think a 16 year old rapper has the ability to have produced various stars along the east coast? Yes, I do think so. It's not out of the realm of possibility. --badlydrawnjeff talk 14:25, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak overturn and list, reads somewhat like an advertisement (especially the "Biography" and "Hear his music" section breaks), and is close to G11. However, notability is indeed dubious (the most I can find is "750 compositions" - which doesn't cut it if none are released - and one of his songs being played on a local radio station, which isn't hard, really), and AFD may be a better venue to discuss it. --Coredesat 02:24, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and list on AFD. I think Jeff's take on this is right: It looks like it should be deleted, but I don't think it's speedyable, and if people want to be able to speedy things that don't meet WP:CSD, they should revise the damn policy page first. -Hit bull, win steak(Moo!) 04:46, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • this should not have come here the proper action when someone wants to contest a Speedy is to list for AfD. Why was it done otherwise? WP:CSD: "When there is reasonable doubt whether a page does, [fall under a given criterion] discussion is recommended," it wasn't speediable if so many of us are contesting it. I've commented on this on the CSD talk p. also. DGG 23:12, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

, discussion is recommended, using one of the other methods

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Girlfriend (Avril Lavigne song) – Article recreated with references – 01:21, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
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Article was speedy deleted under CSD A7. The criteria used to justify deletion was inappropriate for the article in question - also the article documented the forthcoming release of what is in my opinion a notable single (first in three years) by a notable artist. I asked the deleting admin for his reasoning behind the deletion but have received no reply as of yet. Kurt Shaped Box 22:14, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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G.ho.st – Deletion endorsed – 08:49, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
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new text as follows TareqM 19:07, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

:G.ho.st, prounounced ghost, is an online operating system that provides users with a Virtual Computer space. Ghost is an acronym for Global Hosted Operating SysTem which captures the key idea that the operating system is hosted in a data center and available globaly through any browser, in contrast with traditional operating systems which are installed locally on a specific computer.
The main benefit is complete portability of the operating system - a user can access their desktop, applications and date from any computer with a browser and Internet connection. Another benefit is collaboration - given that everything is online there are increased opportunities for synchronous communication, streaming information, sharing data, applications or even entire desktops.
Technology
G.ho.st uses Java and the Spring Framework on the server side and OpenLaszlo compiled into Flash (and in the future DHTML) on the browser (client side).
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GamerWiki – Endorse Deletion. No consensus to overturn deletion. – 17:48, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
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Now a substantial size (significantly larger than Encyclopedia Gamia) with mentions in The Guardian (UK) and the Accenture Digital Forum in addition to GameCentral on UK teletext and within Retro Gamer (UK magazine). Tim 17:52, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse deletion for now, as a "mention" in The Guardian isn't the sort of susbtantial coverage that passes WP:WEB (and consequently presents verifiable information on which to base an article). We're looking for primary-subject articles here, folks, not mentions. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 18:19, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion - a passing mention in the Technology section of The Grauniad of a Wiki containing 750 articles is not major press coverage in a Journal of Record; the article also has no reliable sources to demonstrate notability. (aeropagitica) 23:36, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • GamerWiki does not have "750 articles", as you would see if you were to visit it. I also should clarify what I mean by a "mention" - it was part of a review of videogaming information sites, and as well as the URL had a small writeup on the purpose of the site. You have also ignored the other sources I stated above, being two videogaming magazines in the UK. If deletion stands, then I propose that the vast majority of the List of Wikis are also deleted. Tim 08:40, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • GamerWiki was recently mentioned (Dec 2006) in an Accenture "Digital Forum" newsletter as a notable videogame information source. -- Tyagi 21:33, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. Nothing rising above the level of trivial passing mentions, as yet. Guy (Help!) 11:02, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • GamerWiki has had a consistent presence in the List of Largest Wikis since the second half of 2006. Notable fact: It is the largest, dedicated, videogame wiki. At the time of writing, it is the 108th largest wiki. -- Tyagi 21:14, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Um... why is being the 108th largest wiki notable? I would estimate that the highest reasonable estimate for number of wikis is a couple hundred thousand. And then you have to realize that 99% of those wikis will be tiny, bad, or otherwise unknown. -Amark moo! 01:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Around 50% of the rest of the top 100 wiki are Wikimedia Foundation projects. As a dedicated videogame wiki, unrelated to the Wikimedia Foundation, GamerWiki could be notable due to its size. -- Tyagi 05:19, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Bud Delp – Non-copyvio versions restored – 18:10, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
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National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Horse trainer - I'm going from memory as it was a few days ago but I believe this article had a copyright violation notice and someone must have deleted it without seeing that I had come along afterward and edited it properly and removed the copyright violation tag. Please undelete this and I will double check it to ensure it meets proper standards. Thanx. Handicapper 14:07, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have restored the re-write. As the template says, you have to leave the copyvio notice in place and start the re-write at the temporary subpage or elsewhere, so that the copyright infringement is properly deleted from the page history. —Centrxtalk • 14:29, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Able and Baker – Deletion endorsed, replaced with a redirect to Monkeys in space – 05:31, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
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Deletion discussions: Nominations 1 2 3 4 Review 1
Last nomination: 5

This is a pre-emptive listing on deletion review, as I anticipate that at least one adminstrator who disagrees.
