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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Just_unencyclopedic/doesn't_belong" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Just_unencyclopedic/doesn't_belong"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4</span> <span>Just unencyclopedic/doesn't belong</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Just_unencyclopedic/doesn't_belong-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-There_must_be_sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#There_must_be_sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5</span> <span>There must be sources</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-There_must_be_sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Just_notable/Just_not_notable" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Just_notable/Just_not_notable"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6</span> <span>Just notable/Just not notable</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Just_notable/Just_not_notable-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Just_pointing_at_a_policy_or_guideline" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Just_pointing_at_a_policy_or_guideline"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7</span> <span>Just pointing at a policy or guideline</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Just_pointing_at_a_policy_or_guideline-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Assertion_of_notability" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Assertion_of_notability"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8</span> <span>Assertion of notability</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Assertion_of_notability-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Begging_for_mercy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Begging_for_mercy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9</span> <span>Begging for mercy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Begging_for_mercy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Won_or_did_not_win_something" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Won_or_did_not_win_something"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10</span> <span>Won or did not win something</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Won_or_did_not_win_something-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Not_built" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Not_built"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.11</span> <span>Not built</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Not_built-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Personal_point_of_view" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Personal_point_of_view"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Personal point of view</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Personal_point_of_view-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Personal point of view subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Personal_point_of_view-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-I_like_it" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#I_like_it"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>I like it</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-I_like_it-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-I_don't_like_it" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#I_don't_like_it"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>I don't like it</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-I_don't_like_it-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-They_don't_like_it" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#They_don't_like_it"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>They don't like it</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-They_don't_like_it-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-It's_interesting" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#It's_interesting"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>It's interesting</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-It's_interesting-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-It's_useful/useless" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#It's_useful/useless"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>It's useful/useless</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-It's_useful/useless-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-It's_harmful/harmless" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#It's_harmful/harmless"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.6</span> <span>It's harmful/harmless</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-It's_harmful/harmless-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-It's_funny" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#It's_funny"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.7</span> <span>It's funny</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-It's_funny-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-I_don't_get_it" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#I_don't_get_it"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.8</span> <span>I don't get it</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-I_don't_get_it-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-It_looks_good/bad" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#It_looks_good/bad"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.9</span> <span>It looks good/bad</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-It_looks_good/bad-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Surmountable_problems" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Surmountable_problems"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Surmountable problems</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Surmountable_problems-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Surmountable problems subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Surmountable_problems-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Poorly_written_article" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Poorly_written_article"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Poorly written article</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Poorly_written_article-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Offline_sources_only" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Offline_sources_only"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Offline sources only</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Offline_sources_only-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Nobody's_working_on_it_(or_impatience_with_improvement)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Nobody's_working_on_it_(or_impatience_with_improvement)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Nobody's working on it (or impatience with improvement)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Nobody's_working_on_it_(or_impatience_with_improvement)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Orphan_status" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Orphan_status"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>Orphan status</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Orphan_status-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Out_of_date" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Out_of_date"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>Out of date</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Out_of_date-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Susceptibility_to_policy_violations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Susceptibility_to_policy_violations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>Susceptibility to policy violations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Susceptibility_to_policy_violations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-It's_not_neutral" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#It's_not_neutral"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7</span> <span>It's not neutral</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-It's_not_neutral-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Just_not_notable_(I've_never_heard_of_merger_or_redirection)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Just_not_notable_(I've_never_heard_of_merger_or_redirection)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.8</span> <span>Just not notable (I've never heard of merger or redirection)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Just_not_notable_(I've_never_heard_of_merger_or_redirection)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notability_fallacies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notability_fallacies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Notability fallacies</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Notability_fallacies-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Notability fallacies subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Notability_fallacies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Existence" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Existence"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Existence</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Existence-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Google_test" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Google_test"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Google test</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Google_test-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Article_age" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Article_age"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Article age</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Article_age-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Subject_age" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Subject_age"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Subject age</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Subject_age-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Subject_no_longer_exists" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Subject_no_longer_exists"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5</span> <span>Subject no longer exists</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Subject_no_longer_exists-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Pageview_stats" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pageview_stats"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.6</span> <span>Pageview stats</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pageview_stats-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Support_for_article" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Support_for_article"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.7</span> <span>Support for article</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Support_for_article-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Number_of_editors_involved" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Number_of_editors_involved"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.8</span> <span>Number of editors involved</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Number_of_editors_involved-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Article_size" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Article_size"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.9</span> <span>Article size</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Article_size-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Unreliable_sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Unreliable_sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.10</span> <span>Unreliable sources</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Unreliable_sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Trivial_coverage" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Trivial_coverage"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.11</span> <span>Trivial coverage</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Trivial_coverage-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-It's_in_the_news" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#It's_in_the_news"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.12</span> <span>It's in the news</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-It's_in_the_news-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Geographic_scope" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Geographic_scope"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.13</span> <span>Geographic scope</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Geographic_scope-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Arbitrary_quantity" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Arbitrary_quantity"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.14</span> <span>Arbitrary quantity</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Arbitrary_quantity-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Subjective_importance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Subjective_importance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.15</span> <span>Subjective importance</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Subjective_importance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Crystal_ball" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Crystal_ball"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.16</span> <span>Crystal ball</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Crystal_ball-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Past_inaction_by_sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Past_inaction_by_sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.17</span> <span>Past inaction by sources</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Past_inaction_by_sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Past_inaction_by_editors" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Past_inaction_by_editors"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.18</span> <span>Past inaction by editors</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Past_inaction_by_editors-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notability_is_inherited" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notability_is_inherited"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.19</span> <span>Notability is inherited</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notability_is_inherited-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Lots_of_sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Lots_of_sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.20</span> <span>Lots of sources</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Lots_of_sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Wikipedias_in_other_languages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Wikipedias_in_other_languages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.21</span> <span>Wikipedias in other languages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Wikipedias_in_other_languages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Individual_merit" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Individual_merit"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Individual merit</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Individual_merit-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Individual merit subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Individual_merit-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-What_about_article_x?" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#What_about_article_x?"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>What about article x?</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-What_about_article_x?-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Other_categories_exist" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_categories_exist"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.1</span> <span>Other categories exist</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_categories_exist-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-All_or_nothing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#All_or_nothing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>All or nothing</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-All_or_nothing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Meta-reasoning" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Meta-reasoning"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Meta-reasoning</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Meta-reasoning-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Meta-reasoning subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Meta-reasoning-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Wikipedia_should_be_about_everything" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Wikipedia_should_be_about_everything"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Wikipedia should be about everything</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Wikipedia_should_be_about_everything-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Do_not_lose_the_information_or_the_effort" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Do_not_lose_the_information_or_the_effort"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>Do not lose the information or the effort</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Do_not_lose_the_information_or_the_effort-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Better_here_than_there" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Better_here_than_there"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3</span> <span>Better here than there</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Better_here_than_there-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-That's_only_a_guideline,_proposal_or_essay" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#That's_only_a_guideline,_proposal_or_essay"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.4</span> <span>That's only a guideline, proposal or essay</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-That's_only_a_guideline,_proposal_or_essay-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Arguments_to_the_person" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Arguments_to_the_person"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.5</span> <span>Arguments to the person</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Arguments_to_the_person-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Repeated_nominations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Repeated_nominations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.6</span> <span>Repeated nominations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Repeated_nominations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Blackmail" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Blackmail"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.7</span> <span>Blackmail</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Blackmail-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Citing_greater_problems" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Citing_greater_problems"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.8</span> <span>Citing greater problems</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Citing_greater_problems-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Citing_this_page_indiscriminately" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Citing_this_page_indiscriminately"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.9</span> <span>Citing this page indiscriminately</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Citing_this_page_indiscriminately-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Outcomes_based" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Outcomes_based"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.10</span> <span>Outcomes based</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Outcomes_based-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Denying_the_antecedent" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Denying_the_antecedent"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Denying the antecedent</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Denying_the_antecedent-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_arguments_to_avoid" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_arguments_to_avoid"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Other arguments to avoid</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_arguments_to_avoid-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Afrikaans</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D8%AD%D8%AC%D8%AC_%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%BA%D9%8A_%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%A7_%D8%A3%D8%AB%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AA" title="ويكيبيديا:حجج ينبغي تجنبها أثناء النقاشات – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ويكيبيديا:حجج ينبغي تجنبها أثناء النقاشات" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipediya:Silm%C9%99_m%C3%BCzakir%C9%99l%C9%99rind%C9%99_istifad%C9%99_etm%C9%99kd%C9%99n_%C3%A7%C9%99kinm%C9%99li_arqumentl%C9%99r" title="Vikipediya:Silmə müzakirələrində istifadə etməkdən çəkinməli arqumentlər – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Vikipediya:Silmə müzakirələrində istifadə etməkdən çəkinməli arqumentlər" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE:%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A7_%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A3_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF_%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%B9" title="উইকিপিডিয়া:নিবন্ধ অপসারণ আলোচনায় পরিহার্য যুক্তিসমূহ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="উইকিপিডিয়া:নিবন্ধ অপসারণ আলোচনায় পরিহার্য যুক্তিসমূহ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:%CE%95%CF%80%CE%B9%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%81%CE%AE%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1_%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%85_%CF%80%CF%81%CE%AD%CF%80%CE%B5%CE%B9_%CE%BD%CE%B1_%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%B5%CF%8D%CE%B3%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%B5_%CF%83%CE%B5_%CF%83%CF%85%CE%B6%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%AE%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%82_%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%B3%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%86%CE%AE%CF%82" title="Βικιπαίδεια:Επιχειρήματα που πρέπει να αποφεύγετε σε συζητήσεις διαγραφής – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Βικιπαίδεια:Επιχειρήματα που πρέπει να αποφεύγετε σε συζητήσεις διαγραφής" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Argumentos_que_evitar_en_las_consultas_de_borrado" title="Wikipedia:Argumentos que evitar en las consultas de borrado – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Wikipedia:Argumentos que evitar en las consultas de borrado" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D9%87_%D8%A8%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%86%D8%B8%D8%B1%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%87%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%AD%D8%B0%D9%81_%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D8%A2%D9%86%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%B2_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AF" title="ویکی‌پدیا:استدلال‌هایی که باید در نظرخواهی‌های حذف از آن‌ها پرهیز کرد – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ویکی‌پدیا:استدلال‌هایی که باید در نظرخواهی‌های حذف از آن‌ها پرهیز کرد" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aide:Arguments_%C3%A0_%C3%A9viter_lors_d%27un_d%C3%A9bat_d%27admissibilit%C3%A9" title="Aide:Arguments à éviter lors d'un débat d'admissibilité – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Aide:Arguments à éviter lors d'un débat d'admissibilité" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiuto:Motivazioni_da_evitare_nelle_procedure_di_cancellazione" title="Aiuto:Motivazioni da evitare nelle procedure di cancellazione – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Aiuto:Motivazioni da evitare nelle procedure di cancellazione" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Hogyan_ne_%C3%A9rvelj_a_t%C3%B6rl%C3%A9si_megbesz%C3%A9l%C3%A9sen%3F" title="Wikipédia:Hogyan ne érvelj a törlési megbeszélésen? – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Wikipédia:Hogyan ne érvelj a törlési megbeszélésen?" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Argumentos_a_evitar_em_discuss%C3%B5es_de_elimina%C3%A7%C3%A3o" title="Wikipédia:Argumentos a evitar em discussões de eliminação – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Wikipédia:Argumentos a evitar em discussões de eliminação" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Argumente_de_evitat_%C3%AEn_discu%C8%9Biile_privind_%C8%99tergerea_articolelor" title="Wikipedia:Argumente de evitat în discuțiile privind ștergerea articolelor – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Wikipedia:Argumente de evitat în discuțiile privind ștergerea articolelor" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%8B,_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%85_%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C" title="Википедия:Аргументы, которых следует избегать – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Википедия:Аргументы, которых следует избегать" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%B4%E0%B7%93%E0%B6%A9%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%8F:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions" title="විකිපීඩියා:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="විකිපීඩියා:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a 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discussions</a></th></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Arguments to avoid in</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Deletion discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_reviews" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion reviews">Deletion reviews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_adminship_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in adminship discussions">Adminship discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_source_reliability_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in source reliability discussions">Source reliability discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_edit_wars" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in edit wars">Edit wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_feature_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in feature discussions">Feature discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_place_and_transportation_related_deletion_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in place and transportation related deletion discussions">Place/transportation deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_file_deletion_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in file deletion discussions">File deletion discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_template_deletion_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in template deletion discussions">Template deletion discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_on_discussion_pages" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid on discussion pages">On discussion pages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Subjective_importance" title="Wikipedia:Subjective importance">Subjective importance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:But_there_must_be_sources!" title="Wikipedia:But there must be sources!">But there must be sources!