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Which policy do you have a problem with? I've been an active Wikipedia editor in the past and I think the problem has less to do with removing content, but rath
by canttestthis 14y ago
Which policy do you have a problem with? I've been an active Wikipedia editor in the past and I think the problem has less to do with removing content, but rather maintaining existing content.
- carbocation 14y agoThe recent deletion of lutusp / Paul Lutus's article [1] seems to be a reasonable reflection of the problem with Wikipedia, in my opinion. [1] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lutus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lutus
- canttestthis 14y agoHave you read the discussion thread? [1] He doesn't have enough notability to warrant a dedicated article, and a redirect to the Apple Writer article is sufficient. And Paul himself chimed in asking for the article to be either deleted (which it was), or "frozen against vandalism", which is only applied in extreme cases. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Paul_Lutus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
- carbocation 14y ago> He doesn't have enough notability to warrant a dedicated article You say this as if it were just so. I don't happen to agree.
- tptacek 14y agoWell, what are some citable sources on Paul Lutus that don't principally pertain to his having authored Apple Writer?
- shrughes 14y agoLook at some older versions in the page history (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:EnTerr/Paul_Lutus&action=history https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:EnTerr/Paul_...) before the page got whittled down before some deletion attempt, and you can find quite a few.
- tptacek 14y agoYou're right. I concede the point. It looks like there's some recency bias in WP's decisionmaking process here.