brenneman 03:39, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Overturn. Appears to meet WP:WEB per Phil's reasoning. --badlydrawnjeff talk 03:44, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Aye, that's the crux of this: Is Phil's interpretation "solid" enough to overturn the more general consensus on the issue of syndication? I have personally tried on more occasions than I care to count to get the issue made clear, but never with any success. Part of the reason I choose to close this is my involvment, as I can say with some authority that there is no consensus that syndication is sufficient. - brenneman 03:49, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Well, if 10 people say "not notable," and then one comes along and says "actually, yes it is, based on the widely accepted guidelines," it should be pretty apparent which side is in the right. If syndication isn't sufficient, then consensus needs to be built at WP:WEB for such a change. --badlydrawnjeff talk 03:52, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • I tried before and failed. My personal feeling is that there does exist space for a definition of "notable" that included something like syndication, but at present it's very poorly defined and we end up falling back on "because I say so" style arguments. These are by definition unverifiable and prone to creep. If a well-supported consensus can be built that clearly supports the inclusion of syndicates, I'll restore this page in a heartbeat. Not one of those sloth heart beats, either, the shrew-like "as fast as the laws of physics allow me to push the button" heart beat. - brenneman 04:06, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn. Aaron should not have closed this, having been heavily involved with the third AfD. However, even without his involvement, serious problems exist with this AfD. First, no new evidence was presented in this AfD that was not considered by previous AfDs. Second, the opinions of the previous AfD were discounted - very few of the 20+ keep votes from the previous AfD participated this time, and their previous opinions and arguments were thus wholly discounted. Beyond that, this AfD is a prime example of the treatment of AfD as a court of infinite appeals where articles can be put up again and again until enough people aren't looking that the desired result is achieved. Meanwhile, great pains have been taken to make it as difficult as possible to undelete articles, including the declaration that DRV is not the exact sort of court of infinite appeals that AfD demonstrably is. Complicating this is an abuse of the WP:RS guideline to demand that articles written from primary sources be deleted – something that is not supported by any policy, and has nothing whatsoever to do with reliability. Among the arguments made in the AfD are that the webcomic cannot serve as a source for describing characters and events in the webcomic – a claim that is obviously and transparently not supported by either policy or standard practice in fictional topics. Similar arguments with little relationship to Wikipedia's standard and best practices included the claim that the publisher of Able and Baker, Dayfree Press, may be notable, but not everything they publish is (a claim likened to the claim that not every game published by Nintendo is notable, which is flatly untrue). Finally, the AfD was plagued by people with very little understanding of the subject making judgments they were unqualified to make. Despite the claim that AfD is not a vote, these claims were seemingly given equal weight by a clearly biased administrator to the claims of verifiable experts on the subject. Although Wikipedia does not favor experts, that does not and has never meant that their views are put on an equal level with people who neither understand the subject they are making editorial judgments about nor the basic Wikipedia policies surrounding the debate. A final note of grave concern to me - Aaron has used his deletion closure as a declaration that this forms an answer to a long-standing question regarding webcomics and notability - an argument he has long been involved in. It is an egregious abuse of his power to close AfDs to step into an AfD on a topic he has been personally involved in in the past and use the AfD as an occasion to declare his views policy. Phil Sandifer 04:53, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I'll wear the "heavily involved in third afd" comment, and accept a trout-slapping if the peanut gallery thinks it warranted. I choose to close this afd despite that because I have been actively involved in attempting to create a consensus on the guideline, and in fact am the person who last raised syndication on talk:web. There isn't consensus there, and I know it better than most. - brenneman 05:17, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Honestly, I don't think the "court of infinite appeals" rant is all that justified in regards to this case. After AfD #3, over a year passed before we saw #4 and #5, and we have seen that consensus can change over such a period of time. (In particular, the much higher demand for reliable third-party sources in recent months) It's not like we've been seeing this pop up at AfD every month or so, like certain other issues. WarpstarRider 05:53, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. Consensus was pretty clear. The only argument which would actually make sense for overturning seems to be "you aren't qualified to express your opinion", which is absurd. For the rest, you're simply arguing against what people said, which is inappropriate. This isn't an extension of the AfD. -Amarkov blahedits 04:57, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • No - everyone is, of course, welcome to express their opinions on an AfD. And it is the job of the closing admin to disregard opinions that are ill-informed, inconsistent with existing practice, or just plain moronic. This has nothing to do with some notion of free speech, but on the other hand nothing does and nothing should oblige us to count transparently wrong opinions (like that not every game by Nintendo is notable) as equivalent to those of qualified experts. Phil Sandifer 05:05, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Part of the idea of Wikipedia is that experts don't get to overrule everyone else by saying they are experts. If you'd like that to happen, go edit Citizendium. -Amarkov blahedits 05:07, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • Yes, but that's not what I'm saying. What I am saying is that experts ought be taken seriously, and their views should not be treated as equivalent to the views of people who show a clear failure to grasp Wikipedia policy or the subject matter. That doesn't mean "expert vote = 10 non-expert votes" or "expert automatically wins all debates." It means a careful and prudent closure of an AfD would give some greater weight to the opinions of an expert and some lesser weight to opinions that do not mesh with existing policy and practice. Phil Sandifer 13:52, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • Even if you ignore the experts, if we're going to baseit off of consensus, consensus is that WP:WEB is widely accepted as the prevaling guideline for webcomics. Thus, if most of the delete voters are citing non-notability, usually based around WP:WEB, and someone comes around and notes how completely incorrect that argument is, how much weight should each side be given? If 10 people say a squirrel isn't fuzzy, but I point out all the hair on a squirrel, do we say that "even though it's obvious the squirrel has hair, it's not fuzzy?" --badlydrawnjeff talk 13:56, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and relist per Phil and Jeff. --Gwern (contribs) 05:22 16 January 2007 (GMT)