</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Arguments to make</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_make_in_deletion_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to make in deletion discussions">Arguments to make in deletion discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_save_an_article_nominated_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:How to save an article nominated for deletion">How to save an article nominated for deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies_and_guidelines_to_cite_in_deletion_debates" title="Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines to cite in deletion debates">Policies and guidelines to cite in deletion debates</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Common outcomes</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Common_outcomes" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes">Articles for deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Common_outcomes" title="Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Common outcomes">Redirects for discussion</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini 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template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>This page details arguments that are commonly seen in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DP">deletion discussions</a> that have been identified as generally unsound and unconvincing. These are arguments that should <em>generally be avoided</em> – or at the least supplemented with a better-grounded rationale for the position taken, whether that be "keep", "delete" or some other objective. Some of the infirm arguments covered are those that are irrelevant or at best side issues, do not address the merits of the reason to keep or delete, are based on anecdote rather than evidence, engage in classic logical fallacies and more—and almost all share the trait of not being based upon the issues listed at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy" title="Wikipedia:Deletion policy">Wikipedia:Deletion policy</a>. It is important when taking part in deletion discussions to anchor one's rationale in relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines, such as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">notability</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiability</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOT">what Wikipedia is not</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">neutral point of view</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOR">no original research</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BLP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BLP">biographies of living people</a>. The arguments covered on this page are far from exhaustive. If an argument you were planning on using is listed here, you might want to reconsider using it. However, just because an argument appears in this list does not necessarily mean it is always invalid. </p><p>Remember that a discussion rationale which arguably could be classified as an "argument to avoid", may still contain the germ of a valid point. For example, if a person argues that an article is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:INTERESTING" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:INTERESTING">interesting</a>, and in making that point, cites evidence that could also be used to support a determination of notability, it is wrong to summarily dismiss that argument just because WP:INTERESTING is a section in this essay. As this essay tries to stimulate people to use sound arguments in deletion discussions, it is important to realize that countering the <i>keep</i> or <i>delete</i> arguments of other people, or dismissing them outright, by simply referring them to this essay is not encouraged (see also the section <i><a href="#Just_pointing_at_a_policy_or_guideline">Just a policy or guideline</a></i> below). </p><p>While this page is tailored to deletion discussion, be that of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AFD">articles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TFD">templates</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IFD">images</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CFD">categories</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SFD">stub types</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RFD">redirects</a>, these arguments to avoid may also apply to other discussions, such as about deleting article content, moving pages, etc. <i>(see also <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_on_discussion_pages" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid on discussion pages">WP:Arguments to avoid on discussion pages</a>)</i> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1216972533">.mw-parser-output .col-begin{border-collapse:collapse;padding:0;color:inherit;width:100%;border:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .col-begin-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .col-break{vertical-align:top;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .col-break-2{width:50%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-3{width:33.3%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-4{width:25%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-5{width:20%}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .col-begin,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr>td{display:block!important;width:100%!important}.mw-parser-output .col-break{padding-left:0!important}}</style><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation" style="width: auto; float: right; clear: right;"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><table class="sidebar nomobile nowraplinks plainlist" style="width:auto"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-title"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_process#Deletion_discussion_venues" title="Wikipedia:Deletion process">Deletion discussions</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-above" style="margin-top:0;padding-top:0; font-weight:normal;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa; display:block;margin-bottom:0.3em;"> <ul><li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:XfD_today" title="Wikipedia:XfD today">Deletion today</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion" title="Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion">Undeletion</a></li></ul></div></li> <li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review" title="Wikipedia:Deletion review">Deletion review</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:Log/delete" title="Special:Log/delete">Deletion log</a></li></ul></div></li> <li><div style="display:inline-block; padding:0.2em 0.4em; line-height:1.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_administrators_willing_to_provide_copies_of_deleted_articles" title="Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to provide copies of deleted articles">Request a copy of a<br />deleted article</a></div></li></ul></td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="font-size: 110%"> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion">Articles</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist" style="margin-top:0;padding-top:0;font-size: 110%"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2024_November_23" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2024 November 23">today</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:AfD_debates" title="Category:AfD debates">all</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/User:SDZeroBot/AfD_sorting" title="User:SDZeroBot/AfD sorting">sorted</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2024_November_16" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2024 November 16">closing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log">log</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="font-size: 110%"> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Templates for discussion">Templates and 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href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Files_for_discussion/2024_November_23" title="Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2024 November 23">today</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_files_for_discussion" title="Category:Wikipedia files for discussion">all</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Files_for_discussion/2024_November_16" title="Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2024 November 16">closing</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="font-size: 110%"> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion">Categories</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist" style="margin-top:0;padding-top:0;font-size: 110%"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_November_23" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 November 23">today</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/All_current_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/All current discussions">all</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Categories_for_discussion" title="Category:Categories for discussion">category</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_November_16" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 November 16">closing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Speedy" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy">speedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Working" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working">working</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Working/Manual" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Manual">manual</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="font-size: 110%"> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion">Redirects</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist" style="margin-top:0;padding-top:0;font-size: 110%"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2024_November_23" title="Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 November 23">today</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Redirects_for_discussion" title="Category:Redirects for discussion">all</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2024_November_16" title="Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 November 16">closing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log" title="Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log">log</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="font-size: 110%"> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion">Miscellany</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist" style="margin-top:0;padding-top:0;font-size: 110%;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion#November_23,_2024" title="Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion">today</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Miscellaneous_pages_for_deletion" title="Category:Miscellaneous pages for deletion">all</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion#Old_business" title="Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion">closing</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="font-size: 110%;display:block;margin-top:0.4em;"> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion">Speedy deletion</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist" style="margin-top:0;padding-top:0;font-size: 110%"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Candidates_for_speedy_deletion" title="Category:Candidates for speedy deletion">candidates</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="font-size: 110%"> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Proposed deletion">Proposed deletion</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist" style="margin-top:0;padding-top:0;font-size: 110%"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:All_articles_proposed_for_deletion" title="Category:All articles proposed for deletion">all</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/User:SDZeroBot/PROD_sorting" title="User:SDZeroBot/PROD sorting">sorted</a>)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion_of_biographies_of_living_people" title="Wikipedia:Proposed deletion of biographies of living people">BLPs</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa;font-weight:normal;padding-bottom:0.5em;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;"> <ul><li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy" title="Wikipedia:Deletion policy">Policy</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_process" title="Wikipedia:Deletion process">Process</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Guide to deletion">Guide</a> (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_image_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Guide to image deletion">Images</a>)</li></ul></div></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_guidelines_for_administrators" title="Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators">Administrator guidelines</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Deletion_debates" title="Template:Deletion debates"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Deletion_debates" title="Template talk:Deletion debates"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Deletion_debates" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Deletion debates"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> </td> <td class="col-break"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1232484023">.mw-parser-output .help-box{background:#f5faff;line-height:1.6em}.mw-parser-output .help-box .sidebar-title{background:#cee0f2;font-size:130%;padding-left:0.4em;padding-right:0.4em;margin-bottom:6px}.mw-parser-output .help-box .sidebar-heading{background:#cee0f2;padding:0.1em 0.7em 0.15em}.mw-parser-output .help-box .sidebar-content,.mw-parser-output .help-box .sidebar-content-with-subgroup{padding-top:0.15em}@media all and (min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .help-box{width:auto;max-width:22em}}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .help-box{background:#0d1a27}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .help-box .sidebar-title,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .help-box .sidebar-heading{background:#082849}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .help-box{background-color:#0d1a27}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .help-box .sidebar-title,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .help-box .sidebar-heading{background:#082849}}</style><table class="sidebar nomobile nowraplinks help-box noprint plainlist" style="clear:right;width:20.0em;"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-title">Common decisions<br />and arguments</th></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy" title="Wikipedia:Deletion policy">Deletion (<i>X</i>fD)</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Arguments to avoid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Common_outcomes" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes">Common outcomes (AfD)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Common_outcomes" title="Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Common outcomes">Common outcomes (RfD)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Common_outcomes" title="Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Common outcomes">Common outcomes (TfD)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization" title="Wikipedia:Overcategorization">Overcategorisation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Perennial_requests" title="Wikipedia:Deletion review/Perennial requests">Perennial deletion review</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship" title="Wikipedia:Requests for adminship">Adminship (RfA) and<br />Bureaucratship (RfB)</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_adminship_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in adminship discussions">Arguments to avoid</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests">Arbitration (Arbcom)</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide_to_arbitration" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration">Guide to arbitration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Principles" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Principles">Principles</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">Proposals and policy</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Perennial_proposals" title="Wikipedia:Perennial proposals">Perennial proposals</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Precedents" title="Template:Precedents"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:Precedents&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:Precedents (page does not exist)"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Precedents" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Precedents"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Arguments_without_arguments">Arguments without arguments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Arguments without arguments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:NOTARG"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOTARG&redirect=no">WP:NOTARG</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>This section is about deletion arguments that do not seem to make sense, and otherwise <i>do not</i> point at or even make correct usage of policies or guidelines whatsoever. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Just_a_vote">Just a vote</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Just a vote"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:JV"></span><span id="WP:NOREASON"></span><span id="WP:JUSTAVOTE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:JV&redirect=no">WP:JV</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOREASON&redirect=no">WP:NOREASON</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:JUSTAVOTE&redirect=no">WP:JUSTAVOTE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">ThoughtlessMcKeep</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:01, 11 January 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">DeleteyMcSheep</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 23:28, 3 January 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>This is not an argument for or against deletion at all, it's a vote. As <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion">WP:Articles for deletion</a> states, "The debate is not a vote; please make recommendations on the course of action to be taken, sustained by arguments" and the same applies to all deletion debates. Any statement that just consists of "<b>Keep</b>" or "<b>Delete</b>" with a signature can easily be dismissed by the admin making the final decision, and changing "<b>Keep</b>" to "<b>Strong keep</b>" or "<b>Speedy keep</b>" or even "<b>Weak keep</b>" will not make it any more relevant. Try to present persuasive reasons in line with policy or consensus as to why the article/template/category/whatever should be kept/deleted, and try to make sure it is an argument based on cogent reasons. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="Per_nom"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Per_nominator/X"><span id="Per_nominator.2FX"></span>Per nominator/X</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Per nominator/X"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:PERNOMINATOR"></span><span id="WP:PERNOM"></span><span id="WP:PERX"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PERNOMINATOR&redirect=no">WP:PERNOMINATOR</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PERNOM&redirect=no">WP:PERNOM</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PERX&redirect=no">WP:PERX</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> per nom. – <a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Trustfull</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 04:04, 4 April 2009 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> as per User:<span style="color:inherit;">IvanIdea</span>'s statement. – <a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Sup</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 11:38, 1 April 2020 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>It is important to keep in mind that the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AFD">AfD process</a> is designed to solicit discussion, not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:VIE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:VIE">votes</a> (see also <a href="#Just_a_vote">§ Just a vote</a>). Comments adding nothing but a statement of support to a prior comment add little to the discussion (and are a form of <a href="#I_like_it">§ I like it</a>, just directed at someone's vote instead of the article itself). Participants are always encouraged to provide evidence or arguments that are grounded in policy, practice, or simple good sense to support their positions. </p><p>If the rationale provided in a comment includes a comprehensive argument, specific policy references and/or a compelling presentation of evidence in favour of keeping or deletion, an endorsement of that argument may be sufficient. (Example: "<b>Delete</b> per nom. I find their argument that such and such policy is not met compelling") </p><p>Where reasonable counter-arguments to the nomination have been raised in the discussion, you may wish to explain how you justify your support in your own words and, where possible, marshalling your own evidence. Stating your true position in your own words will also assure others that you are not hiding a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IDONTLIKEIT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IDONTLIKEIT">WP:IDONTLIKEIT</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ILIKEIT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ILIKEIT">WP:ILIKEIT</a> position. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Per_majority">Per majority</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Per majority"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:MAJORITY"></span><span id="WP:EVERYONEELSE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:MAJORITY&redirect=no">WP:MAJORITY</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:EVERYONEELSE&redirect=no">WP:EVERYONEELSE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Follow_the_leader" title="Wikipedia:Follow the leader">WP:Follow the leader</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OUTCAST" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OUTCAST">WP:OUTCAST</a></div> <p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> per everyone else. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Grouper</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 04:04, 4 April 2021 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Most people are saying it should be deleted, and it looks like that is what will happen. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">SelfFulfillingProphecy</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 04:04, 4 April 2021 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>AfD is a discussion in which all participants are encouraged to give their own independent opinion. It is the ideas of individuals, not the propaganda of others, that is supposed to help determine the outcome. One who bases one's statement on that crowd as a whole is not making any useful contribution to the discussion, but instead blocking the progress of new opinions. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CCC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CCC">Consensus can change</a>, and it is not uncommon for attitudes to shift during a deletion discussion. When it seems after just a few days that it'll surely go one way, often one single statement can turn the tide. Also, articles can be improved over the course of a discussion, leading others to change their minds. It can be the statement or the salvaging work of one person who is at first in the minority that makes all the difference. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="It's_unencyclopedic"></span><span class="anchor" id="It_is_unencyclopedic"></span><span class="anchor" id="Wikipedia_is_an_encyclopedia"></span><span class="anchor" id="Unencyclopedic"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Just_unencyclopedic/doesn't_belong"><span id="Just_unencyclopedic.2Fdoesn.27t_belong"></span>Just unencyclopedic/doesn't belong</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Just unencyclopedic/doesn't belong"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:UNENCYCLOPEDIC"></span><span id="WP:UNENCYC"></span><span id="WP:BELONG"></span><span id="WP:DOESNTBELONG"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:UNENCYCLOPEDIC&redirect=no">WP:UNENCYCLOPEDIC</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:UNENCYC&redirect=no">WP:UNENCYC</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BELONG&redirect=no">WP:BELONG</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:DOESNTBELONG&redirect=no">WP:DOESNTBELONG</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"WP:UNENCYCLOPEDIC" and "WP:BELONG" redirect here. For policy on unencyclopedic content, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Encyclopedic_content" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">WP:What Wikipedia is not § Encyclopedic content</a>. For page possessiveness, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_content" title="Wikipedia:Ownership of content">WP:Ownership of content</a>.</div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> as unencyclopedic. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Cyclops</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 06:26, 1 August 2006 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> This definitely belongs in an encyclopedia. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">TrustMeItFits</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 22:53, 3 August 2008 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>What shouldn't be included in the encyclopedia, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Encyclopedic_content" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">what Wikipedia is not</a>, has been defined by consensus. However, this includes many types of things, each having its own section within that or another policy. Therefore, the terms "unencyclopedic", and its flip-side "encyclopedic", are too general to be useful in deletion discussions. What we need to know are the <i>specific reasons</i> why the article should or should not be included. Otherwise, you just leave us guessing as to what you meant. Simply answer the question, <i>What policy (or guideline) does it violate or meet, and how?</i> An example of a well-specified deletion nomination is "The article is nothing more than a dictionary definition, and therefore violates <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT#DICDEF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOT">WP:NOT#DICDEF</a>". </p><p><span class="anchor" id="It's_not_notable"></span><span class="anchor" id="Just_not_notable"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="There_must_be_sources">There must be sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: There must be sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:But_there_must_be_sources!" title="Wikipedia:But there must be sources!">WP:But there must be sources!</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:MUSTBESOURCES"></span><span id="WP:SOURCESEXIST"></span><span id="WP:SOURCESMAYEXIST"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:MUSTBESOURCES&redirect=no">WP:MUSTBESOURCES</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:SOURCESEXIST&redirect=no">WP:SOURCESEXIST</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:SOURCESMAYEXIST&redirect=no">WP:SOURCESMAYEXIST</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b>. There must be plenty of sources. – <a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">The Great Presumer</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:01, 12 January 2013 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Don't just claim that there must be sources out there somewhere. Instead, prove it, by providing them. </p><p>We keep articles because we know they have sources, not because we assume they have, without having seen them. Any claim that sources exist must be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verifiable</a>, and unless you can indicate what and where the sources are, they are not verifiable. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Just_notable/Just_not_notable"><span id="Just_notable.2FJust_not_notable"></span>Just notable/Just not notable</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Just notable/Just not notable"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:JN"></span><span id="WP:JNN"></span><span id="WP:JUSTNOTABLE"></span><span id="WP:ITSNOTABLE"></span><span id="WP:Clearly_notable"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:JN&redirect=no">WP:JN</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:JNN&redirect=no">WP:JNN</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:JUSTNOTABLE&redirect=no">WP:JUSTNOTABLE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ITSNOTABLE&redirect=no">WP:ITSNOTABLE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Clearly_notable&redirect=no">WP:Clearly notable</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> as non-notable. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">NotableGuru</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 16:25, 5 February 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> Topic is notable. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">OracleOfNote</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 09:17, 4 June 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Simply stating that the subject of an article is not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability" title="Wikipedia:Notability">notable</a> does not provide reasoning as to <i>why</i> the subject may not be notable. This behavior straddles both "<a href="#Just_unencyclopedic/doesn't_belong">Just unencyclopedic</a>" and "<a href="#Just_pointing_at_a_policy_or_guideline">Just pointing at a policy or guideline</a>". </p><p>Instead of just saying, <i>"Non-notable"</i>, consider instead saying, <i>"No <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable sources</a> found to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verify</a> notability"</i>, or <i>"The sources are not independent, and so cannot establish that the subject passes our standards on notability"</i>, or <i>"The sources do not provide the significant coverage required by the notability standard."</i> Providing specific reasons why the subject may not be notable gives other editors an opportunity to research and supply sources that may establish or confirm the subject's notability. </p><p>Just as problematic is asserting that something <i>is</i> notable without providing an explanation or source for such a claim of notability; this is often seen when trying to assert notability under a sub-guideline (like <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NMUSIC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NMUSIC">music</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WEB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WEB">internet content</a>). Self-promoting wannabes have, for example, tried to get themselves into Wikipedia by falsely claiming to pass a notability criterion that they did not actually pass — musicians claiming charting hits that never really charted, writers claiming award nominations they were never really given, etc. — so the notability test is not passed just by stating passage of a notability criterion, but rather requires reliably sourced verification that the claim to passing a notability criterion is true. Additionally, the subject may possibly pass <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">WP:N</a>, but fails a more stringent set of standards: for example, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BLP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BLP">articles about notable living people</a> may be deleted if they are marginally notable, and must be deleted if they are defamatory. The standards of inclusion don't mandate inclusion; they merely suggest it. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="Just_a_policy_or_guideline"></span><span class="anchor" id="Pointing_at_policy"></span><span class="anchor" id="Per_policy"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Just_pointing_at_a_policy_or_guideline">Just pointing at a policy or guideline</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Just pointing at a policy or guideline"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:JUSTAPOLICY"></span><span id="WP:JUSTA"></span><span id="WP:VAGUEWAVE"></span><span id="WP:VAGUEWAVES"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:JUSTAPOLICY&redirect=no">WP:JUSTAPOLICY</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:JUSTA&redirect=no">WP:JUSTA</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:VAGUEWAVE&redirect=no">WP:VAGUEWAVE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:VAGUEWAVES&redirect=no">WP:VAGUEWAVES</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> Meets <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOR">WP:NOR</a> –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Policylover</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:01, 5 May 2009 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> per <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">WP:V</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">WP:RS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OR">WP:OR</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">WP:NPOV</a>, etc. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Pilingiton</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:01, 5 May 2009 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> because <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IAR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IAR">we should ignore all rules!</a> –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Anarwikist</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:41, 2 August 2008 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>While merely citing a policy or guideline may give other editors a clue as to what the reasoning is, it does not explain specifically how the policy applies to the discussion at hand. When asserting that an article should be deleted, it is important to explain why. The same is true when asserting that something does follow policy. </p><p>As noted <a href="#Just_a_vote">above</a>, deletion discussions are not "votes". They are <i>discussions</i> with the goal of determining <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">consensus</a>. Rather than merely writing "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Original_research" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Original research">Original research</a>", or "Does not meet <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">WP:Verifiability</a>", consider writing a more detailed summary, e.g. "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OR">Original research</a>: the main claim of subject's notability ('Future Nobel Prize') is unattributed speculation" or "Does not meet <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">WP:Verifiability</a> – only sources cited are blogs and chat forum posts". Providing specific reasons why the subject may be original research or improperly sourced gives other editors an opportunity to supply sources that better underpin the claims made in the article. </p><p>Keep in mind that articles can often be improved, and may not need to be deleted if the specific problems can be identified and corrected (see <a href="#Surmountable_problems">surmountable problems</a>, below.) </p><p>Also, while citing essays that summarize a position can be useful shorthand, citing an essay (like this one) just by one of its many shortcuts (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ILIKEIT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ILIKEIT">WP:ILIKEIT</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IDONTLIKEIT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IDONTLIKEIT">WP:IDONTLIKEIT</a>), without further explanation, is similarly ill-advised, for the reasons explained above. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="Point_of_view"></span><span class="anchor" id="POV"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Assertion_of_notability">Assertion of notability</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Assertion of notability"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ASSERTN"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ASSERTN&redirect=no">WP:ASSERTN</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> No assertion of notability. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">If It Was It'd Say So</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:10, 28 July 2011 (UTC)<br /></li> <li><b>Delete</b> There's no way anyone could be notable just by doing <i>that</i>. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Not a chance</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:10, 28 July 2011 (UTC)<br /></li> <li><b>Keep</b> The article's content asserts importance and significance for the topic. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">WhoNeedsProof</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 23:05, 28 July 2011 (UTC)<br /></li></ul> <p>An <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Credible_claim_of_significance" title="Wikipedia:Credible claim of significance">assertion of importance or significance</a> (not "notability", as such, though these are often and unfortunately conflated and confused) is related to a potential reason to delete an article, but not one that is relevant at Articles for Deletion, where the <i>merits</i> of notability are determined. This formula is the purview of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:A7" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:A7">CSD A7</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:A9">A9</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:A11" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:A11">A11</a>, three of the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CSD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CSD">criteria for speedy deletion</a>. These criteria are a test of what is seen in the article content and only apply to specific subject areas and conditions. If an article on an A7- A9- or A11-eligible topic does not make a credible assertion of importance or significance for that topic, it should be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CSD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CSD">nominated for speedy deletion</a>, which is a much faster and simpler process than nomination at Articles for Deletion. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">Notability</a>, on the other hand, is based on whether the topic itself meets the criteria – not on what is or is not currently in the article. Thus, whether an article <i>asserts</i> significance for its topic is not germane when notability is at issue at an AfD discussion; what matters is the <i>existence</i> of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IRS">reliable</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SECONDARY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SECONDARY">secondary</a> sources that are entirely <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:INDEPENDENT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:INDEPENDENT">independent</a> of the topic that have published detailed content about it, regardless of the present state of the article. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Begging_for_mercy">Begging for mercy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Begging for mercy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:MERCY"></span><span id="WP:PLEASEDONT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:MERCY&redirect=no">WP:MERCY</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PLEASEDONT&redirect=no">WP:PLEASEDONT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> I worked so hard on this article. Do you really want to put my contributions to waste? –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">DoNotHurtMe</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:01, 4 June 2017 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> You would be doing me a big favor if you changed your "deletes" to "keeps" –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Mindchanger</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:01, 4 June 2017 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> I need more time to work on it –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">NotFinishedYet</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:01, 4 June 2017 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Such arguments make no use of policy or guidelines whatsoever. They are merely a campaign on the part of the commentator to alter others' points-of-view. They are of no help in reaching a consensus, and anyone responding to such pleas is not helping either. </p><p>You should also make yourself familiar with <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CANVASS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CANVASS">Wikipedia's canvassing guidelines</a> before you solicit "votes" one way or the other in a discussion. </p><p>If you feel you need more time to work on an article you just created that has been put up for deletion early on, an option may be to request <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:USERFY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:USERFY">userfication</a>, where you can spend as much time as you wish to improve the article until it meets Wikipedia's inclusion guidelines. Once this has been accomplished, you can reintroduce it into main article space. </p><p>Over the years, several templates have been created to be placed on top of pages indicating that they are new and may take time to complete to Wikipedia's standards. These include <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Newpage" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Newpage">newpage</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>, <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Construction" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Construction">construction</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>, and <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Newlist" title="Template:Newlist">newlist</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>. If such a template is found on a newly created page, as a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CIVIL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CIVIL">common courtesy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPP">new page patrollers</a> and others should not rush to delete the page unless it is obvious that it can never meet inclusion guidelines. If one is uncertain of this, or if it appears no progress has been made in a reasonable amount of time, the creator should be contacted regarding their intentions, and given a reasonable amount of time to reply. It is recommended for one who is considering putting it up for deletion to consider userfication as an alternative. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Won_or_did_not_win_something">Won or did not win something</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Won or did not win something"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:DIDNOTWIN"></span><span id="WP:RUNNERUP"></span><span id="WP:TOP4"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:DIDNOTWIN&redirect=no">WP:DIDNOTWIN</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:RUNNERUP&redirect=no">WP:RUNNERUP</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:TOP4&redirect=no">WP:TOP4</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> The person lost in the competition/event, so they couldn't possibly be notable. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Jesse NoVotewens</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 00:00, 31 November 2015 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> This album has a 1 out of 5 rating on <a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a>, something this horrid album deserves instead of a Wikipedia article. —<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Editor In The Shadows</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 00:05, 22 May 2017 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> She won a contest and thus passes <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ANYBIO" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ANYBIO">WP:ANYBIO</a> -<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">AllAwardsAreCreatedEqual</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 00:06, 12 August 2021 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Yes, it's true that subjects winning notable awards or landing on "best of" year-end lists by independent publications can significantly impact their notability. However, arguments which base notability or lack thereof upon winning, wins, success or popularity make no use of policies or guidelines. In fact, plenty of subjects, like <i><a href="/wiki/The_Room_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Room (film)">The Room</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Birdemic:_Shock_and_Terror" title="Birdemic: Shock and Terror">Birdemic: Shock and Terror</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Big_Rigs:_Over_the_Road_Racing" title="Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing">Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Hotel_Mario" title="Hotel Mario">Hotel Mario</a></i>, are significantly important and covered in several reliable sources <a href="/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst" title="List of films considered the worst">due to their</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_video_games_notable_for_negative_reception" title="List of video games notable for negative reception">unusual amount</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_music_considered_the_worst" title="List of music considered the worst">of failure</a>. We do not have articles only because people and/or organizations are successful; <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PERFECTION" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PERFECTION">everyone and everything makes mistakes!</a> We have articles rather because they are notable and have verifiable and reliable sources. If a celebrity or organization is "failing", then the content can mention that failure in a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">neutral point-of-view</a>, provided there are reliable sources. In short: Just because a celebrity or organization is "losing" doesn't mean it's not notable! </p><p>Further, awards do not necessarily confer inherent notability on their winners. It is necessary to establish that the award itself is notable in the first place, by virtue of being broadly reported upon by the media as a news story. For instance, a major national film, literary or music award that gets media coverage is a valid notability claim, while a regional, local or special interest award that lacks media coverage and can only be referenced to its own self-published primary source content is not. For some prominent awards that curate and announce shortlists of nominees in advance of announcing the final winner, such as the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Awards" title="Academy Awards">Academy Awards</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Awards" title="Grammy Awards">Grammy Awards</a>, the nomination itself can be a sufficient notability claim for a nominee, whether or not they win. </p><p>However, there have still been some instances of award nominees and winners who were deleted because of an inability to locate enough solid sources to actually support an article. For example, it may be much harder to actually write and properly source articles about a film's sound technician(s) than it is about the film's actors or director. Just as with winners, a nomination for a major award of this type is generally sufficient if the article can be reliably sourced, but may not be sufficient if you have to depend exclusively on primary sources. </p><p>Note as well that some of our subject-specific notability criteria do in fact take winning into account. For example, our <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOL">notability criteria for politicians</a> generally require holding a notable office rather than just running for one and losing, and non-winning competitors in reality shows are not automatically notable just because they were on a reality show. Note losing in one competition/event does not preclude being notable for other reasons, such as being notable in other areas (for example, <a href="/wiki/Cynthia_Nixon" title="Cynthia Nixon">Cynthia Nixon</a>), holding a notable public office (for example, <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a>), or accomplishing separate notable achievements beyond appearing in a reality show (for example, <a href="/wiki/Jon_Dorenbos" title="Jon Dorenbos">Jon Dorenbos</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Hudson" title="Jennifer Hudson">Jennifer Hudson</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Not_built">Not built</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Not built"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:NOTBUILT"></span><span id="WP:UNDERCONSTRUCTION"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOTBUILT&redirect=no">WP:NOTBUILT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:UNDERCONSTRUCTION&redirect=no">WP:UNDERCONSTRUCTION</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> It is still under construction, so it can't be notable. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Under Construction</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 00:01, 1 May 2011 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Such arguments make no use of policies or guidelines to substantiate claims of non-notability. A thing that is never built may still be historically significant as a proposal, with enough coverage to clear <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GNG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GNG">WP:GNG</a> regardless of the plan's failure to ever actually come to fruition, and people ten or twenty years from now may very well still be looking for information about what the proposal was and why it failed. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_point_of_view">Personal point of view</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Personal point of view"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:PPOV"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PPOV&redirect=no">WP:PPOV</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:I_just_don%27t_like_it" title="Wikipedia:I just don't like it">WP:I just don't like it</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_on_discussion_pages#Personal_taste" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid on discussion pages">WP:Arguments to avoid on discussion pages § Personal taste</a></div> <p>This section covers deletion arguments based on personal biases rather than policies or guidelines. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="I_like_it">I like it</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: I like it"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ILI"></span><span id="WP:LIKE"></span><span id="WP:ILIKE"></span><span id="WP:ILIKEIT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ILI&redirect=no">WP:ILI</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:LIKE&redirect=no">WP:LIKE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ILIKE&redirect=no">WP:ILIKE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ILIKEIT&redirect=no">WP:ILIKEIT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Example:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> The Angry Young Popes are the best rock band in the world right now. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">SuperFan</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 02:02, 2 February 2008 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Wikipedia editors are a pretty diverse group of individuals, and potentially any subject or topic may be liked or disliked by some editor somewhere. However, personal preference is not a valid reason to keep or delete an article or other content. </p><p>As stated at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">WP:Verifiability</a>: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>In Wikipedia, verifiability means that anyone using the encyclopedia can check that the information comes from a reliable source. Wikipedia does not publish original research. Its content is determined by previously published information rather than the beliefs or experiences of its editors. Even if you're sure something is true, it must be verifiable before you can add it.</p></blockquote> <p>In other words, a person or group may well be the greatest example of what they do in the history of everything, but if no other <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiable</a> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable sources</a> have been written about them that are relevant to the scope of the article, they cannot be included. If your favourite song/computer game/webcomic/whatever is as great as you believe, someone will likely write about it eventually, so please just be patient. </p><p>In general, the scope and purpose of the article must be kept in mind when considering inclusion or exclusion of information or sources. When sources significantly deviate from the scope of an article's topic, or subject, this may create room for disputes. Therefore, careful considerations such as weight and relevance should also be taken into account in making decisions. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="I_do_not_like_it"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="I_don't_like_it"><span id="I_don.27t_like_it"></span>I don't like it</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: I don't like it"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:IDL"></span><span id="WP:IDLI"></span><span id="WP:IDONTLIKEIT"></span><span id="WP:ITSCRUFT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:IDL&redirect=no">WP:IDL</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:IDLI&redirect=no">WP:IDLI</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:IDONTLIKEIT&redirect=no">WP:IDONTLIKEIT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ITSCRUFT&redirect=no">WP:ITSCRUFT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:I_just_don%27t_like_it" title="Wikipedia:I just don't like it">WP:I just don't like it</a></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b>: The Great White Dopes are the worst rock band ever. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">SuperCritic</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 02:03, 2 February 2010 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b>: It's annoying. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">IAmReallyAnnoyed</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:03, 3 March 2006 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b>: No need. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">NecessityIsTheMotherOfInvention</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 06:07, 5 April 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Cruft" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Cruft">cruft</a>. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Cruftbane</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 16:16, 24 June 2013 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> as trivia. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">NoTriviaHere</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:56, 4 August 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b>: I'm so ashamed this article is on Wikipedia. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Mortified_Molly</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:31, 16 February 2010 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b>: Got bored of reading. Not of interest to English-speakers. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">HastyHannigan</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:07, 25 July 2011 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b>: This makes me look stupid! –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Reputation Defender</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 19:10, 25 February 2016 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> This offends me. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">OnTheDefense</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 11:47, 1 February 2015 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> It's offensive to my religion. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">MyGodIsBetterThanYours</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 16:56, 18 December 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>This is the converse to <a href="#I_like_it">I like it</a> directly above. While some editors may dislike certain kinds of information, that alone isn't enough for something to be deleted. This may be coupled with (or replaced by) the unexplained claim that they feel that the information is "unencyclopedic" (see <a href="#Just_unencyclopedic/doesn't_belong">Just unencyclopedic</a>, above). Such claims require an explanation of <i>which</i> policy the content fails and explanation of <i>why</i> that policy applies as the rationale for deletion. (See also <a href="#Pointing_at_policy">Pointing at policy</a>.) </p><p>This may include subjective opinions concerning the usage of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NFC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NFC">fair use images</a> (see also <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NFCC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NFCC">WP:NFCC</a>), and the inclusion of what may be deemed <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT#TRIVIA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOT">trivia</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CRUFT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CRUFT">cruft</a>. For example, while the "cruft" label is often used for anything perceived to be of minor interest (such as individual songs, or episodes of a TV show), it is worth considering carefully whether or not so-called "cruft" has potential for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiable</a> inclusion. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="I_do_not_care"></span><span class="anchor" id="I_don't_care_about_it"></span><span class="anchor" id="It_is_interesting"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="They_don't_like_it"><span id="They_don.27t_like_it"></span>They don't like it</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: They don't like it"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:TDLI"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:TDLI&redirect=no">WP:TDLI</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples</i>: </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b>: It would be censorship to delete this. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">For We Are Many</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:37, 27 February 2012 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b>. The Fooians don't want anyone to know this, we shouldn't bow to Fooian interests. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">AntiFooian</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:08, 27 February 2012 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b>. We can't get rid of an article just because it makes people uncomfortable. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">PoliticallyIncorrectHero</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 17:26, 27 February 2012 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b>. Baz supporters want to delete it because it makes Baz look bad. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">OccupyBaz</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 23:42, 27 February 2012 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>And on the converse of that converse (see <a href="#I_don't_like_it">I don't like it</a>, directly above), while some editors may feel that deleting a page would be playing into the hands of a certain group, that alone isn't enough by itself for something to be kept. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTCENSORED" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTCENSORED">Wikipedia is not censored</a>, but this fact does not supersede its guidelines on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">notability</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiability</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">neutral point of view</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OR">original research</a>, etc. In addition, if such an argument is used against the nominator specifically, it constitutes a failure to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AGF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AGF">assume the nominator's good faith</a> and if severe enough may constitute a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPA">personal attack</a>. </p><p>It does sometimes happen, of course, that a user will nominate an article for deletion out of a desire to censor or hide the content, but one should be able to respond to these nominations with reliable sources and policy-based arguments. If the deletion rationale really is that thin, it should be easy to refute. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="It's_interesting"><span id="It.27s_interesting"></span>It's interesting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: It's interesting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:IDONTCARE"></span><span id="WP:INTERESTING"></span><span id="WP:BORING"></span><span id="WP:APATHY"></span><span id="WP:WHOCARES"></span><span id="WP:NOTINTERESTING"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:IDONTCARE&redirect=no">WP:IDONTCARE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:INTERESTING&redirect=no">WP:INTERESTING</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BORING&redirect=no">WP:BORING</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:APATHY&redirect=no">WP:APATHY</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WHOCARES&redirect=no">WP:WHOCARES</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOTINTERESTING&redirect=no">WP:NOTINTERESTING</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> Interesting. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Fascinated</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 05:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Not interesting. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Borrrrrinnnnng</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 05:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Who cares about this stuff anyway? –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Indifferent</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 17:28, 19 February 2007 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Wikipedia editors are a pretty diverse group of individuals and our readers and potential readers include everyone on the planet. Any subject or topic may be of interest to someone, somewhere. And on the converse, there are any number of subjects or topics which an individual editor may not care about. However, personal interest or apathy is not a valid reason to keep or delete an article. </p><p>See also <a href="#I_like_it">I like it</a> and <a href="#I_don't_like_it">I don't like it</a>, above. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="It.27s_useful"></span><span class="anchor" id="It_is_useful"></span><span class="anchor" id="It's_useful/useless"></span><span class="anchor" id="ITSUSEFUL"></span><span class="anchor" id="USEFUL"></span><span class="anchor" id="USELESS"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="It's_useful/useless"><span id="It.27s_useful.2Fuseless"></span>It's useful/useless</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: It's useful/useless"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ITSIMPORTANT"></span><span id="WP:USEFUL"></span><span id="WP:WEDONTNEEDIT"></span><span id="WP:VALUABLE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ITSIMPORTANT&redirect=no">WP:ITSIMPORTANT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:USEFUL&redirect=no">WP:USEFUL</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WEDONTNEEDIT&redirect=no">WP:WEDONTNEEDIT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:VALUABLE&redirect=no">WP:VALUABLE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Example:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> This isn't encyclopedic content, but it's still useful. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Usefulisgood</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 05:05, 5 May 2010 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b>: This article is for a really good cause...it is about a charitable group that is trying to save children –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">SaveTheKids!Please!</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>) 18:11, 8 June 2014 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b>: No one is going to use this content, so we don't need it. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Judgmental</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:03, 3 March 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b>: The government of Utopistan notes that military information on this article helps insurgents to plan attacks. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">SaveTheTroops!Please!</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 06:17, 22 May 2011 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, so it should include encyclopedic content. All encyclopedic content should be useful to someone, but not all content useful to someone is encyclopedic. Stating that something is useful in a vacuum does not help assess its encyclopedic value. You need to say <em>why</em> something is useful or useless. This way, other editors can judge whether it's useful <i>and</i> encyclopedic according to Wikipedia's policies. Arguments of something's usefulness, uselessness, or value devoid of further context are not valid or persuasive. </p><p>A list of all phone numbers in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> would be useful, but <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_directory" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">Wikipedia is not a directory</a>. A page defining the word <i>useful</i> would be useful, but <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_dictionary" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary">Wikipedia is not a dictionary</a>; we have <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary" title="Wiktionary">Wiktionary</a> for <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/useful" class="extiw" title="wikt:useful">that</a>. A guide to the best restaurants in <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> would be useful, but <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_an_indiscriminate_collection_of_information" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">Wikipedia is not a travel guide</a>; we have <a href="/wiki/Wikivoyage" title="Wikivoyage">Wikivoyage</a> for that. </p><p>Usefulness is subjective, and a cogent argument must be more specific: who is the content useful for, and why? One has to consider the number of people that are likely to find utility in the information. In particular, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:When_to_use_tables" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:When to use tables">tables</a> are meant to provide information of direct utility for the reader. In addition, one must consider utility as relating to the rest of the site: e.g. "this list brings together related topics in X, and is useful for navigating that subject." </p><p>There are some pages within Wikipedia that are supposed to be useful navigation tools and nothing more—<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DISAMBIG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DISAMBIG">disambiguation</a> pages, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization" title="Wikipedia:Categorization">categories</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:R" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:R">redirects</a>, for instance—so usefulness is the basis of their inclusion; for these types of pages, usefulness is a valid argument. </p><p>Building a solid case for deletion on the basis of uselessness is unlikely because of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">Wikipedia's notability policy</a>. All of this project's notability criteria imply that knowledge about a subject that meets them is useful. Whether it's through substantial coverage in reliable sources, receipt of major awards, winning international competitions, or writing oft-cited scientific papers, we can infer that <i>somebody</i> has found the subject to be of substantial interest. Therefore, if information about a subject is genuinely of no use here, the better bet is to argue against inclusion on the grounds of a lack of notability. </p><p>Wikipedia is not the place to seek publicity for a cause, product, individual, ideology, etc. Promotional or partisan "information" in particular generally fails Wikipedia's requirements of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">neutrality</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiability</a>. See also <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:INDISCRIMINATE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:INDISCRIMINATE">WP:INDISCRIMINATE</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOBLECAUSE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOBLECAUSE">WP:NOBLECAUSE</a>. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="It_does_not_do_any_harm"></span><span class="anchor" id="It_is_harmless"></span><span class="anchor" id="It's_harmless"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="It's_harmful/harmless"><span id="It.27s_harmful.2Fharmless"></span>It's harmful/harmless</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: It's harmful/harmless"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"WP:NOHARM" redirects here. You may be looking for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoiding_harm" title="Wikipedia:Avoiding harm">WP:Avoiding harm</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:NOHARM"></span><span id="WP:HARMLESS"></span><span id="WP:NOGOOD"></span><span id="WP:DOESN&#039;THARM"></span><span id="WP:HURT"></span><span id="WP:HARMFUL"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOHARM&redirect=no">WP:NOHARM</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:HARMLESS&redirect=no">WP:HARMLESS</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOGOOD&redirect=no">WP:NOGOOD</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:DOESN%27THARM&redirect=no">WP:DOESN'THARM</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:HURT&redirect=no">WP:HURT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:HARMFUL&redirect=no">WP:HARMFUL</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> Why delete this, it is not harming anyone. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Hippocrates2</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 05:05, 6 June 2006 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> This article is very harmful to many people. Get rid of this now! –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">BiographyPolice</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 15:01, 5 September 2013 (UTC)</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTCENSORED" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTCENSORED">No content on Wikipedia is censored</a>. Just because an article does not directly hurt anyone does not mean the article should be kept. For example, if there has not been any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiable</a> information published in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable sources</a> about the subject, then there is no way to check whether the information in the article is true, and it may damage the reputation of the subject and the project. Even if it <i>is</i> true, without the ability to check it, false information could very well start to seep in. </p><p>As for articles that do not conform to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Principles" title="Wikipedia:Principles">our basic tenets</a> (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiability</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">notability</a>, and using <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable sources</a>), keeping them actually can do more harm than one realizes – it sets a precedent that dictates that literally anything can go here. (See below for that.) </p><p>But the purpose of an encyclopedia is to provide information: the potential readership or subjective usefulness of each item does not have to be justified if the material is notable. </p><p>The "it does not do any harm" claim and its rebuttal are at the center of the philosophical editing debate of inclusionism versus deletionism. For more information and arguments, see the Meta articles <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inclusionism" class="extiw" title="m:Inclusionism">Inclusionism</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deletionism" class="extiw" title="m:Deletionism">Deletionism</a>. </p><p>Note that in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:MFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:MFD">miscellany for deletion</a> debates, whether or not something is harmful is often a relevant issue, since the rules provide that inherently disruptive pages, for instance, may be deleted. The argument "it's not hurting anything" is less persuasive, however, when <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOT">WP:NOT</a> clearly prohibits the content in question (e.g. a full-fledged blog in userspace) from being hosted here. </p><p>Whether something is harmful or harmless are also valid arguments for and against deletion of redirects at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion">Redirects for discussion</a>. This normally centres around harm (or lack of) to the encyclopedia, e.g. from a redirect being misleading or in the way of other content. See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion#When_should_we_delete_a_redirect?" title="Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion">Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion#When should we delete a redirect?</a>. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="It_is_funny"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="It's_funny"><span id="It.27s_funny"></span>It's funny</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: It's funny"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ITSFUNNY"></span><span id="WP:LULZ"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ITSFUNNY&redirect=no">WP:ITSFUNNY</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:LULZ&redirect=no">WP:LULZ</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> This article is hilarious. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">ComedyExpert</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> This article is hilarious. Obviously unencyclopedic!!!! –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Meta-Parliamentarian</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Wikipedia is not a repository of humor. Articles cannot be kept for their humor value alone, nor are they outright disqualified because they are on a topic an editor finds humorous. Furthermore, the intensely subjective nature of humor means that it can never be used as an indicator of worth in an encyclopedia where the merits of an article are determined by objective criteria (what is funny to one person may be dull and uninteresting to another; and perhaps downright offensive to a third.) This does not mean articles on humor-related topics have no place on Wikipedia, as the <a href="/wiki/Category:Humour" title="Category:Humour">"Humour" category</a> shows, and even <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles" title="Wikipedia:Unusual articles">unintentionally funny articles</a> are welcome. Articles should be kept or rejected because of ideas such as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">notability</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiability</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOR">lack of original research</a> – not because they meet an editor's subjective view of humor. There are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Silly_Things" title="Wikipedia:Silly Things">more appropriate places</a>, even on Wikipedia, than in the article space. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="I_don't_get_it"><span id="I_don.27t_get_it"></span>I don't get it</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: I don't get it"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Examples</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> What does this joke even mean? I can't understand modern humor. -<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Humor Critic</a> 10:37, 9 January 1022 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Wikipedia is not a place for you to judge other people's humor. Articles cannot be deleted because of your view on humor, nor can they usually be created as such, even under the <a href="/wiki/Category:Humor" title="Category:Humor">"Humor" category</a>. Some articles can be created because of someone's view of humor, but these are usually created as sarcastic essays. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="It_looks_good/bad"><span id="It_looks_good.2Fbad"></span>It looks good/bad</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: It looks good/bad"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:PRETTY"></span><span id="WP:LOOKSGOOD"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PRETTY&redirect=no">WP:PRETTY</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:LOOKSGOOD&redirect=no">WP:LOOKSGOOD</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> Very nice format and design, esp. the use of multicolour layout –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Bauhaus11:0</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 05:37, 27 May 2015 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> There is nothing in this article but text -<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">UseImages98</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 05:47, 27 May 2015 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>While it is certainly a good thing for Wikipedia articles to be aesthetically pleasing or well laid out from a graphic design perspective, the mere appearance of an article is not a factor in whether the subject of the article is justifiably suitable for an article on Wikipedia. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Surmountable_problems">Surmountable problems</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Surmountable problems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_is_not_cleanup" title="Wikipedia:Deletion is not cleanup">WP:Deletion is not cleanup</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:SURMOUNTABLE"></span><span id="WP:PROBLEM"></span><span id="WP:AFDNOTCLEANUP"></span><span id="WP:AFDISNOTCLEANUP"></span><span id="WP:DELETIONISNOTCLEANUP"></span><span id="WP:DELETIONNOTCLEANUP"></span><span id="WP:NOTCLEANUP"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:SURMOUNTABLE&redirect=no">WP:SURMOUNTABLE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PROBLEM&redirect=no">WP:PROBLEM</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:AFDNOTCLEANUP&redirect=no">WP:AFDNOTCLEANUP</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:AFDISNOTCLEANUP&redirect=no">WP:AFDISNOTCLEANUP</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:DELETIONISNOTCLEANUP&redirect=no">WP:DELETIONISNOTCLEANUP</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:DELETIONNOTCLEANUP&redirect=no">WP:DELETIONNOTCLEANUP</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOTCLEANUP&redirect=no">WP:NOTCLEANUP</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p>A common maxim is that "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion">Articles for Deletion</a> is not cleanup". Consider that Wikipedia is a work in progress and articles should not be deleted as punishment because no one has felt like cleaning them up <i>yet</i>. Remember, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_no_deadline" title="Wikipedia:There is no deadline">Wikipedia has no deadline</a>. If there's good, eventually sourceable, content in the article, it should be developed and improved, not deleted. (If there is <i>no</i> usable content, however, it may well be best to delete.) </p><p><b>Note:</b> The question on whether a poor but improvable article ought to be deleted has been a major point of contention, and has given rise to the wiki-philosophies <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/immediatism" class="extiw" title="m:immediatism">immediatism</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/eventualism" class="extiw" title="m:eventualism">eventualism</a>. However, some articles do reach the so-called <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TNT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TNT">TNT tipping point</a>: an article should exist, but the article (and all the versions in history) is too deeply flawed to work from. When that point is reached, deletion provides a reset, and gives editors a clean slate. This in itself is a controversial maxim, as essays such as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TNTTNT" title="Wikipedia:TNTTNT">WP:TNTTNT</a> demonstrate. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="Badly_written_article"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poorly_written_article">Poorly written article</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Poorly written article"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:RUBBISH"></span><span id="WP:UGLY"></span><span id="WP:LOUSYTITLE"></span><span id="WP:ITSUNREFERENCED"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:RUBBISH&redirect=no">WP:RUBBISH</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:UGLY&redirect=no">WP:UGLY</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:LOUSYTITLE&redirect=no">WP:LOUSYTITLE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ITSUNREFERENCED&redirect=no">WP:ITSUNREFERENCED</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> Article is messy and poorly laid out. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">LostWillToFix</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:17, 20 June 2009 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> It's not referenced properly –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Lazy1</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:01, 1 January 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Half the article is in Spanish! <a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">MonoLingual</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:01, 1 January 2008 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>In the Wiki model, an article which may <i>currently</i> be poorly written, poorly formatted, lack sufficient sources, or not be a comprehensive overview of the subject, can be improved and rewritten to fix its current flaws. That such an article is lacking in certain areas is a relatively minor problem, and such articles can still be of benefit to Wikipedia. In other words, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_is_not_cleanup" title="Wikipedia:Deletion is not cleanup">the remedy for such an article is cleanup, <i>not</i> deletion</a>. </p><p>By the same token, asserting that an article merely needs improvement to withstand a deletion nomination is not a persuasive argument to retain it. Perhaps improvement in the form of adding multiple references to reliable, independent, non-trivial discussion of the subject would indeed demonstrate its notability, but asserting that an article "needs improvement, not deletion" is not the same as providing evidence of such a possibility. </p><p>Some articles have well-written text and references. But the one thing poor about them is the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARTICLETITLE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARTICLETITLE">title</a>. There is a simple solution to this: rename it! If you are not able to move the article yourself for one reason or another, request someone else do it rather than nominate the whole article for deletion. </p><p>With that said, if an article is so bad that it is <i>harmful</i> in its current state, then deleting now, and possibly recreating it later, remains an option. For example, problems like <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:COPYRIGHT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:COPYRIGHT">copyright infringement</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SPAM" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SPAM">advertising</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NONSENSE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NONSENSE">patent nonsense</a>, or unsourced negative statements in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LIVING" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LIVING">biographies of living people</a>, need to be resolved as quickly as possible. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="There_must_be_sources"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Offline_sources_only">Offline sources only</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Offline sources only"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Offline_sources" title="Wikipedia:Offline sources">WP:Offline sources</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:PAPERONLY"></span><span id="WP:OSO"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PAPERONLY&redirect=no">WP:PAPERONLY</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:OSO&redirect=no">WP:OSO</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span><br /> <i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> With only offline sources given, there is no <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PROVEIT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PROVEIT">proof</a> that this is not a hoax. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">The Secret Keeper</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> All the sources given have fallen victim to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LINKROT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LINKROT">linkrot</a>. Therefore, we have no way of knowing about this. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Evidence Destroyed</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> The book sources don't have any <a href="/wiki/ISBN" title="ISBN">ISBNs</a>, so they must be fake. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">IAmANumber</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>On Wikipedia, we <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AGF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AGF">assume good faith</a>. <i>There is no distinction between using online versus offline sources.</i> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OFFLINE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OFFLINE">Offline sources</a> are just as legitimate as those that are accessible to everyone online. If offline sources, even exclusively offline sources, are used to reference an article, we give the creator (and other contributors) the benefit of the doubt in accepting their accuracy. Since Wikipedia is written collaboratively, it is always possible for other editors to add online sources on top of the offline ones already there. However, this is not a requirement, and they need not exist to sustain the article. </p><p>If an editor seeking deletion believes the creator placed <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAKE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FAKE">fictitious references</a> in the article to make a hoax seem legitimate, the burden of proof is on the one seeking deletion. This will only occur with definitive proof or knowledge that these sources are really fictitious, and not based simply on a hunch. As with the offline sources themselves, online proof that they do not exist is not needed. Good faith is assumed just as much if the editor seeking deletion knows beyond a reasonable doubt that the source does not exist or does not state what is in the article. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nobody's_working_on_it_(or_impatience_with_improvement)"><span id="Nobody.27s_working_on_it_.28or_impatience_with_improvement.29"></span>Nobody's working on it (or impatience with improvement)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Nobody's working on it (or impatience with improvement)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:NOEFFORT"></span><span id="WP:NEGLECT"></span><span id="WP:IMPATIENT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOEFFORT&redirect=no">WP:NOEFFORT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NEGLECT&redirect=no">WP:NEGLECT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:IMPATIENT&redirect=no">WP:IMPATIENT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_on_discussion_pages#Nobody's_working_on_it_(or_impatience_with_improvement)" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid on discussion pages">WP:Arguments to avoid on discussion pages § Nobody's working on it (or impatience with improvement)</a></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> Article has been here for 2 years and is still a stub! –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">TheyDidntWork</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> I gave them six months for someone to add cites, they didn't, and I have lost my patience. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">My Way or the Highway</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:33, 12 October 2010 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Creator has totally neglected this article –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Plant and run</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> This is not the first, not the second, but the tenth time I put this up for deletion, all because the problems were not solved. Each time, User:WantItKept promised they would improve it after the discussion was closed. But that never happened. And User:WantItKept keeps reneging on his promise.<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Last straw was long ago</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> We've been waiting 10 long years for this article to improve. By now we know it'll never happen, and we can all agree this article doesn't belong.<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Time to give up</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> I really promise I'll improve it, I just have no time now to explain how.<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">WantItKept</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Sometimes an article is nominated for deletion that is not being worked on very much, or has not been edited by a person for a long time, and thus might not be in very good shape. This does not necessarily mean that the topic is unsuitable for Wikipedia; it may be that the topic is obscure or difficult to write about. An article should be assessed based on whether it has a realistic <i>potential</i> for expansion, not how frequently it has been edited to date. Remember that <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_no_deadline" title="Wikipedia:There is no deadline">there is no deadline</a>. </p><p>The article shouldn't be deleted for its current status only because no one has improved it yet. Such deletion would <i>prevent</i> editors from improving it in the future. Conversely it's not enough to promise to make the article better; editors should explain how to do it. If the editor fails to follow through on the promise, other editors who arrive later can step in and keep improving it. This way, the article's fate is not dependent on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTMANDATORY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTMANDATORY">one single editor doing the work</a>; Wikipedia is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WIP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WIP">written in a collaborative way</a>. </p><p>A variation of this is a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:POINT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:POINT">WP:POINT</a>: an editor wants an article <i>improved</i> but lacks the time or skills to actually improve it, so the article is nominated for deletion in the hope that another editor will take notice and improve the article during its pending deletion period and before the artificial deadline of the deletion process. </p><p>In some other cases, especially list articles describing a finite set, the article may already be complete and current. Such an article thus hasn't been worked on in X amount of time because there's nothing that <i>needs</i> to be added to it at the present time. </p><p>Not all articles on Wikipedia look perfect. Most readers on Wikipedia already know they won't get all the information they are looking for from Wikipedia alone. Even if an article is not the best, even if it remains that way for many years, it can still provide some readers with just what they're looking for, and this is enough to make it worthy. </p><p>The concept of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OWN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OWN">ownership of articles</a> is typically thought of to oppose a creator's rights to have it their own way. It can also be extended to say that once an article has been created and it meets inclusion guidelines, the creator has no obligation thereafter to maintain the article. Therefore, if one creates an article that appears to meet guidelines for a standalone article, but abandons any effort to complete or update it thereafter, regardless of whether that editor has been actively editing on Wikipedia, the article cannot be deleted on these grounds. </p><p>When the article is a very badly-written article on a small aspect of a bigger field, removing unverifiable content and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Stubbing" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Stubbing">stubbing</a> the article, or redirecting some of the articles after merging any useful content to a more general article, are better choices than deleting. </p><p><b>Exceptions:</b> </p> <ul><li>Articles that are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SPEEDY#G11._Unambiguous_advertising_or_promotion" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SPEEDY">unambiguous advertising or promotion may be speedy deleted</a>; less unambiguous cases might well be deleted at articles for deletion, if there is little to no content worth saving.