  • Endorse closure and Speedy close. This has been through 3 votes in the past week, all with the same result, so clearly consensus exists. If Phil (or anyone) thinks they can create a verifiable article based on reliable independent sources, he can do so in userspace and we can vote again based on that. Until that happens, the issue needs to rest. A new vote every few days wastes everyone's time and does not help us build an encyclopedia. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 05:37, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure, clear consensus to delete. WarpstarRider 05:53, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse - clear consensus. As with GNAA, it's time to move on with life. --BigDT 06:01, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure, while this matter arguably should have been handled by a different person then the one who did, a different decision could not realistically have been made by anyone else. WP:NOT a bureaucracy, and a potential misstep by the closing admin isn't a reason to overturn a decision obviously in line with the AfD's overwhelming consensus. Seraphimblade 07:45, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure. --Slgrandson (page - messages - contribs) 07:48, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure. Even after the presentation of the syndication on Dayfree Press argument, there was still a consensus that the webcomic did not meet WP:WEB notability guidelines. This article has received far more attention than the average AFD candidate. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:50, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure, WP:WEB/WP:RS; bogdan 09:22, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure, put this to rest. If AFD is not a court of infinite appeals, neither is DRV. >Radiant< 10:11, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • GNAA comparisons belie the fact that this AfD contained some of the worst arguments for keeping I've seen in a long time, including GNAA. I might accept "you don't know what you're talking about" (Phil Sandifer's argument, abridged) if the AfD was on some obscure theory of quantum nuclear physics, but this is a webcomic. That is, a story publicly available on the Internet, told in pictures, a format originally designed for people who hadn't yet mastered reading, before it gained mainstream popularity (or possibly before the education system became so dumbed down people started leaving at 18 unable to read, write and add up, but that's a theory for another time). And this is supposed to be a subject that requires some sort of expert knowledge in order to judge an article's worthiness? Where can I get a PhD in Webcomic Appreciation so I can take part in high-powered discussions over whether an article with no reliable sources can be deleted? Does Jason Gastrich's university do one? Can I get life credit for the number of times I've reread Scary Go Round? Ridiculous. AfD properly closed and no new information presented. Endorse deletion. I read a total of 17-20 webcomics, incidentally, depending on whether newspaper-syndicated comics on the Internet count, so I'm not snobbish about them. It just makes me more appreciative of the fact that there is nothing to write about most of them except that they exist, plus the requisite fancruft. --Sam Blanning(talk) 11:06, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse. This is difficult because I respect Phil's expertise in this subject area, but the AfD was pretty much unequivocal in deciding that no reliable independent sources have been provided on which to base an article. Of course we can use the originators as a source for minor details, but without a decent body of independent critical review how can we have an article without violating core policy? It is telling that even after five AfDs, a couple of deletions and two deletion reviews, not one single independent source was cited in the article. 100% of the references were back to the originator's website. Ultimately, if this has not been the primary subject of non-trivial coverage in reliable sources independent of its creators, it fails WP:N, which is mainly an expression of the likelihood of being able to satisfy and verify the core policies of WP:NPOV, WP:V and WP:NOR. No independent sources = no article. We do this every day, dozens if not hundreds of times. The fact that we like and respect Phil does not mean we can do an end-run around policy for him; the article can, however, be re-created as soon as suitable references are provided. Guy (Help!) 11:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure per Sam Blanning and JzG. Angus McLellan (Talk) 14:02, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure the consensus was clear even after the last edits to the article and ignoring those who opined previously without updating their opinion. I also endorse trout slap for the closing admin; we could have had less drama had this been left to an uninvolved admin. And there has been plenty of AFD backlog this weekend needing closures. GRBerry 14:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse per JzG. - Francis Tyers · 16:19, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse, Phil Sandifer's claims that he is the final arbiter of what is or is not notable in the world of webcomics is not supported by policy or consensus. User:Zoe|(talk) 16:29, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure, clear consensus for reputable third-party sources over original research and personal point of view. -- Dragonfiend 17:56, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • relistI do not think there was consensus, & I think it was obvious from the debate that there was no consensus. There were several main topics that need further discussion:
  1. Whether the publisher alone is sufficient to make a webcomic notable?
  2. If not, are special standards needed?
  3. Can sources other than the usual RS be considered as Reliable for topics such as this.DGG 18:27, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and do not relist, just keep. The current state of affairs with webcomics throws out too many comics that are significant. (at 600+ episodes that's significant right there) The guidelines need to be broadened and the requirement for secondary sources outside of the syndicator dumped or softened. Over in the music arena, a band gets transferrable notability if its work is on a major label. Not as much notability as the label itself, but if the label is major enough, every band is notable enough to warrant an article. The same principle should apply here, Dayfree Press is major enough (we have an academic telling us so) to warrant retention of every comic it hosts. Why? Dayfree Press editors are well respected enough in the webcomics world to make notable judgements about what is and isn't notable. IF WP had only room for 10,000 articles, that might be different, but the notabily standards in this area need to be relaxed enough to allow this comic to pass, since WP has room for many more than that, and since it has room for many more articles in other areas (that's not a "they need to go" nor is it a "but they get to stay, no fair" it's an example of where notability standards are at, and rightly so, for other topic areas) Nota bene, I think Aaron closed this and then DRV'ed it right away for a good reason, to help drive critical thought here, his DRV's have the virtue of being thorough presentations of the relevant material and (dare I say it) of attracting wider audiences. ++Lar: t/c 18:54, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • If there were even primary sources, it might be acceptable, but there aren't. There is just the thing itself. Part of the idea of WP:NOR is that you can't cite what you're saying to the thing you are talking about; you have to cite it to a source. -Amarkov blahedits 20:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • No, that's not what NOR is, and it never has been what NOR is. I quote from NOR: "An article or section of an article that relies on a primary source should (1) only make descriptive claims, the accuracy of which is easily verifiable by any reasonable, educated person without specialist knowledge, and (2) make no analytic, synthetic, interpretive, explanatory, or evaluative claims. Contributors drawing on entirely primary sources should be careful to comply with both conditions." Phil Sandifer 21:05, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    600 episodes isn't significant, it's merely long. Achieving notability in the arts generally requires talent and/or luck (usually a combination of the two), which eventually is rewarded by the attention of reliable sources. Making 600 webcomics just requires persistence. You might even go so far as to say that a comic that's been around for 600 episodes and hasn't attracted any attention that we can cite as a source is probably less likely to be notable than one that's been around for less time. You can't exactly say that it's too new and fresh to have gotten the attention it deserves.
    As for the claim that comics carried by Dayfree Press are automatically notable, I might be willing to consider that, except that Dayfree Press tells me nothing about what makes it so notable, and from the recent AfDs I only managed to get that its editor is "one of the 25 big names in webcomics in 2004" (they managed to find 24 others?) by Comixpedia, a special interest webzine not notable enough for an article here as of last November, and that's it. On the evidence available to me currently, Dayfree Press itself might not survive an AfD. Open to correction. --Sam Blanning(talk) 23:16, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    You were sounding reasonable until you made the suggestion that there were fewer than 25 important figures in webcomics. Phil Sandifer 23:39, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Probably, since I was being sardonic. When I said I was "open to correction" I kind of meant wanting to be corrected about the bit about Dayfree Press not having a claim to notability despite being relied upon as the basis for the notability of this comic, not the bit where I was deliberately being mean. --Sam Blanning(talk) 11:24, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion There is a clear consensus to delete, and no reason in policy to do otherwise. The arguments being made here and basically the same being made on the AfD and they were rejected there. I can see no pressing reason to overturn the consensus to delete.--Docg 21:41, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. The closing admin is supposed to determine whether there was a rough consensus, not to decide whether he personally approves of the consensus. No evidence of sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry or piling on. Participants for the most part gave coherent explanations of their reasons. Most of those explanations give me the impression that the participants had, in fact, reviewed the article and were not voting on ideology. Dpbsmith (talk) 00:03, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion - As per above, AFD 4 and AFD 5 easily shows a consensus to delete. As much as I respect expert opinion on matters of content, I do not respect claims such as "everything published is notable", which seems to be Sandifer's case here. Lar compares the Dayfree Press to a major record label, this is totally incorrect. Even an indie label such as Rough Trade gets hundreds more links and news sources for its artists than anything Dayfree can come up with for its entire portfolio. - hahnchen 00:58, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse, we have secondary notability criteria to ensure completeness in areas that may not have sources immediately available, but should. They don't override the fundamental need for reliable secondary sources. We can't build a good article on pure descriptive claims and primary sources; plot summary doesn't make an article on its own. This article has had years for sources to turn up; until someone can supply some (phil sandlifer's opinion doesn't count) this article should stay deleted. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 01:09, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse per JzG and Doc. Also, the interpretation of guidelines is determined by consensus. Like policies they are ultimately descriptive rather than perscriptive. Eluchil404 14:49, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Policies(Consensus) trump Guidelines(WP:WEB). We don't follow that, the policies lose all meaning and we have chaos. Just H 22:08, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. I hereby announce I am an expert in Peanuts, because I read it, so am the only authority on whether an article on Charlie Brown's shoes should be kept. What? It's the same logic. Proto:: 10:13, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Che-Lives – Deletion endorsed – 17:44, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
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regular editors were unavailable, page notable as per google rank and BBC articles on che referencing the forum as proof of his popularity [[User:Che y Marijuana|Che y Marijuana]] 00:38, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Endorse deletion, entirely unambiguous; if you had sources, they were not in the article. -Amarkov blahedits 01:20, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion, valid AfD, no new information presented. If there are sources either the article must be recreated with them, or they should be cited here, and from the nomination they sound like passing mentions to me, which are not sufficient. --Sam Blanning(talk) 10:47, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion as per process - article unsourced and no notability asserted as per WP:WEB. (aeropagitica) 23:43, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn over 9000 members, listed second in google searches for Che, 3rd in google searches for Che Guevara, has been around over 7 years as a thriving radical leftist community. The radical left may be a niche, but amongst the radical left, che-lives is the largest community. That makes it notable, passing mentions or not. If there's an article on the Maoist Internationalist Movement, a "party" that exists solely on the internet and has an article attacking Che-Lives, there should be an article on Che-Lives.--[[User:Che y Marijuana|Che y Marijuana]] 19:23, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment What we are looking for is published, reliable sources independent of the forum/organization/its owners/its publishers that are primarily about this forum. (Mentioning in passing or using as a source themselves is not enough.) Wikipedia is an an encyclopedia, so it is a tertiary source covering topics of significance, not a publisher of original research. As such, we can't rely solely on primary sources, we need secondary sources. They need to be published so that our readers can verify what we say. Some of them need to be independent so that we can adhere to the policy requiring a neutral point of view. I see from your contribution history that you are a long standing contributor that wasn't active much in the second half of 2006. Following the Wikimania conference this summer, there has been a major culture shift on the importance of sourcing. Levels of sourcing previously thought to be good enough to keep and expect the article to get better some day are now insufficient to prevent the deletion of articles.
    Arguments based on the presence of another article carry no weight; see Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability for the long explanation of why. Similarly, arguments based on the absence of another article carry little weight - unless it can also be shown when and why that article was deleted, we may just never have had that article or the topic may be covered at a different title.
    As to the timing, the AFD shows evidence that concerns were raised on the article and talk page prior to the AFD; the deleted history shows that it was over a month prior. GRBerry 04:38, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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MKULTRA Pop Culture – Cruftmungous fork is justly deleted, debate can continue on the parent article – 21:18, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
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improper use of AfD Wyatt Riot 00:41, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Jon Roland – Endorsed by multiple people, patient explanations to the subject-and-author can be continued on his user talk page. – 21:17, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
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Jon Roland (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|AfD)

The article was resubmitted with different content to satisfy the established requirements for notability. The original article was created by someone else as a stub, apparently based on the subject being a candidate for public office in the upcoming 2006 election. Although one can understand that after the subject has been a candidate and not won his level of notability might cease to qualify him for inclusion, there are many other notability criteria the subject does satisfy, which can be easily verified by a web search. For example, he has been the subject of a chapter of a book written by a prominent journalist, Jonathan Karl, then a reporter for the New York Post, later a correspondent for CNN, and currently a frequent on-air reporter for ABC News.

Furthermore, the subject has a prominence based on his work as editor of the digital editions of most of the more important works of constitutional history, law, and government, including most of the works of the Founders, the works they read and cited, and commentaries by their contemporaries. These online editions are not mere copies of work done by others. They are authoritative scholarly edits (some in progress) that have caused others to cite those versions as authoritative, and in some cases, unique. Most of the other copies online of these works began as copies of his work, often without attribution. That work has led to the site being linked to by many other sites, which has put the site at or near the top of search engines, and led to recognition as a leading constitutional scholar, evidence by being invited to write articles for encyclopedias, speak to conferences, and submit articles to various journals.

It is suggested that on future deletion reviews, the subject be contacted and afforded an opportunity to respond to arguments for deletion. That was easily done for the subject here discussed, and was not done. The reviewers should also take the time to do a search on the name, which would have yielded abundant material to support notability, or to follow the links provided by the contributors, which often provide justification by reference that are not repeated in the body of the article, in an effort to keep the article concise. Jon Roland 16:32, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I protest the statement that I have had ample opportunity to provide multiple reliable sources for "notability". I don't keep scapbooks of such things. I selected one that came to mind, and was by someone the administrators are likely to have seen on television. I don't have long periods of time to add content in response to such demands, but must find time between other projects. Yet you consider a few hours since I added that content as "ample opportunity"? I can and will add additional sources when I find them, but that could take several days or weeks. Further, nowhere did I suggest that living persons are more notable than dead ones. I never discussed anything like that anywhere. My scholarly work is all about bringing to the public the works of notable persons, most of whom have been dead for centuries. I am loathe to assert my own "notability", preferring to let my work speak for itself, but when someone creates the article as a stub, and many people discover it and ask for content, then they tell me it has been deleted, I feel a need to set the historical record straight. It is not about "Jon Roland" but his work and the work of others in the Constitution Society. Unfortunately, the tendency of too many people to argue from authority rather than considering work on its own merits is difficult to escape. Dismissing the worker disrespects the work, in this environment. I also object to the summary deletion of the article on the Constitution Society, which it appears is somehow related to this action by the administators. The Constitution Society is a real organization with real members and real activities, the evidence of which is online for anyone to examine. More people read its materials than read all the textbooks in all the lawschools, and its influence is real. That has to count for something unless there is an ideological agenda at work here. Jon Roland 01:50, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The "ideological agenda" is that articles must be about subjects which are verifiable and notable, and all content in them should be verified by reliable sources. If you can bring quite a few sources to bear in several weeks, then recreate the article, with those sources cited, in several weeks, and it will likely do just fine! You may want to note, however, that we do offer some cautions for those writing articles about oneself or a subject very close to oneself-it's very difficult to remain neutral in such a situation. Seraphimblade 01:55, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Okay. With some interaction of this kind I may get a sense of the standards you are applying as you understand them, something that does not really come across by merely reading your guidance documents. For example, you now seem to say that "all" content must be verified by those "reliable sources". That goes well beyond your guide documents, which only seem to require validation of notability by a third party, not all content in the article. That is a very severe requirement. I don't know many scholars who could get affidavits that they did all the work of editing a historical writing, much less of all the other things they do of importance. They don't always have witnesses. They just do the work, publish it, and readers review their work and decide for themselves how well it was done. It is not as though there is anyone else who is suspected of doing the work. And what is the validation that the work was done according to scholarly standards? Cites in other works, or by other sites, with favorable comments, of course, but much work of that kind can be available for years before anyone comments on it, other than to make use of it for his own work. There are fashions in history that lead its practitioners to exhibit herd behavior and focus on hot topics to the neglect of those that others might consider more important in the longer term. But being out of fashion does not invalidate the merit of the work. That should always be evaluated on its own merits, not on who does it, or or what others say about it.