</li> <li>While these sorts of arguments may not be good arguments for deletion, they are excellent arguments for a merge in cases where an excessive number of subarticles exists. <b>Merge</b> is a perfectly acceptable !vote in a deletion discussion.</li></ul> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1033199720">.mw-parser-output div.crossreference{padding-left:0}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">See also: <ul><li><a href="#Past_inaction_by_editors">§ Past inaction by editors</a> – the related fallacy that the article must not be sourceable or otherwise fixable if it hasn't been done already.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_on_discussion_pages#Nobody's_working_on_it_(or_impatience_with_improvement)" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid on discussion pages">WP:Arguments to avoid on discussion pages § Nobody's working on it (or impatience with improvement)</a> – the general version, not specific to deletion.</li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Orphan_status">Orphan status</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Orphan status"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ORPHS"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ORPHS&redirect=no">WP:ORPHS</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> Is an orphan. No articles link to this one, and probably none ever can or will. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Foster Parent</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Is part of a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WALL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WALL">walled garden</a>. This is a group of articles that has no relation to anything else on Wikipedia, so Wikipedia has no place for them. We should delete them all. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Berlin</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:29, 9 November 1989 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>An article being an <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Orphan" title="Wikipedia:Orphan">orphan</a> (having few or no incoming links) can pose some problems. But it does not imply a lack of notability, and therefore is not a valid reason for exclusion. An orphan is still capable of having reliable sources, and many do. </p><p>De-orphaning articles and providing incoming links is a goal in improving the encyclopedia, not a requirement. Many orphans were created by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NEWBIE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NEWBIE">newbies</a> who are not familiar with the need to add references or to create incoming links. Some subjects are just very hard to link from anything. If reliable sources can be provided, even if incoming links can't, it is still notable. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Out_of_date">Out of date</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Out of date"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:OUTDATED"></span><span id="WP:UPTODATE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:OUTDATED&redirect=no">WP:OUTDATED</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:UPTODATE&redirect=no">WP:UPTODATE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> because this article is very much out of date. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Last Year's Edition</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:29, 1 January 2020 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Information changes so often, it is impossible to keep up to date. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Scoreboard</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_a_work_in_progress" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a work in progress">Wikipedia is a work-in-progress encyclopedia</a>, which means that it is not finished nor will it ever be. As in a paper encyclopedia, information on Wikipedia will often become inaccurate because it is simply out of date. But unlike a paper encyclopedia, in which a new edition is printed maybe every year or so, Wikipedia can be updated anytime. There is a very simple solution to all that: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BEBOLD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BEBOLD">Change it</a>! All you have to do is to click "edit", make the necessary changes, and save the changes, writing in the edit summary that you are updating the information. If you do not wish to make the effort to do that yourself but you know it needs to be done, you can also place <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Update" title="Template:Update">update</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> on the top of the page or section. To consider a page for deletion on the basis that it is not up to date is to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DEMOLISH" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DEMOLISH">demolish the house while it is being built</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Susceptibility_to_policy_violations">Susceptibility to policy violations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Susceptibility to policy violations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:LIKELYVIOLATION"></span><span id="WP:SUSCEPTIBLE"></span><span id="WP:SUSC"></span><span id="WP:EASYTARGET"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:LIKELYVIOLATION&redirect=no">WP:LIKELYVIOLATION</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:SUSCEPTIBLE&redirect=no">WP:SUSCEPTIBLE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:SUSC&redirect=no">WP:SUSC</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:EASYTARGET&redirect=no">WP:EASYTARGET</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> Article is likely to be vandalised a lot. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Graffiti Wall</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Has such a long history of vandalism that has made it an embarrassment to Wikipedia. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Tarnished</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> There is a constant edit war going on here. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">We Just Disagree</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> An article about this will never meet Wikipedia's neutrality guidelines because there is so much controversy surrounding it. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Abortion Clinic</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> So many people hate this person that a fair article free of BLP violations is impossible. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Already Judged</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> Vandals and sockpuppets will just keep on re-creating the article if it's deleted. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">WhackAMole</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> The canvassing campaign has made it impossible to get consensus on this. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">MurkyWater</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Wikipedia has remedies in place to tackle its policy violation issues. Vandals, sock puppets, and edit warriors can be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BLOCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BLOCK">blocked</a>. Articles can be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PADLOCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PADLOCK">protected</a>. Sock puppets and canvassers can be traced. Templates can be placed on a page to let readers and editors know how it has to be fixed. If inaccurate information is frequently added erroneously but <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AGF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AGF">in good faith</a>, this can be discussed until a consensus is reached. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="It's_not_neutral"><span id="It.27s_not_neutral"></span>It's not neutral</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: It's not neutral"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ITSNOTNEUTRAL"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ITSNOTNEUTRAL&redirect=no">WP:ITSNOTNEUTRAL</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>The fact a subject is not neutrally presented is not a valid reason for deletion. The solution for lack of neutrality is to fix the article, not delete it. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Just_not_notable_(I've_never_heard_of_merger_or_redirection)"><span id="Just_not_notable_.28I.27ve_never_heard_of_merger_or_redirection.29"></span>Just not notable (I've never heard of merger or redirection)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Just not notable (I've never heard of merger or redirection)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:IGNORINGATD"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:IGNORINGATD&redirect=no">WP:IGNORINGATD</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> Non-notable – <a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">I don't like redirects</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:01, 24 April 2010 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Fails N and all relevant SNG –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Who cares about ATD?</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 06:14, 24 April 2010 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>The fact that a topic is not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">notable</a> is not, in and of itself, valid grounds for deleting a page, its content, or its history. If merger and/or redirection is feasible in a given case, either is preferable to deletion. To validly argue for deletion, editors need to additionally advance separate arguments against <i>both</i> merger and redirection, on relevant grounds. (Since "merger" includes a history merge without redirection, an argument against redirection is not an argument against merger). Since any verifiable topic/content can in principle be redirected/merged to an article on a broader topic, this should be exceptionally difficult. Valid arguments against merger might be based on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">WP:V</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOR">WP:NOR</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOT">WP:NOT</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BLP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BLP">WP:BLP</a>, in particular. (In some cases it might be a prerequisite requirement to transwiki the page first). Valid arguments against redirection must be based on the criteria specified in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:R" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:R">WP:R</a> (that the proposed redirect is clearly positively harmful). The only valid argument for "delete then redirect" is that every revision in the page history of the page otherwise eligible for redirection in question meets the criteria for revision deletion (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:REVDEL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:REVDEL">WP:REVDEL</a>). See further <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ATD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ATD">WP:ATD</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notability_fallacies">Notability fallacies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Notability fallacies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Existence">Existence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Existence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ITEXISTS"></span><span id="WP:ITEXIST"></span><span id="WP:BUTITEXISTS"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ITEXISTS&redirect=no">WP:ITEXISTS</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ITEXIST&redirect=no">WP:ITEXIST</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BUTITEXISTS&redirect=no">WP:BUTITEXISTS</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Existence_%E2%89%A0_Notability" title="Wikipedia:Existence ≠ Notability">WP:Existence ≠ Notability</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Existence_does_not_prove_notability" title="Wikipedia:Existence does not prove notability">WP:Existence does not prove notability</a></div> <p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> It is not a hoax. It is truly real. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">DavidH</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 04:04, 4 April 2006 (UTC)<br /></li> <li><b>Keep</b> There is no doubt that the band exists...there are 3 local newspaper articles about their show dates, plus they have a MySpace page. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">LoveGarageBandz</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 04:04, 4 April 2006 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> It is common household vocabulary what a spray stick is. Of course there should be an article about it. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Everyone knows Mr. Fresh</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 04:04, 4 April 2006 (UTC)<br /></li> <li><b>Keep</b> I know lots about this subject, so it must be notable. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Know-it-all</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 04:04 4 April 2006 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> He has 10,000 subscribers on YouTube, so we don't need reliable sources because a lot of people want to know more about him. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">YouTube Is The World</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 07:09, 9 June 2018 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> This slipped through the cracks and never got media coverage at all, so using its own self-published documentation is the only way we can rescue it from obscurity. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">FixingTheOversights</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 15:45, 7 March 2018 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Existence is important. The main purpose of the requirement to have all articles and information drawn from identifiable sources (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">WP:V</a>) is to prove that everything is true and accurate. But <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ENN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ENN">mere existence does not automatically make a subject worthy of inclusion</a>. There are various other guidelines that must be met, mostly found in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">WP:N</a>. But it goes beyond that. If we wrote articles for everything that existed, we would end up writing about you, or your computer, or that leaf that fell in your pool the other day, or even that rock that keeps tripping you up on your morning walks. The last one was kind of ridiculous, but hopefully you understand what we are trying to say here: existence does not always yield notability! </p><p>As for the lack of existence, there are rare cases when this can be notable. There have, for example, been hoaxes which attained notability <i>because</i> they were hoaxes, such as <a href="/wiki/Piltdown_Man" title="Piltdown Man">Piltdown Man</a>. </p><p>A related phenomenon is the fallacy of entitlement: the notion that mere existence automatically entitles someone or something to a Wikipedia article, and thus the need to create an article is so important that any form of sourcing is acceptable regardless of whether or not it meets <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable sourcing</a> standards. However, Wikipedia's role is not to be about everything, or to help under-covered topics create their media presence. We are not a free public relations platform to advertise topics that haven't already received media attention — our role here is to follow media coverage, not to lead it. Before addressing "how can this topic get into Wikipedia if it doesn't have media coverage yet?", the question "why does this topic have to get into Wikipedia?" must be answered. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Google_test">Google test</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Google test"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:LOTSOFGHITS"></span><span id="WP:GOOGLEHITS"></span><span id="WP:YAHOOHITS"></span><span id="WP:BINGHITS"></span><span id="WP:GHITS"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:LOTSOFGHITS&redirect=no">WP:LOTSOFGHITS</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:GOOGLEHITS&redirect=no">WP:GOOGLEHITS</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:YAHOOHITS&redirect=no">WP:YAHOOHITS</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BINGHITS&redirect=no">WP:BINGHITS</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:GHITS&redirect=no">WP:GHITS</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Search_engine_test#General" title="Wikipedia:Search engine test">Wikipedia:Search engine test § General</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Google_searches_and_numbers" title="Wikipedia:Google searches and numbers">Wikipedia:Google searches and numbers</a></div> <p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> It has 345,400 Google hits, so it is clearly of interest. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">GoogleBoy</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 04:04, 4 April 2009 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> She's the first Google result for her name, so obviously she's important. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">FirstIsBest</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 04:04, 4 April 2009 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Zero Google hits, must be a hoax. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">MustBeAHoax</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 04:04, 4 April 2009 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Zero Google hits, so even if she is a tenured professor at Harvard, she must be non-notable. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">GoogleMeasuresWorth</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 04:04, 4 April 2009 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> A Google Books search returned no hits, so must be non-notable –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">PrintIsDead</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 04:04, 4 April 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Although using a search engine like <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> can be useful in determining how common or well-known a particular topic is, a large number of hits on a search engine is no guarantee that the subject is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia. Similarly, a lack of search engine hits may only indicate that the topic is highly specialized or not generally sourceable via the internet. For instance, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BIO" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BIO">WP:BIO</a> specifically states, <i>Avoid criteria based on search engine statistics (e.g., Google hits or Alexa ranking)</i>. One would not expect to find thousands of hits on an <a href="/wiki/Vanat%C3%BChi" class="mw-redirect" title="Vanatühi">ancient Estonian god</a>. </p><p>The search-engine test <i>may</i>, however, be useful as a negative test of popular culture topics which one would expect to see sourced via the Internet. A search on an alleged "Internet meme" that returns only one or two distinct sources is a reasonable indication that the topic is not as notable as has been claimed. As well, numerous hits that refer to X as "Y" can demonstrate that "Y" is a plausible redirect to the article on X; the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RFD">redirects for discussion</a> process, unlike articles for deletion, will often hinge on matters such as plausibility and numbers of search engine results. </p><p>Overall, the <i>quality</i> of the search engine results matters more than the raw number. A more detailed description of the problems that can be encountered using a search engine to determine suitability can be found at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Search_engine_test" title="Wikipedia:Search engine test">WP:Search engine test</a>. </p><p>Note further that searches using Google's specialty tools, such as <a href="/wiki/Google_Books" title="Google Books">Google Books</a>, <a href="/wiki/Google_Scholar" title="Google Scholar">Google Scholar</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Google_News" title="Google News">Google News</a>, are more likely to return <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable sources</a> that can be useful in improving articles than the default Google <i>web</i> search. However, since an article can be verified as notable entirely by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OFFLINE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OFFLINE">offline sources</a> such as books and newspapers, a lack of search results there is not proof in itself that an article should be kept or deleted. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="This_number_is_big"></span><span class="anchor" id="This_number_is_big_or_not_big_enough"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Article_age">Article age</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Article age"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ARTICLEAGE"></span><span id="WP:LONGTIME"></span><span id="WP:NEWARTICLE"></span><span id="WP:OLDARTICLE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ARTICLEAGE&redirect=no">WP:ARTICLEAGE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:LONGTIME&redirect=no">WP:LONGTIME</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NEWARTICLE&redirect=no">WP:NEWARTICLE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:OLDARTICLE&redirect=no">WP:OLDARTICLE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"WP:NEWARTICLE" redirects here. For a step-by-step process to create an article, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_wizard" title="Wikipedia:Article wizard">WP:Article wizard</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_on_discussion_pages#Unchallenged_material_(or_content_age)" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid on discussion pages">WP:Arguments to avoid on discussion pages § Unchallenged material (or content age)</a></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep.</b> Article has existed since 2004. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Age Before Beauty</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:10, 1 January 2010 (UTC)<br /></li> <li><b>Keep.</b> Article was only created yesterday, I'm still working on it! –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Think of the New Articles</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:10, 25 May 2010 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Article is brand new, has not stood the test of time –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Catch22</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:10, 1 January 2010 (UTC)<br /></li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Inclusion_is_not_an_indicator_of_notability" title="Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability">Inclusion is not an indicator of notability</a>. Take, for example, Gaius Flavius Antoninus, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia/Gaius_Flavius_Antoninus" title="Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/Gaius Flavius Antoninus">a hoax article</a> that lasted for more than eight years before getting discovered and deleted. Having survived a long time on Wikipedia does not guarantee the article a permanent spot. The article may have achieved its age either because its lack of notability was not discovered until recently, or because the collective interpretation of our inclusion criteria has evolved. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CCC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CCC">Consensus can change</a>, and an article that was once accepted under Wikipedia's guidelines or just by de facto practice could be put up for deletion. </p><p>However, note that the fact that an article has not been edited in a long time is also not grounds for deletion, as <a href="#Nobody's_working_on_it_(or_impatience_with_improvement)">explained above</a>. </p><p>Conversely, being a new creation does not protect an article from being nominated for deletion. All articles have to comply with our inclusion policies from the moment they are created; if an article is not suitable for Wikipedia it will be deleted, regardless of how new it is. Remember that <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WIP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WIP">all articles are works in progress</a>, and this is not by itself reason to keep an article. It is recommended to work on a new article in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Drafts" title="Wikipedia:Drafts">draft space</a> or in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:USER" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:USER">userspace</a> before moving it into mainspace, to avoid it being nominated for deletion in an obviously unfinished state. </p><p>However, note also that the current low quality of an article is also not a reason to delete it, as <a href="#Poorly_written_article">explained above</a>. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:POTENTIAL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:POTENTIAL">Articles should be judged on their potential, not just current state</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Subject_age"><span id="Subject_age"></span> Subject age</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Subject age"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:OLDSUBJECT"></span><span id="WP:ITSOLD"></span><span id="WP:NEWSUBJECT"></span><span id="WP:ITSTOONEW"></span><span id="WP:NEWCOMPANY"></span><span id="WP:NEWORG"></span><span id="WP:JUSTASTARTUP"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:OLDSUBJECT&redirect=no">WP:OLDSUBJECT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ITSOLD&redirect=no">WP:ITSOLD</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NEWSUBJECT&redirect=no">WP:NEWSUBJECT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ITSTOONEW&redirect=no">WP:ITSTOONEW</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NEWCOMPANY&redirect=no">WP:NEWCOMPANY</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NEWORG&redirect=no">WP:NEWORG</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:JUSTASTARTUP&redirect=no">WP:JUSTASTARTUP</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><i>Examples</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> – It's a new company/startup, so it can't be notable.<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example"><i>NewCompanyNoGood</i></a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:10, 1 January 2010 (UTC)<br /></li> <li><b>Keep</b> This fence post has been standing for more than two hundred years— anything this old is certainly notable. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example"><i>BetterWithAge</i></a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 09:10, 1 January 2016 (UTC)<br /></li> <li><b>Keep</b> This company has been teaching people to dance like a sandhill crane since before I was born. A tradition of so many years becomes an institution after this long. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example"><i>OldFeet</i></a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:10, 4 February 2015 (UTC)<br /></li> <li><b>Delete</b> Any performer who hasn't been doing stage shows for at least six months can't possibly have achieved notability yet. She has no fan base, and no agent. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example"><i>Incredulitiousness</i></a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 07:30, 17 March 2015 (UTC)<br /></li> <li><b>Delete</b> This ink in this book isn't even dry yet— shouldn't we give it more of a chance to prove itself before we have an article on it? –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example"><i>WetBehindTheEars</i></a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:10, 1 January 2010 (UTC)<br /></li></ul> <p>These arguments are analogous to those above with regard to article age. Notability is not established by how long a thing has existed, or how far back in time a tradition may go, or how venerable the people are who are involved in it, or how yellowed the pages that once mentioned it. Neither can notability be denied based on the subject's newness, inexperience, or youth. The criteria for notability include evidence of the non-trivial discussion of the subject in multiple reliable verifiable independent secondary sources. Assertions based on age or evidence of age are, by themselves, as meaningless as those based on personal knowledge or on dislike of the subject matter. Certainly what is old has had more chance to be noted, and what is new generally has not. But we do not decide which articles to keep and which to delete based on chances, we base it on the quality and nature of its citations. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Subject_no_longer_exists">Subject no longer exists</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Subject no longer exists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:DEFUNCT"></span><span id="WP:OUTOFBUSINESS"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:DEFUNCT&redirect=no">WP:DEFUNCT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:OUTOFBUSINESS&redirect=no">WP:OUTOFBUSINESS</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> IntraState Airlines just went belly-up. Therefore, we should delete the article about it. -<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Liquid8R</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:35, 11 October 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> The full citation proves it, Rise and <b>Fall</b> of the Third Reich. -<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">WeRemember</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:35, 11 October 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Rapid Racers went out of business more than 20 years ago. Why then should we have an article -<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">No One Remembers</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:35, 11 October 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> FadCo has discontinued the SuperWax Doodlies line -<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Get-A-Life</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:35, 11 October 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> The Big Banger has not had a hit record for more than 10 years now -<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Out of print</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:35, 11 October 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Victorianville has been wiped off the map and is now the site of a strip mine -<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Ghost Town</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:35, 11 October 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> FunHouse is out of business now. It is a safe bet that an article about them is not an advertisement. -<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Honorable Mention</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:35, 11 October 2008 (UTC)</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NTEMP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NTEMP">Notability is not temporary</a>. The continuing existence of an article does not depend on the continuing existence of its subject. Even if it is a thing of the past, if sources can display its notability in the same way as a subject that exists today, then it qualifies no less for an article. It does not matter if the cessation of the subject occurred before or after the creation of the article. Even if <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LINKROT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LINKROT">links to the sources are no longer active</a>, if the writer(s) of the article do the best possible job of documenting what they are, the article shall meet the standards for reliable sources. Wikipedia's goal is not merely to be a directory of things and people that currently exist today –  defunct corporations and ghost towns and dead people can still be notable, and can still have legitimate and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliably sourceable</a> reasons why readers might be looking for information about who and what they were. </p><p>The only way a subject can be truly declared "no longer notable" is if the actual notability guidelines change to exclude the subject. Many of Wikipedia's notability standards are stricter now than they were a decade ago, so some articles that were formerly accepted as notable do fail contemporary standards; <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CCC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CCC">consensus can change</a>, so such articles do not stay "grandfathered" in Wikipedia just because they used to be acceptable, but are deleted (or redirected to a related topic) if they cannot be improved to meet contemporary notability standards. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pageview_stats">Pageview stats</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Pageview stats"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:POPULARPAGE"></span><span id="WP:NOBODYREADSIT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:POPULARPAGE&redirect=no">WP:POPULARPAGE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOBODYREADSIT&redirect=no">WP:NOBODYREADSIT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Help:Pageview_stats" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Pageview stats">Help:Pageview stats</a></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b>, Wikipedia does not need pages some handful of people (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://stats.grok.se/en/200810/Chamb">about 3 per day</a> in this case) might want to find information about. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Trafficdirector</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:35, 11 October 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b>, this is clearly an important list, as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://stats.grok.se/en/201201/List_of_pornographic_actresses_by_decade">almost 14,000 people</a> read it every day, making it Wikipedia's 163rd most popular article. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Penguin enthusiast</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Simply because a page is not of interest to Wikipedia readers does not mean it is not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">notable</a>. Conversely, just because an article is popular does not mean it is within the project scope, although article popularity is likely to correspond with some form of notability which should then be straightforward to verify. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RFD">Redirects for discussion</a> is an exception to this provision; a redirect is more likely to be deleted if it receives very few hits, on the grounds that it is implausible, than if it receives many. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Support_for_article">Support for article</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Support for article"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:SUPPORT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:SUPPORT&redirect=no">WP:SUPPORT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span><br /> </p><p><i>Examples</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> There are more "keeps" than "deletes" –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">OutVoted</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> There is a huge crowd rooting for this article to be kept. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Petition Drive</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> The cause for keeping this has gone viral. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">YouTube Fan</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> This nomination has made the news and been heavily criticized. It would be an embarrassment for Wikipedia to delete it. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Public Appeal</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> 25 people want to have this page deleted. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Down The Well</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> The only people voting "keep" are spammers –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">IDontLikeSpam</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>AfDs are not about <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:VOTE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:VOTE">voting</a>. The outcome of a deletion discussion is determined on the basis of reference to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PG">policies and guidelines</a>, not a simple headcount. If you comment on the basis of the numbers already seen as in the above examples, you are just adding a vote to those numbers and not contributing usefully to the discussion. And drawing others to cast such votes may be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CANVAS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CANVAS">canvassing</a>. </p><p>Many AfDs in the past have had a outcome that contradicts the numbers, and many will in the future. It is possible for an AfD that has 1 keep and 10 deletes to be kept (or vice versa) if that single argument is really good and the remainder are just votes. However, community <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">consensus</a> is frequently taken into consideration when closing the discussion of an article's deletion, and although consensus is not identical to voting, indication of consensus as demonstrated by a large proportion of well-argued votes on one side or the other of a discussion is likely to factor heavily in the final decision. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Number_of_editors_involved">Number of editors involved</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Number of editors involved"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"WP:INVOLVE" redirects here. For policies, guidelines and guidance about users involvement, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Third_opinion" title="Wikipedia:Third opinion">WP:Third opinion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-admin_closure#Editors_who_are_uninvolved" title="Wikipedia:Non-admin closure">WP:Non-admin closure § Editors who are uninvolved</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators#Involved_admins" title="Wikipedia:Administrators">WP:Administrators § Involved admins</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:INVOLVE"></span><span id="WP:PASSEDGA"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:INVOLVE&redirect=no">WP:INVOLVE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PASSEDGA&redirect=no">WP:PASSEDGA</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span><br /> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> Has been edited by lots of people –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Busy at work</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> This is a huge project that many editors care about and work on every day –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Teamwork</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> Surely if this many people have contributed to the subject, someone should know where to find sources –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Who has the secret?</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b>. It passed DYK/GA. That means the subject is notable. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">PeerReviewIsEnough</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Only one person has made all the edits to this page –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">My Personal Article</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> The only editor who ever contributed to this article has not made any edits in 3 years, so if deleted, it'll not be missed –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Who Cares?</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>The number of editors involved may point out the level of interest in the subject, but it does not measure the notability, the number of reliable sources, or its <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOT">compliance with other inclusion guidelines</a>. An article can be made into a good article, either by one person or by a dozen. And <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AMOUNT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AMOUNT">if no reliable sources exist at all, then no matter how many editors they are, they will not be found</a>. </p><p>Articles are not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OWN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OWN">owned</a>, even by their creator, and they are not judged based on who created them, how active that creator is or was on Wikipedia, or how many people besides themselves are interested in editing them. It is not uncommon for an individual to create or edit a single article in their lifetime, all while providing valuable information, and then never edit again. </p><p>Neither the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Did_you_know/Reviewer_instructions" title="Wikipedia:Did you know/Reviewer instructions">DYK</a> process nor the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_criteria#The_six_good_article_criteria" title="Wikipedia:Good article criteria">GA</a> process directly address notability. Experienced editors at both projects may notice a notability issue, and certainly the expectation is that a notability issue will be noticed in both places, but that isn't one of the areas either process directly addresses. In the case of GA, only a single reviewer is generally needed, so even when a reviewer does consider the question of notability, it represents a single person's opinion. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Article_size">Article size</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Article size"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ASZ"></span><span id="WP:PLENTY"></span><span id="WP:TOOLITTLE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ASZ&redirect=no">WP:ASZ</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PLENTY&redirect=no">WP:PLENTY</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:TOOLITTLE&redirect=no">WP:TOOLITTLE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> Article has lots of information on the subject –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Book of Wealth</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> This article provides too little information on the subject –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Flashcard</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Article provides so little information, you can easily recreate it should more information be available –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Come back when you're more mature</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:INDISCRIMINATE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:INDISCRIMINATE">Wikipedia is not a collection of indiscriminate information</a>. An article could have many paragraphs or even pages of information. If any of that information is not and cannot be properly sourced, it does not belong, and if none of it belongs, neither does the article. </p><p>On the other hand, even a small amount of information meeting the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GNG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GNG">general notability guideline</a> can be eligible for inclusion, provided that other inclusion guidelines are met. Even if the article on a subject is very short, it may just be a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:STUB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:STUB">stub</a> waiting for expansion. Being "short" is not grounds for deletion. </p><p>As in a paper encyclopedia, some articles will be several pages long, others just a line or two. There is no minimum or maximum length that qualifies an article, just the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable sourcing</a> of the information. Since <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:STONE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:STONE">nothing is in stone</a>, articles can grow, shrink, merge, split, and change in all different ways over time. But once the subject becomes clearly notable, they do not disappear. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Unreliable_sources">Unreliable sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Unreliable sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:UNRS"></span><span id="WP:JUSTABLOG"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:UNRS&redirect=no">WP:UNRS</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:JUSTABLOG&redirect=no">WP:JUSTABLOG</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> Blogs aren't reliable sources –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Format Error</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> The subject's site goes into great detail about it –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Propaganda=Gospel</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> There is a whole web site devoted to this subject –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Make It Notable Yourself</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> People are talking about it all over the blogs –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Talk of the Town</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> This <a href="/wiki/MySpace" class="mw-redirect" title="MySpace">MySpace</a> page tells all about it –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Say What You Want</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> Look what I found about it on Twitter –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Tweet Me</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> There is an entry in <a href="/wiki/Urban_Dictionary" title="Urban Dictionary">Urban Dictionary</a> on the subject –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Street Speech</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Wikipedia's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GNG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GNG">general notability guideline</a> requires that in order for a subject to be notable, it must be sourced by <i>multiple reliable sources, independent of the subject.</i> In establishing notability, those sources must meet the guidelines found on the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable sources</a> page. A subject's own site can be used to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verify</a> some information, but surely not to establish notability. Sites like <a href="/wiki/Blog" title="Blog">blogs</a> and personal pages that can be created or edited by anyone with little or no restriction are generally not seen as reliable sources of information. While such sites may be written in good faith and may be seen by some as accurate and/or neutral, there is little or no control or proof of these details, and there is even a chance they may have been created or edited by the very same person who created or contributed to the Wikipedia article. </p><p>On the other hand, blogs can be written by professional journalists and subject to editorial control, and personal sites can belong to established experts in the subject. There are also pages bearing the URLs of blogs that have mirrored news articles that do constitute reliable sources. For sites including user-generated content, assess whether the content is self-published or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RSOPINION" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RSOPINION">can be attributed</a> to an independent professional writer with a record of reliable publishing. News sources that publish in a blog format may be as reliable as a traditional newspaper. </p><p>And keep in mind that while sources such as blogs aren't usually suitable for the purposes of establishing notability, they may be perfectly suitable for verifying information within an article whose notability has already been established by other means. In other words, removing information sourced to a blog is not the same as arguing for the deletion of an article –  these are separate acts with different sets of criteria for performing them and should not be conflated. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Trivial_coverage">Trivial coverage</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Trivial coverage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:TRIVIAL"></span><span id="WP:TRIVCOV"></span><span id="WP:TRIVIALCOVERAGE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:TRIVIAL&redirect=no">WP:TRIVIAL</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:TRIVCOV&redirect=no">WP:TRIVCOV</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:TRIVIALCOVERAGE&redirect=no">WP:TRIVIALCOVERAGE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> In all the publicity this school has received, they mention this particular honors student –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">WayToGo!</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> A restaurant that is often reviewed in the community times –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">HighRatings</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> Of course this church is notable. This is where the city council always meets every Tuesday night. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">EveryWordCounts</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> I always hear on the 5 o'clock news that the police have been called to this gas station –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">NuisanceProperty</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> Splatter Road has been the site of 3 homicides in the past 10 years that have all received news coverage mentioning this location –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">DangerZone</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> One source saying she won the Nobel Prize only mentions her once. That's not SIGCOV. <a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">HennyYoungman</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> A restaurant that only has magazine reviews –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Didn'tSee<i>TheTimes</i>FrontPage</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GNG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GNG">general notability guideline</a> stipulates that in order for a subject to be worthy of a standalone article, <i>significant coverage</i> that addresses the subject in detail is required, to the point that <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OR">original research</a> that involves extracting information is not needed. Merely being mentioned in a source whose primary purpose is to cover an entirely different subject does not necessarily satisfy this guideline. Once notability has been established, some of these sources may be useful in verifying additional information, but they should not be used as a reason why the subject is notable. </p><p> On the other hand, the notability guideline <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237805129">.mw-parser-output .talkquote{color:var(--color-base,#202122);background-color:#eaf8f4;border-left:3px solid #008560;padding:0 .8em;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .talkquote-by,.mw-parser-output .talkquote-source{margin-left:1.6em}.mw-parser-output .skin-vector-2022 .talkquote>:last-child{padding-bottom:0}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .talkquote{background-color:#0d261f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .talkquote{background-color:#0d261f}}</style></p><blockquote class="talkquote"><p>doesn't require that the subject is the main topic of the source material</p></blockquote><p>, only that it's <i>more than a trivial mention</i>. The spirit and the letter of the guideline are concerned with <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WHYN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WHYN">having enough content to write articles</a> from a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">neutral point of view</a>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237805129"></p><blockquote class="talkquote"><p>Critical commentary from <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reputable</a> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PROFESSIONAL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PROFESSIONAL">professional reviewers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ORG#cite_note-2" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ORG">prestigious awards</a> are examples of short but <i>significant</i> (i.e. nontrivial) mentions</p></blockquote><p> that have been used to establish notability and are useful to write <i>Reception</i> sections (see the specific guidelines for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(books)#Criteria" title="Wikipedia:Notability (books)">books</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(films)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (films)">films</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(music)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (music)">music</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AUTHOR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AUTHOR">artists</a>); common sense and editorial judgement should be used to reach a consensus about the sources available. </p><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="It's_in_the_news"><span id="It.27s_in_the_news"></span>It's in the news</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: It's in the news"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ITSINTHENEWS"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ITSINTHENEWS&redirect=no">WP:ITSINTHENEWS</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> I came here to find out more about the arrest and court case...should be kept and updated –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">NeedsToKnow1</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> On the news tonight and on all major newspaper frontpages –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">NeedsToKnow2</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 08:45, 13 December 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> When I saw this I immediately looked it/them up here, as did many –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">CNNfan:)</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 16:39, 31 October 2009 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> Huge media interest in this celeb romance...so we should keep the article –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">NeedGoode..Luvin</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 21:24, 1 April 2006 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Wikipedia is not news, and there should be no news, period –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Press-Free Zone</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 16:39, 31 October 2009 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> No one talks about this any more -- it was in the news a long time ago but you never see anything about it now. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Gone and Forgotten</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 16:39, 31 October 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT#NEWS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOT">Wikipedia is not a news service</a>—articles will not simply be kept because they are of timely importance. Due to its popularity, Wikipedia is many people's first port of call to find out more about a breaking story or other current event they've just heard about. Wikipedia does have articles that cover <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Current_events" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Current events">current events</a> as well as those of the past, and it even selects certain <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:In_the_news" title="Wikipedia:In the news">newsworthy topics</a> for display on the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Main_Page" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Main Page">Main Page</a>. But <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ENCYC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ENCYC">Wikipedia is an encyclopedia</a>, not a news service, and keep arguments must take this into account. Wikipedia even has a sister project <a href="/wiki/Wikinews" title="Wikinews">Wikinews</a>, dedicated to hosting user generated news stories. </p><p>Basically, Wikipedia is not a place for <i>routine</i> coverage, such as locally reported crime, community issues, regularly scheduled sports events, trivial matters, and other topics that are found in the daily paper. It is not here to take the place of the newspaper, regular broadcasts, or other forms of media that are to be expected. Some events are indeed notable and worthy of inclusion. The NOTNEWS guideline is not intended to be overused to favor deletion. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:EVENT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:EVENT">There are a variety of reasons an article may be written about a particular event</a>, and this must be taken into consideration when a news event is sent to AfD. </p><p>If you plan to use either the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:EVENT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:EVENT">WP:EVENT</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTNEWS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTNEWS">WP:NOTNEWS</a> arguments (or other similar guidelines) to support keeping or deleting an article, it is important to be familiar with the guidelines to be sure what news belongs and what news does not. It may also help to get a sense of what types of events either do or don't customarily have articles. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Geographic_scope">Geographic scope</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Geographic scope"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ITSLOCAL"></span><span id="WP:FARAWAY"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ITSLOCAL&redirect=no">WP:ITSLOCAL</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:FARAWAY&redirect=no">WP:FARAWAY</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> It's of interest around the entire globe –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">World Traveler</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> People from 3000 miles away know what this is –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Coast to Coast</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> Everyone around the world needs to know about this –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Reporting on importance</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 05:59, 30 September 2012 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> No one from outside this establishment's hometown has ever heard of it or ever will –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Total Stranger</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Wikipedia is an encyclopedia of the entire world, not just Woodsville –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Why Should I Care?