As for verification, what is so difficult about just going online and reading it? It might be more fun to try to find it on a library shelf, but in the age of the Internet online publication is displacing paper publication, which is no longer the sole standard for credibility. Yes, I still write articles for print publications, mainly because I get paid for it, but frankly I almost never read the printed editions. I read the copies online. And I suspect, so do increasing numbers of others.

One more point: If it is your intent to allow deficiencies to be corrected (even if you don't take the time to notify the submitter of such deficiencies to give him a chance to do so), then how is he supposed to correct deficiencies if there is no article he can edit or his submissions are blocked by a protected status? I can understand if the hassles of administering a site like Wikipedia make you somewhat impatient and disposes you to make summary decisions, but there comes a point beyond which impatience becomes abusive. I have been intervening in several cases against judges who, perhaps in a mood of impatience, have been riding roughshod over due process protections and the rules of judicial procedure and conduct. Become too arbitrary and the public is going to start rejecting Wikipedia the way they are beginning to reject the justice system. Jon Roland 02:11, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Which is why we have review processes, as you are currently using. :) However, a judge is hardly "arbitrary" to say "Hey, in order to work with your claim, I need to see some evidence." It's the same when we request sources-we want our readers to be able to see that what they're reading in our articles is, in fact, true. We also want to see that there's enough source material out there on a subject that we can have a good, comprehensive article on it, from verifiable information. If it'll take you a few weeks to find those sources, come back in a few weeks with them! No one's out to get anyone, but just like anything, we do have some rules, and we try to follow them. One of those involves recreating articles after they've been deleted-it's possible, no decision here is forever, but there's got to be some evidence that it'll be better then it was when the community decided it should be deleted. That's not arbitrary-indeed, what would be arbitrary is to allow someone to recreate the same article over and over against the community's expressed wish, with no way of allowing the community to have input on whether the old decision should be reconsidered. Surely, as an attorney, you do realize that such review processes are quite important, and not always instantaneous? Seraphimblade 02:20, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
A judge, however, if he follows established due process, rules of judicial procedure, and precedent, will set a date and time for an evidentiary hearing. He doesn't just render judgment sua sponte and without due notice. It is now clear that I am going to have to maintain copies of the edit windows for things I submit so I have something to work from in making revisions and resubmitting. But I can imagine most people don't come to this realization until they have been burned in this way. If, as you say, I can resubmit when corrections are made, how am I supposed to make them if the article is blocked? Or if the revised version is summarily deleted again, within seconds, apparently without the revisions having gotten due consideration? And do you ever allow for some reasonable grace period on the creation of new articles, to allow time for them to be composed carefully, and the content you demand be added at a leisurely pace that most of the world operates by when they have other demands on their time? Why not allow the author to finish his edits before deleting the article? If he has the article open for editing (and you have the ability to detect that condition, which a good revision control system has), that should be a clue he is still working on it.
It is not arrogant to refer to myself in the third person. That is the way I think of myself when writing about myself as the subject of a discussion. It is common practice to do so to maintain the kind of detachment needed to be reasonably objective.
And if you are going to respond to a suspicion of an ideological agenda by punishing the complainant, that is precisely the kind of abusive behavior that proves the complaint. Judges do that, too, and it doesn't bring confidence in their judicial integrity.Jon Roland 02:58, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You're treating this as a legal proceeding. The issue is not if your article got due process, the issue is if it should be undeleted. Since you appear to have no secondary sources, at all, it should not be undeleted. -Amarkov blahedits 03:03, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

One of you has already aknowledged I have one, the book by Jonathan Karl, who devotes a chapter to me, and who, besides being a correspondent for ABC News, has credentials as a historian in his own right. He is notable enough to have an article of his own, although I don't know him well enough to write it. He has interviewed me by phone and on television, but I didn't have much time to ask about him.Jon Roland 03:13, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't really matter to me what "one of us" has done; we are not a homogenous entity. Regardless, even if you had such a chapter, I would still endorse deletion, because that's not enough to establish notability, nor to verify article content. -Amarkov blahedits 03:16, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No, but it does indicate you are making hasty decisions and not even reading either the submissions or the comments carefully. Those of you who have volunteered to be administrators are to be commended for your willingness to do so, but whether you buy into the fact or not, you are actually operating in a judicial role in a private law arena, and as such, the rest of the community has a right to expect proper judicial conduct from you. I would hate to see the Wikipedia experiment dissolve into contention in real courts over property rights in the articles about living people or organizations, defamation, neglect, or historical inaccuracy. None of us want that. But if you neglect to practice your judgment like good judges, that could happen. If you were editors of a private publication, only the publisher would have to be concerned about that, but when you create a kind of public utility or commons that has a real impact of the lives and fortunes of people, that situation changes. No academic department or law review journal could be as arbitrary as some of you have been today. A little collegiality would go a long way.
There is also a problem with verifying "all content". Not all important subjects are investigated by large numbers of people. Some, especially in the early stages, are known only to a single investigator. For example, I have done significant research on letters of marque and reprisal. You have a somewhat deficient article on "Letter of Marque" that I contemplate correcting. However, there is almost no publshed scholarly literature on the subject, and I suspect at this point I may be the world's leading expert. Am I barred from adding my findings because there is no one else to verify them? Yet it is the one measure which might have made the incursion into Afghanistan constitutional, which I at least consider important. Yet when I asked a deputy to the U.S. Attorney General, charged with managing the legal issues involved in that engagement, to explain the topic, he admitted he didn't know anything about it. This was a nominee to the the federal bench parked in the AG's office pending Senate hearings, and he not only knew nothing about a critical subject in his area of responsbility, he disdained learning anything about it. That is the way we get the public officials whose decisions affect our lives! But the topic is also not fashionable in academia, so getting an article published in a professional journal is unlikely. Self-publication is the only option. That doesn't mean it lacks validity. It just puts the burden of verifying on the reader. Jon Roland 03:57, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As to letters of marque-how, exactly, did you do research without looking at reliable sources? If you did primary research, that's great! Wikipedia is not the place to first publish your research, but once it's published in peer-reviewed historical journals, it is absolutely reliable and suitable to cite as a source. Your contention of "property rights" is fallacious-all contributors agree to contribute under the GFDL whenever they make a submission, and that's clearly stated on the edit page. This means they specifically grant to everyone permission to edit their work. As to defamation, we have clear guidelines in place about that-and avoiding defamation is the exact reason we require sources, and are especially strict on requiring sources when a living person is involved! As to "neglect"-a private website is not required to list information on anyone or anything, and may delete information hosted on its servers entirely at will (unless paying customers are promised other terms, which is not the case here). Surely you're aware of this, as you do claim to be an attorney? As to self-publication, you're welcome to do that. On a privately-hosted website. On Myspace. On any website which will allow you to do so. In a self-published book. However else you can find. But this is not such a website, and confirmation in reliable sources, when publishing on Wikipedia, is not negotiable. Seraphimblade 04:11, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


To respond to your first point above, I mainly work with primary sources. In many cases they are single copies of old documents that will never be seen by any but a few scholars until I scan, OCR, correct, and publish them on the constitution.org website. My reputation as a legal historian is largely based on that kind of work. Like any historian I will then typically analyze the content of that and other works and draw conclusions. That is what you would call original research that you maintain Wikipedia is not the place to publish, but there is an important difference: Whereas most other analyses discuss primary evidence, they typically do not present the evidence for immediate examination. I do. The reader can examine the same evidence I did and come to his own conclusions from it. However, I do bring one more thing to the table: I did that kind of analysis for literally thousands of other works, probably more than any scholar will ever be able to read, unless he starts early and doesn't waste much time over decades. That can produce insights that don't come out by reading a few passages lifted out of a text.
Consider the subject of Letters of Marque and Reprisal (it is important not to omit reprisal). Then I find a statement that letters of marque and reprisal may only be issued to private parties. Even my colleague, Doug Kmiec, testified to that effect before Congress. The problem is, that's wrong! As it happened, almost all the letters of marque and reprisal were issued to privateers, because in a world of monarchs who may declare war on their own authority, there is no need to issue them to officers of the Royal Navy. But there is nothing in the theory of the letter of marque and reprisal, a kind of warrant, that restricts the issuance of them to private parties, just as there is nothing in the theory of search and arrest warrants that restricts the issuance of them to law enforcement agents. (I once almost had a search warrant issued to me as a private citizen because the local sheriff didn't want to serve it on a prominent citizen.) But you won't find a pithy citation on that point. You get it from gaining a deep insight into law as the Founders understood it, but because they took the fundamentals for granted, never really explained in concise ways that we could cite today.
So my problem is, I've found an error, and a serious one, and I am the only expert available to refute it, based on my primary source research. It's not that my research is inaccessible to others. I have tried to make it all available online, but the insights are not expressed in quotable quips. It takes total immersion in the subject. I've done that, and so can anyone else, but I have done it and they are unlikely to. I can cite the authority for my position, but that is a huge body of material that cannot be reduced to a single, short passage, except by my finding about it.
Why is it a serious error? Because the issuance by Congress of letters of marque and reprisal was the one way Congress had to comply with the Constitution concerning the incursion into Afghanistan. Now, I grant that not many people today care about strict constitutional compliance, until it is violated against them, but it is my general conclusion from the study of history that strict constitutional compliance is one of the most important things in human affairs. That itself is not a position I can support with "reliable" sources, because anyone may cite other "reliable sources" that take the opposite position. Ultimately, it comes down to personal choice. But if someone who made one choice grabs the podium, and no one challenges him, his position can come to be seen, mistakenly, as some kind of irrefutable truth rather than as disputable and disputed.
On the legal points you make, I am familiar with them, but I also know that what is provided for in GFDL licenses and other accession contracts is for a civilized world that bears little resemblance to what actually happens in courts, where, as the old saying goes, "A good lawyer knows the law; a great lawyer knows the judge." There is a reason why Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Jones, in a talk to the Harvard Federalist Society in 2003, said that the "American legal system is corrupt beyond recognition". If some lawyer smells money you may find your GFDL resembling Madison's "parchment barrier". I fight that corruption every day. It is the reason I don't seek a bar card, because honest lawyers are not allowed to challenge corrupt judges and prosecutors.

It is not just contributors who may have a justiable interest in what is published on the site. Consider the revelation of sensitive information about someone else than the contributor. Information needed to steal his identity, for example. Or revelation of the location of a protected witness, or of a whistleblower for whom it is the government that is the threat. The possibilities for "when did he stop beating his wife" aspersions are endless. In the words of Cardinal Richelieu, "Give me six lines written by the most honourable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him."

Now I'm not saying one has to make business or editorial decisions on the basis of that corruption, but don't be surprised if it rears up and bites you. "Know everything, believe nothing, and be ready for anything." (And hide your assets.) Jon Roland 07:09, 17 January 2007
What I got out of all that:
  1. I shouldn't have to verify everything because it might be new stuff that only I know.
  2. I shouldn't have to provide secondary sources because I'm gonna give you the primary sources for analysis.
Both of those fail WP:NOR. -Amarkov blahedits 14:52, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No, I am not arguing for special treatment of myself. In all of the above I have been arguing for equal treatment of everyone. I am not important. If I could have my work attributed to "anonymous" that would be fine with me. I once considered doing that, but it doesn't work. People demand to know who did the work, if only to tie the work together to a single author or editor. It is the work, not the worker, that matters. But I am also saying that you are not applying your own standards consistently or even-handedly, or in a way that gives the submitter a reasonable opportunity to respond to demands from editors. I have spent many hours responding to the demands of print editors for more cites, especially of law review articles, where editors seem to feel that one key cite is not enough, but want everything found in "shepardizing" the case, which can result in more footnotes than anyone who reads the article really wants, and cuts into the word limits for the article as a whole. We usually negotiate a compromise.
I have been taking a tour of many articles of interest to me, and I have not found a single article of any length in which everything is verified. Each of them, like the articles in any print encyclopedia, are a mixture of fact and opinion, some of that of professional grade and some of it not, with perhaps some cites that support some or many points, but not all of them. When I turn to the talk sessions involving changes to the articles, I do not find the discussants applying those standards consistently to themselves or one another, or exhibiting a level of subject-matter expertise that makes their comments a "peer review". I am familiar with the peer review standards of professional journals, and the lesser review standards of law review journals (3rd-year law students who have a lot to learn). My print editors don't even aspire to the standards you claim to uphold. They are content to look at the body of work of those they ask to submit articles, spot check their work, find what they examine to be reliable, and form the general opinion that the rest of the author's work is probably also reliable. That is a leap, given that print encyclopedias and journals can't be corrected as online publications can, but they do so in the recognition that corrections can be made in subsequent editions, or in the case of professional journals, that others will submit articles that challenge the findings of earlier ones. Many of my print article commissions are to correct articles written by others that have come under criticism.
You have also not responded to my questions. How do we resubmit articles to satisfy your demands when the article is blocked, as someone has done for the Constitution Society article? I see many other articles for other organizations in the field that are very similar to the version I last tried to submit. Indeed, mine was modeled on some of the others. None of the organizations I looked at had any third-party verifications of their notability. I do not see the same standards being applied to articles on organizations that you are applying to articles on individuals. Nor do I think that would be appropriate. It can't be numbers of voting members. That would probably exclude the Republican and Democratic National Committees, the only formal organizations for their parties with voting powers, organized as nonincorporated associations. Many important organizations are "private foundations" under IRS definitions, others are "public foundations" with self-appointing boards who have the only voting powers. A more reasonable way to assess notability, for individuals or organizations, would be to put up an article and count the numbers of page visits over some period of time, then give extra weight to some deemed notable by peers in their field. After all, 18th century legal philosophers are not going to get as many hits as rock stars, but those of us in that field can better assess their importance to the development of legal thought.Jon Roland 16:11, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jon, the solution here is pretty simple. Cite third-party reliable sources (scholarly legal journals, major media outlets) that have covered you and your work and no one here will contest their validity or notability. If you can do that, which ought to be a fairly simple task, it will be quite easy to get the articles in question restored. If you cannot cite such third-party sources, you have no argument, period.--chris.lawson 18:04, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above is an archived debate of the deletion review of the article above. Please do not modify it.