</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Cumbertown is not the center of the world –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Geocentric</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:13, 08 June 2007 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Notability is not about assigning an elite status to a select group of subjects. It is about having the ability to write neutral, verifiable, encyclopedic-style information about them. </p><p>Wikipedia's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GNG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GNG">General Notability Guideline</a> requires multiple sources independent of the subject to cover the subject in order to establish notability. But this guideline does not specify the locality of the coverage. Having sources that under all circumstances meet this guideline means that it is notable, and therefore, worthy of an article. On the contrary, being spread out around a greater region, such as a country or the whole world, without satisfying notability requirements does not make a subject notable. </p><p>At the same time, subject-specific notability standards in some areas of endeavour <i>do</i> require evidence that the sourceability is more than purely local — for instance, corporations and organizations have to meet <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CORPDEPTH" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CORPDEPTH">WP:CORPDEPTH</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ORGDEPTH" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ORGDEPTH">WP:ORGDEPTH</a>, which do require wider regionalized coverage, and non-winning candidates for political office are not accepted as notable just because local coverage of the election campaign exists in the local media where that campaign would have been simply <i>expected</i> to garner coverage. Rather, the question of whether local coverage is enough or not depends on variables like the strength of the basic notability claim and the volume of coverage that can be shown. For example, predominantly or purely local coverage may be enough to get the mayor of a major city into Wikipedia, because the notability claim is strong enough that the geographic range of coverage does not matter, but purely local coverage is not necessarily enough to get a city councillor or school board trustee in the same city, or the mayor of a small town, through the notability door — these people may still qualify for articles if something truly substantial, and referenced to a <i>significant</i> volume of media coverage about them, can be shown, but are not guaranteed articles just because one or two pieces of purely local media coverage exist. </p><p>Stating an article should be deleted because you and most of the world do not know about it is akin to the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IDONTKNOWIT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IDONTKNOWIT">I've never heard of it</a> argument. Many subjects are <a href="/wiki/Esotericism" class="mw-redirect" title="Esotericism">esoteric</a>, meaning that only a small crowd is familiar with them. For example, few people are aware or interested in some <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OBSCURE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OBSCURE">obscure</a> forms of living things, space bodies, or scientific concepts, and few people will ever know about them in the first place in order to even desire to read about them. Yet there is sourced information about them, so they qualify to be included. </p><p>The same is true about subjects only of interest to those in a single city, town, or region. People who live outside the area who have never visited there or done any research on the area will obviously be unlikely to have ever heard of them. But Wikipedia is not limited to subjects that everyone in the world knows or will have a good chance of knowing. Being a global encyclopedia, Wikipedia can cover a wide range of topics, many of them pertaining to the culture of a single country, language, or an ethnic group living in one part of the world. The people living in a single city or town and everything they have built around them are likewise a culture and society of their own. </p><p>Another question is where to draw the line on a subject as being "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LOCAL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LOCAL">local</a>". Local could mean limited to a city or town. But others may view a state, province, or other similar region as being local. And such divisions vary in size throughout the world. And though the boundaries of a jurisdiction are legally defined, determining a distance from that location in which coverage would be non-local is not possible. </p><p>One may ask: <i>does it not make sense that one part of the world has more articles on its local interests than another with a greater population?</i> If so, this is not because Wikipedia is ever intended to be this way. Numbers of articles are not written in direct proportion with the population distribution of the world. Each article is written because just one person living wherever chooses to write that article. And some areas just happen to have more dedicated writers. Anyone, including you, can be devoted to writing about your hometown. (See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Geographic_imbalance" title="Wikipedia:Geographic imbalance">WP:Geographic imbalance</a>.) </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GEOSCOPE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GEOSCOPE">Events Notability Guideline</a> on the other hand does specify locality of coverage, recommending notable events more often have a national or international scope. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arbitrary_quantity">Arbitrary quantity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Arbitrary quantity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OLDAGE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OLDAGE">WP:OLDAGE</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"WP:ARBITRARY" redirects here. For arbitrary category, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization#Arbitrary_inclusion_criteria" title="Wikipedia:Overcategorization">WP:Overcategorization § Arbitrary inclusion criteria</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:BIG"></span><span id="WP:NOTBIGENOUGH"></span><span id="WP:BIGNUMBER"></span><span id="WP:THISNUMBERISHUGE"></span><span id="WP:ARBITRARY"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BIG&redirect=no">WP:BIG</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOTBIGENOUGH&redirect=no">WP:NOTBIGENOUGH</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BIGNUMBER&redirect=no">WP:BIGNUMBER</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:THISNUMBERISHUGE&redirect=no">WP:THISNUMBERISHUGE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ARBITRARY&redirect=no">WP:ARBITRARY</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> An <a href="/wiki/Internet_forum" title="Internet forum">Internet forum</a> with only 3,000 members / a <a href="/wiki/Magazine" title="Magazine">magazine</a> with 37,000 subscribers / a <a href="/wiki/Micronation" title="Micronation">micronation</a> with a population of 9,400 is not notable. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Notbigenough</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 04:56, 7 August 2006</li> <li><b>Keep</b> An <a href="/wiki/Internet_forum" title="Internet forum">Internet forum</a> with 3,000 members / a <a href="/wiki/Magazine" title="Magazine">magazine</a> with 37,000 subscribers / a <a href="/wiki/Micronation" title="Micronation">micronation</a> with a population of 9,400 is notable. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Countvonnotable</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 04:56, 7 August 2006</li> <li><b>Keep</b> This person's video on YouTube just passed 1 million <a href="/wiki/Hit_(internet)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hit (internet)">views</a> mark and over 1,000 comments which is notable. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Lotsofviews</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 04:56, 7 August 2006</li></ul> <p>A commonly seen argument at AfD is "Subject has <i>X</i> number of <i>Y</i>, that's notable/non-notable". Notability isn't determined by something's <i>quantity</i> of members, but rather by the <i>quality</i> of the subject's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verifiable</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">reliable sources</a>. An article on a topic is more likely to pass the notability test with a single article in <i>Encyclopedia Britannica</i> than because it has 1 million views on YouTube. </p><p>This does <i>not</i> apply to the position taken in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NUMBER" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NUMBER">WP:NUMBER</a> that articles on actual numbers over a certain size need to establish several reasons why that particular number is notable, which is a well-defined threshold. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="I've_never_heard_of_it"></span><span class="anchor" id="I_have_never_heard_of_it"></span><span class="anchor" id="I_haven't_heard_of_it"></span><span class="anchor" id="I_have_not_heard_of_it"></span><span class="anchor" id="Fame_in_x"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Subjective_importance">Subjective importance</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Subjective importance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable plainlinks selfreference noprint">For further information on this concept and more examples, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Subjective_importance" title="Wikipedia:Subjective importance">WP:Subjective importance</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_is_BFDI_not_on_Wikipedia%3F" title="Wikipedia:Why is BFDI not on Wikipedia?">Wikipedia:Why is BFDI not on Wikipedia?</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:LOCALFAME"></span><span id="WP:IKNOWIT"></span><span id="WP:IDONTKNOWIT"></span><span id="WP:UNKNOWNHERE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:LOCALFAME&redirect=no">WP:LOCALFAME</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:IKNOWIT&redirect=no">WP:IKNOWIT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:IDONTKNOWIT&redirect=no">WP:IDONTKNOWIT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:UNKNOWNHERE&redirect=no">WP:UNKNOWNHERE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> Well I've never heard of it so it must be a hoax. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Iknownothing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 00:07, 1 April 2006 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Who outside of (name locality) has ever even heard of this person/place/thing? –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Notknownhere</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 14:12, 18 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> I know it well. It's on my way to school. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Myneighborhood</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 14:12, 18 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> Is the only elementary school on Clubbington Street in Eastgrove. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">OnlySchool</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 07:57, 30 July 2008 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Lots of things are well known to a select group of people. A person may be considered the greatest <a href="/wiki/Crochet" title="Crochet">crocheter</a> in a local crochet group, which may make her famous in that community, but that does not necessarily indicate she is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">notable</a> enough for a Wikipedia article. As is mentioned in one of the official Wikipedia policies, Wikipedia <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IINFO" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IINFO">is not an indiscriminate collection of information</a>, meaning that some things are not suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia. Everything in Wikipedia needs to be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiable</a> information published in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable sources</a> before an article can even be considered for inclusion, otherwise it could be considered <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOR">original research</a>. If the only sources that have written about a subject are those within a small community, it's likely (<i>but not always the case</i>) that those sources are not reliable enough to warrant inclusion in Wikipedia. </p><p>Conversely, some subjects' notability may be limited to a particular country, region, or culture. However, arguments that state that because a subject is unknown or not well known among English readers it should not have an article encourage a <a href="/wiki/Systemic_bias" title="Systemic bias">systemic bias</a> on Wikipedia. To avoid this systemic bias, Wikipedia should include all notable topics, even if the subject is not notable within the English-speaking population or within more populous or Internet-connected nations. Likewise, arguments that state that because a subject is lesser known or even completely unknown outside a given locality does not mean the subject is not notable. </p><p>This argument is not sufficient <i>on its own</i> to be persuasive in deletion discussions. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="CRYSTAL"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Crystal_ball">Crystal ball</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: Crystal ball"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ATA#CRYSTAL"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ATA&redirect=no#CRYSTAL">WP:ATA#CRYSTAL</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> This movement may be unknown now, but it is going to be really important very soon. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Youwillsee</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 18:49, 13 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> Of course this unreleased single is notable. It's by The Scrotums. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Mycrystalballisinforservice</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:40, 10 March 2010 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> We all know there will be a US presidential election in 2044. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Everyone's a psychic</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:40, 10 March 2010 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> This celeb is just a flash in the pan, and nobody will remember her in a week/month/year. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Shortattentionspan</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 18:49, 13 June 2007 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Wikipedia is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CRYSTAL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CRYSTAL">not a crystal ball</a>, and editors should avoid using one when commenting in a deletion discussion. It is difficult to determine precisely what people believe in the present, even more difficult to predict how perceptions will change in the future, and completely unnecessary to even try. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">Notability</a> is based on objective evidence of whether sufficient reliable sources <i>have</i> taken notice already, not on subjective judgments of whether people <i>should</i> take notice in the future. Focusing on the objective evidence helps the deletion discussion reach a logical conclusion; injecting your personal predictions does not. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Past_inaction_by_sources">Past inaction by sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: Past inaction by sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ONLYBECAUSEITHAPPENED"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ONLYBECAUSEITHAPPENED&redirect=no">WP:ONLYBECAUSEITHAPPENED</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> None of the source coverage would have occurred had the one event not occurred. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Lookherenotthere</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 10:28, 13 April 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> Subject did not get the media coverage it deserved at the time because reasons, so Wikipedia should waive its reliable sourcing requirements in order to rectify that unfairness. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">FixThePast</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 21:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">Notability</a> is based on objective evidence of whether sufficient reliable sources <i>have</i> taken notice already, not on subjective judgments of why people did not take notice in the past. Focusing on the objective evidence helps the deletion discussion reach a logical conclusion; injecting your personal supposition does not. Note however that articles have been deleted under <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BLP1E" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BLP1E">WP:BLP1E</a> even when the subject's earlier actions were reported in the press (at a much later date) as a result of later actions (and in the context of those). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Past_inaction_by_editors">Past inaction by editors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: Past inaction by editors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:NOIMPROVEMENT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOIMPROVEMENT&redirect=no">WP:NOIMPROVEMENT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_on_discussion_pages#Inaction_by_editors" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid on discussion pages">WP:Arguments to avoid on discussion pages § Inaction by editors</a></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> Nobody has added sources to the article, so it's not notable. – <a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">ArticleNotNotable</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 20:11, 3 January 2010 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>In general, <i>articles</i> are not notable or non-notable, <i>topics</i> are. Per <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NEXIST" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NEXIST">WP:NEXIST</a>, topic notability is based upon <i>source availability</i>, rather than the state of sourcing in articles. However, note that per the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons" title="Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons">Biographies of living persons</a> policy page, all BLP articles must have at least one source that supports at least one statement made about the person in the article, or it may be proposed for deletion. See also <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AFDISNOTCLEANUP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AFDISNOTCLEANUP">WP:AFDISNOTCLEANUP</a>. </p><p><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">(See also <a href="#Nobody's_working_on_it_(or_impatience_with_improvement)">§ Nobody's working on it (or impatience with improvement)</a>, for the related argument that the subject must not be notable if people aren't working on it.)</span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notability_is_inherited">Notability is inherited</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: Notability is inherited"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:NINI"></span><span id="WP:ITSA"></span><span id="WP:INHERITED"></span><span id="WP:NOTINHERITED"></span><span id="WP:INHERIT"></span><span id="WP:NOTINHERIT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NINI&redirect=no">WP:NINI</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ITSA&redirect=no">WP:ITSA</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:INHERITED&redirect=no">WP:INHERITED</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOTINHERITED&redirect=no">WP:NOTINHERITED</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:INHERIT&redirect=no">WP:INHERIT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOTINHERIT&redirect=no">WP:NOTINHERIT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people)#Invalid_criteria" title="Wikipedia:Notability (people)">Wikipedia:Notability (people) § Invalid criteria</a></div> <p><b>Caution</b>: This section is <i><b>not</b></i> a content guideline or policy. Nor does it apply to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Speedy_deletion" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Speedy deletion">speedy deletion</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Proposed deletion">proposed deletion</a>, as they are not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_discussions" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Deletion discussions">deletion discussions</a>. It only applies to arguments to avoid at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion">WP:Articles for deletion</a>. <span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> She once worked with someone famous –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Keeper</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 14:15, 03 March 2009 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> This poet is notable, so all his individual poems must be notable too. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">All the trees in the forest</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 14:15, 03 March 2009 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> It is a radio program on a notable radio station therefore the program is automatically notable. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Wheredoesitend</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 15:46, 9 March 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> his brother is a notable athlete. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Family Tree</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 19:44, 29 October 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b>: there are lots of famous people on this list, so it's notable. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Adrian Listmaker</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 18:20, 26 March 2009 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> The artist is famous, so the album is notable. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">The internet's busiest music nerd</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 9:29 15 August 2015 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> They've given millions of dollars to a notable charity/school/hospital, which named a building after them. Here's a link to a press release! -<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Eleemosynary</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>) 11:05, 11 February 2022</li> <li><b>Delete</b> All examples of <i>faah</i> are useless cruft. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Class Warfare</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 11:22, 3 July 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> she's only the U.S. President's wife –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">First Lady</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 18:16, 10 April 2015 (UTC)</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Inherent_notability" title="Wikipedia:Inherent notability"><i>Inherent</i> notability</a> is the idea that something qualifies for an article merely because it exists, even if zero independent reliable sources have ever taken notice of the subject. This is usually phrased as "All ____ are notable", for example, "all high schools are notable" or "no elementary schools are notable". </p><p><i>Inherited</i> notability is the idea that something qualifies for an article merely because it was associated with some other, legitimately notable subjects. This is usually phrased as "____ is notable, because it is associated with <a href="/wiki/Example" class="mw-disambig" title="Example">Important Subject</a>." </p><p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NRVE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NRVE">Notability requires verifiable evidence</a>. This is why notability is usually neither inherited nor inherent: inherited and inherent notability claims can't be verified with evidence. They are only mere personal opinion as in the examples above. </p><p>Notability of one or more members of some group or class of subjects may or may not apply to other possible members of that group. Discuss based upon the individual subject, not the subject's overarching classification or type. If a subject under discussion is independently notable, provide the evidence to show that. </p><p>In addition, notability of a parent entity or topic (of a parent-child "tree") does not <i>always</i> imply the notability of the subordinate entities. That is not to say that this is always the case (four of the notability guidelines, for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CREATIVE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CREATIVE">creative professions</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(books)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (books)">books</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(films)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (films)">films</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(music)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (music)">music</a>, <i>do</i> allow for inherited notability in certain circumstances), or that the subordinate topic cannot be mentioned in the encyclopedia whatsoever. Often, a separate article is created for formatting and display purposes; however, this does not imply an "inherited notability" <i>per se</i>, but is often accepted in the context of ease of formatting and navigation, such as with books and albums. </p><p>Similarly, parent notability should be established independently; notability is not inherited "up", from notable subordinate to parent, either: not every manufacturer of a notable product is itself notable; not every organization to which a notable person belongs (or which a notable person leads) is itself notable. For example, just because <a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a> was a founding member of a particular <a href="/wiki/Local_union" title="Local union">local union</a> of the <a href="/wiki/American_Federation_of_Teachers" title="American Federation of Teachers">American Federation of Teachers</a> [Local 552, Princeton Federation of Teachers] does not make that AFT local notable. </p><p>Donations of significant amounts of money naturally are reciprocated by a certain amount of publicity, including press releases and even naming of buildings or entire academic departments. The mere giving of money in and of itself does not make the donor notable, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PRSOURCE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PRSOURCE">press releases</a> (or <a href="/wiki/Churnalism" title="Churnalism">routine coverage based on such press releases</a>) will not satisfy <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GNG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GNG">WP:GNG</a>. </p><p>The fact of having a famous relative is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:INVALIDBIO" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:INVALIDBIO">not, in and of itself, sufficient to justify an independent article</a>. Individuals in close, personal relationships with famous people (including politicians) can have an independent article even if they are known solely for such a relationship, but only if they pass <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GNG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GNG">WP:GNG</a>. Newborn babies are not notable except for an heir to a throne or similar. </p><p>Note, however, that this does <i>not</i> apply to situations where the fact of having a relationship to another person inherently <i>defines</i> a public position that is notable in its own right, such as a national <a href="/wiki/First_Lady" class="mw-redirect" title="First Lady">First Lady</a>. </p><p>This does not mean that such associations are never <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Credible_claim_of_significance" title="Wikipedia:Credible claim of significance">claims of significance</a> (significance is a lower standard than notability, used for sections <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:A7" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:A7">A7</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:A9">A9</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:A11" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:A11">A11</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion">criteria for speedy deletion</a>); it simply means that the association does not <i>by itself</i> make the subject notable. Also, notability not being inherited is not <i>by itself</i> grounds for deletion; subjects can still be notable by other means and even when they are not, often such articles can be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ATD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ATD">merged or redirected</a> to the article on the associated subject (see also the <i><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Just_not_notable_(I've_never_heard_of_merger_or_redirection)">Just not notable</a></i> section above). </p><p><i>See also <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NRVE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NRVE">WP:Notability</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AVOIDSPLIT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AVOIDSPLIT">WP:Summary Style</a>.</i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lots_of_sources">Lots of sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=52" title="Edit section: Lots of sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:SOURCESEARCH"></span><span id="WP:LOTSOFSOURCES"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:SOURCESEARCH&redirect=no">WP:SOURCESEARCH</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:LOTSOFSOURCES&redirect=no">WP:LOTSOFSOURCES</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b>: there are <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.google.com/news?q=wikipedia">many</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?q=wikipedia">many</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=wikipedia">many</a> sources available. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">IFoundLotsofSources</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 18:20, 26 March 2009 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.google.com/news?q=wikipedia">Did you even look for sources</a>? –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">SourceSearcher</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 18:20, 26 March 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Whilst showing the subject is mentioned in a number of sources, not all sources are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable</a> and may only be trivial mentions. Notability requires the presence of significant treatment of a subject in reliable <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Independent_sources" title="Wikipedia:Independent sources"><i>independent</i> sources</a>, not just the mere presence of the searched-for term. <a href="/wiki/Search_aggregator" title="Search aggregator">Search aggregators</a> are also prone to picking up user-comments too. So it is important to specify the actual sources which can be used instead of just linking to a search of them, and to consider whether these sources provide enough information to write a reasonably detailed article on the subject, rather than a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PERMASTUB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PERMASTUB">hopeless stub</a>. This also applies to lists of 'Media Coverage/In the News' sections on websites. </p><p>By the same token, do not base a keep argument solely on how many footnotes are present in the article. It is possible to generate footnotes by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:REFBOMB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:REFBOMB">reference bombing</a> it with dozens of footnotes that aren't actually building notability at all: social media posts, directory entries, blogs, sources that tangentially verify stray facts without actually mentioning the article subject at all, and so forth. The article's sources need to be measured for their quality and depth, in addition to the number of sources. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wikipedias_in_other_languages">Wikipedias in other languages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=53" title="Edit section: Wikipedias in other languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:OTHERLANGS"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:OTHERLANGS&redirect=no">WP:OTHERLANGS</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> given the six interwiki links (de:Foo, es:Foo, fr:Foo, it:Foo, la:Foo, pt:Foo). They can't all be wrong. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Interwikis=Notability</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 14:54, 11 August 2009 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> No interwiki –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">TrappedBehindTheLanguageBarrier</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:15, 8 October 2009 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>A notable topic will often be covered by Wikipedia articles in <a href="/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias" title="List of Wikipedias">many languages other than English</a>; however, the existence of such articles does not indicate, by itself, that a topic is notable. </p><p>Other Wikipedias may have different inclusion criteria from the English Wikipedia. Notability requires coverage in <i>reliable</i> secondary sources. Other versions of Wikipedia are not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable sources</a>. Many articles in other Wikipedias are based on translations of English Wikipedia articles. Moreover, because of the availability of online translation tools, it's easier to create cross-wiki spam. The hoax article <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia/Jean_Moufot" title="Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/Jean Moufot">Jean Moufot</a> was first posted on the Dutch Wikipedia and then translated into several other languages, including English. Of course, if the other Wikipedia articles cite any reliable sources not in the English Wikipedia article, they can be added to it. </p><p>On the other hand, the fact that there are no interwikis does not mean that the article should be deleted. It may be the case that nobody has yet written an article on another language's Wikipedia or that it just hasn't been linked to from the English language article. It may also be the case that the topic is notable in the English-speaking world, but of little relevance to speakers of other languages, or vice versa. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Individual_merit">Individual merit</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=54" title="Edit section: Individual merit"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Very_long_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style ambox-very_long" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/40px-Edit-clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/60px-Edit-clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/80px-Edit-clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>may be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_size" title="Wikipedia:Article size">too long</a> to read and navigate comfortably</b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Consider <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Splitting" title="Wikipedia:Splitting">splitting</a> content into sub-articles, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Summary_style" title="Wikipedia:Summary style">condensing</a> it, or adding <a href="/wiki/Help:Section#Subsections" title="Help:Section">subheadings</a>. Please discuss this issue on the article's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions" title="Wikipedia talk:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions">talk page</a>.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="What_about_article_x?"><span id="What_about_article_x.3F"></span>What about article <var style="padding-right: 1px;">x</var>?</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=55" title="Edit section: What about article x?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:WAX"></span><span id="WP:WHATABOUT"></span><span id="WP:WHATABOUTX"></span><span id="WP:OTHER"></span><span id="WP:OTHERSTUFF"></span><span id="WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS"></span><span id="WP:OTHERSTUFFDOESNTEXIST"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WAX&redirect=no">WP:WAX</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WHATABOUT&redirect=no">WP:WHATABOUT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WHATABOUTX&redirect=no">WP:WHATABOUTX</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:OTHER&redirect=no">WP:OTHER</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:OTHERSTUFF&redirect=no">WP:OTHERSTUFF</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS&redirect=no">WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:OTHERSTUFFDOESNTEXIST&redirect=no">WP:OTHERSTUFFDOESNTEXIST</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For an essay that discusses precedents outside deletion discussions, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:When_to_use_or_avoid_%22other_stuff_exists%22_arguments" title="Wikipedia:When to use or avoid "other stuff exists" arguments">WP:When to use or avoid "other stuff exists" arguments</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability" title="Wikipedia:Notability">WP:Notability</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OTHERCONTENT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OTHERCONTENT">WP:OTHERCONTENT</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consistency_in_article_titles" title="Wikipedia:Consistency in article titles">WP:Consistency in article titles</a></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> There's an article on <var style="padding-right: 1px;">x</var>, and this is just as famous as that. – <a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">EmperorOtherstuff</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>)</li></ul> <p>, 04:04, 4 April 2006 (UTC) </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> Look, if we have an article on Pokémon species, we should be able to have an article on this band. – <a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">PokemonPerson</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>)</li></ul> <p>, 04:04, 4 April 2006 (UTC) </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> You say this article is promotional, but there are other articles just as promotional as this one. – <a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Bleigh Tant Marqueter</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>)</li></ul> <p>, 04:04, 25 December 2010 (UTC) </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> We do not have an article on y, so we should not have an article on this. – <a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">EmpressOtherStuff</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>)</li></ul> <p>, 04:04, 4 April 2013 (UTC) </p> <ul><li><b>Delete</b> You guys forced me to delete the article on a CEO, so you have to allow me to delete the article on this activist. – <a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">NoFair</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>)</li></ul> <p>, 04:04, 4 April 2019 (UTC) </p><p>The nature of Wikipedia means that you cannot make a convincing argument based solely on whether other articles do or do not exist, because there is nothing stopping anyone from creating any article. (This <em>may</em> be an argument that this article is not bad enough to be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CSD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CSD">speedily deleted</a>; but that does not mean it should be kept.) While these comparisons are not a conclusive test, they may form part of a cogent argument; an entire comment should not be dismissed because it includes a comparative statement like this. While comparing with other articles is not, in general, a convincing argument, comparing with articles that have been through some kind of quality review such as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Featured article">Featured article</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Good article">Good article</a>, or have achieved a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:QUALITY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:QUALITY">WikiProject A class rating</a>, makes a much more credible case. </p><p>From the logical perspective, this argument is an example of the logical fallacy known as the <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation" class="mw-redirect" title="Fallacy of relative privation">fallacy of relative privation</a> (also known as "appeal to worse problems" or "not as bad as"). </p><p>Plenty of articles exist that probably should not. Equally, because articles must wait for someone who is interested in the subject to notice they are missing before they are created, a lot of articles do not exist that probably should. So just pointing out that an article on a similar subject exists does not prove that the article in question should also exist; it is quite possible that the other article should also be deleted but nobody has noticed it and listed it for deletion yet. For this very reason, WAX arguments in AFD discussions sometimes backfire, by directly <i>causing</i> the other article to be immediately nominated for deletion. </p><p>Sometimes arguments are made that other articles have been put forward for AfD and survived/deleted (the most famous example being the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PTEST" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PTEST">Pokémon test</a>); these may be effective arguments, but even here caution should be used. Yet a small number of debates do receive wide participation and result in a decision that is effectively final, until new evidence comes along. If you reference such a past debate, and it is clearly a very similar case to the current debate, this can be a strong argument that should not be discounted because of a misconception that this section is a blanket ban on ever referencing other articles or deletion debates. </p><p>Note that this criterion also applies to the argument that an article has to be kept because it's a straight translation of an article that already exists in another language Wikipedia. All Wikipedias are vulnerable to the creation of articles about non-notable topics, and different-language Wikipedias may apply different notability standards to certain classes of topic — so the existence of an article on the French or Swedish or Urdu Wikipedias is not in and of itself an automatic exemption from the topic still having to clear the English Wikipedia's existing standards of sourcing and notability. Again, it may be that the other-language article needs to be deleted as well, and just hasn't been noticed by that Wikipedia's responsible editors yet. </p><p>Deletion debates can sometimes be faulty, and even if the debate was correct it can be hard to draw comparisons: would the fact that there is an article on every <i><a href="/wiki/Grey%27s_Anatomy" title="Grey's Anatomy">Grey's Anatomy</a></i> character mean there necessarily should be an article on every character on <i><a href="/wiki/The_Office_(British_TV_series)" title="The Office (British TV series)">The Office</a></i>? Comparisons can be highly subjective, and so it is better to look at the debates in question and see what policies were cited and make an argument based on how they apply to the current debate than just say "x was kept so this should be too". However, such an argument may be perfectly valid if such can be demonstrated in the same way as one might demonstrate justification for an article's creation. It would be ridiculous to consider deleting an article on <a href="/wiki/Yoda" title="Yoda">Yoda</a> or <a href="/wiki/Mace_Windu" title="Mace Windu">Mace Windu</a>, for instance. If someone were, as part of their reasoning for keep, to say that every other main character in <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars" title="Star Wars">Star Wars</a> has an article, this may well be a valid point. In this manner, using an "Other Stuff Exists" angle provides for consistency. Unfortunately, most deletion discussions are not as clear-cut, but the principles are the same. </p><p>Though a lot of Wikipedia's styles are codified in policy, to a large extent minor details are not. In categories of items with a finite number of entries where most are notable, it serves no useful purpose to endlessly argue over the notability of a minority of these items. </p><p>When an editor introduces a novel type of article in Wikipedia, it may be necessary to consider whether such organization of material is compliant with core policies such as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">neutral point of view</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOR">no original research</a>. Other editors may argue that a certain type of article doesn't exist because of inherent violations of core policies; see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ATTACK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ATTACK">WP:ATTACK</a> for example. Dismissing such concerns simply by pointing to this essay is inappropriate. </p><p><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">(See also <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Inclusion_is_not_an_indicator_of_notability" title="Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability">WP:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Pok%C3%A9mon_test" title="Wikipedia:Pokémon test">WP:Pokémon test</a>.)</span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Other_categories_exist">Other categories exist</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=56" title="Edit section: Other categories exist"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:OTHERCATSEXIST"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:OTHERCATSEXIST&redirect=no">WP:OTHERCATSEXIST</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>The accepted practice around OSE applies differently to categories, because in some cases consistency is a desired trait of categorization schemes. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CFD">WP:CFD</a> nominations regularly point out, for a new scheme, that "Other stuff doesn't exist" – in other words, this is a new scheme that would imply creation of many hundreds or thousands of new categories if expanded globally, and there may not be consensus for expanding it more broadly. As such, an appeal to "Other similar category schemes don't – and shouldn't – exist" may be an appropriate argument for arguing for deletion of a category. There are no hard and fast rules here, and there are cases where existence (or non-existence) of one scheme does not have much bearing on whether a similar scheme should be created in a different tree, but it should be noted that OSE/OCE arguments tend to apply differently in category space than they do in article space. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="All_or_nothing">All or nothing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=57" title="Edit section: All or nothing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ALLORNOTHING"></span><span id="WP:AON"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ALLORNOTHING&redirect=no">WP:ALLORNOTHING</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:AON&redirect=no">WP:AON</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> If you delete this you will have to delete everything in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Category:Wikipedia_articles_about_X&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Wikipedia articles about X (page does not exist)">Category:Wikipedia articles about X</a>. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">AllOrNothing</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:04, 3 August 2006 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> We've deleted other articles in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Category:Wikipedia_articles_about_X&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Wikipedia articles about X (page does not exist)">Category:Wikipedia articles about X</a>, so this needs to go too. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">NothingOrAll</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 03:12, 10 March 2007 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>The status of articles on other similar topics has no necessary bearing on a particular article. The process may have been applied inappropriately, people may not have seen the other articles yet, or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CCC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CCC">consensus may have changed</a>. As well, articles that share a superficial commonality do not necessarily all meet the requirements necessary to write a well-referenced, neutral encyclopedia article. While some avant-garde performance artists, or college professors, or elementary schools, or blogs (for example) are mentioned in enough independent, extensive references to write an article, others are not. The existence of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SOURCE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SOURCE">verifiable, reliable information</a> from which a neutral, well-referenced article can be written is an important criterion in deletion discussions, not its presence in a Wikipedia category or similarity to other articles. Similarly, that some articles on a related topic have been rejected does not mean that this one is unsuitable. That said, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OUTCOMES" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OUTCOMES">there are precedents</a> that may have an impact on a deletion discussion. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Meta-reasoning">Meta-reasoning</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=58" title="Edit section: Meta-reasoning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="It_should_be_about_everything"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wikipedia_should_be_about_everything">Wikipedia should be about everything</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=59" title="Edit section: Wikipedia should be about everything"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTHING" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTHING">WP:NOTHING</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:EVERYTHING"></span><span id="WP:ABOUTEVERYTHING"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:EVERYTHING&redirect=no">WP:EVERYTHING</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ABOUTEVERYTHING&redirect=no">WP:ABOUTEVERYTHING</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> I thought Wikipedia's purpose was to provide information on everything. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">AllInclusive</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:04, 3 August 2006 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> You are trying to remove true information! –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">AllTruthful</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 15:45, 17 December 2006 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> This thing exists, so it should be included. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">JohnPaulSartre&Ringo</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:14, 14 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> Per <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTPAPER" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTPAPER">WP:NOTPAPER</a>, Wikipedia has space for it –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">JohnPaulSartre&Ringo</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:14, 14 June 2007 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Yes, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and as such, it should convey information on all branches of knowledge. However, "all branches of knowledge" does <em>not</em> necessarily mean "everything". Wikipedia is specifically <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_an_indiscriminate_collection_of_information" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOT">not an indiscriminate collection of information</a>, which means there are standards for what constitutes information that should be in Wikipedia. Imagine how large <a href="/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem#Origins_and_"The_Total_Library"" title="Infinite monkey theorem">an encyclopedia on everything would be</a>: everything would include every idea that has existed or will exist, every person who ever lived, every organization that has existed or exists, every copy of an object that has existed or exists, every website that has existed or exists, etc. The most basic threshold of inclusion is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiability, not truth</a>. The verifiability requirement alone would prevent writing about every particle and limit the information that could be included on every person. Moreover, the community has decided not to document every verifiable fact and accordingly has established <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">notability guidelines</a> on what articles should be kept, and a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DUE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DUE">due weight</a> policy on what facts are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FRINGE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FRINGE">minority views</a>. Even though that guideline is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTPAPER" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTPAPER">broader than a paper encyclopedia</a>'s guidelines, it is also not "everything" and not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:INDISCRIMINATE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:INDISCRIMINATE">an indiscriminate collection</a> of anything verifiable. So think carefully and exercise judgement when determining what should be included in an encyclopedia. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Do_not_lose_the_information_or_the_effort"><span class="anchor" id="Do_not_lose_the_information"></span><span class="anchor" id="Don't_lose_the_information"></span><span class="anchor" id="People_put_a_lot_of_work_into_it"></span>Do not lose the information or the effort</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=60" title="Edit section: Do not lose the information or the effort"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:HARDWORK"></span><span id="WP:LOSE"></span><span id="WP:EFFORT"></span><span id="WP:IWORKEDSOHARD"></span><span id="WP:SUNKCOST"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:HARDWORK&redirect=no">WP:HARDWORK</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:LOSE&redirect=no">WP:LOSE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:EFFORT&redirect=no">WP:EFFORT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:IWORKEDSOHARD&redirect=no">WP:IWORKEDSOHARD</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:SUNKCOST&redirect=no">WP:SUNKCOST</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"WP:LOSE" redirects here. For Wikipedia is not about losing or winning, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_about_winning" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not about winning">WP:Wikipedia is not about winning</a>. For the essay on losing a discussion gracefully, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_lose" title="Wikipedia:How to lose">WP:How to lose</a>.</div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> because we would lose the information otherwise. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Essential Essential</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:19, 18 January 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> because the information is available elsewhere. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Redundant Redundant</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:19, 18 January 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> Lots of people have worked on this. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">TheyWorked</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 16:15, 1 March 2006 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>It is unfortunate that editors put effort into writing or maintaining articles that do not meet Wikipedia policy or guidelines. Many editors have seen articles that they invested time and energy into get deleted, and there is no doubt that this can be discouraging. However, the fact of the effort put into an article does not excuse the article from the requirements of policy and guidelines. </p><p>In some cases content can be merged to other relevant articles or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Alternative_outlets" title="Wikipedia:Alternative outlets">contributed to other wikis</a>. Note that an argument from <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PRESERVE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PRESERVE">WP:PRESERVE</a> does hold some weight in discussions of outright article deletion when material has been merged, as all contribution information may be lost, invalidating the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:C" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:C">licensing</a> for the article. </p><p>Deleted work can be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Userification#Userfication_of_deleted_content" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Userification">restored to your personal page</a> or to the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Drafts" title="Wikipedia:Drafts">draft namespace</a> on request to an administrator. It is also usually possible for the information to be restored if the article passes a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DRV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DRV">deletion review</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Better_here_than_there">Better here than there</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=61" title="Edit section: Better here than there"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:BHTT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BHTT&redirect=no">WP:BHTT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Example:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> If this article is deleted then the stuff in it will end up back in the main article –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">APlaceForEverything</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 06:25, 3 March 2006 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Unencyclopedic material does not belong in any article. Material sometimes called "trivia" or "in popular culture" may or may not be appropriate for inclusion, either as a part of a main article or in a spin-off article. But unsourced or totally unimportant material does not belong in either, not in the main article nor a sub-article split off to keep it separate from the main article. Trivia sections in articles should be avoided, as Wikipedia is not a trivia repository. <i>Foo in popular culture</i> articles may be viable, as are articles devoted specifically to aspects such as "use in fiction" or "cultural influences", if reliable sources establish that it is a legitimate encyclopedic topic. But unsourced material of no importance has no place on Wikipedia. Either incorporate the material in the main article with appropriate sources, find appropriate justification and sources for the spin-off article or consider that the material is not appropriate for Wikipedia. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="That's_only_a_guideline,_proposal_or_essay"><span id="That.27s_only_a_guideline.2C_proposal_or_essay"></span><span class="anchor" id="It_is_only_a_guideline/essay"></span><span class="anchor" id="That's_only_a_guideline/essay"></span>That's only a guideline, proposal or essay</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=62" title="Edit section: That's only a guideline, proposal or essay"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ONLYESSAY"></span><span id="WP:ONLYPROPOSAL"></span><span id="WP:ONLYGUIDELINE"></span><span id="WP:ONLYSUPPLEMENT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ONLYESSAY&redirect=no">WP:ONLYESSAY</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ONLYPROPOSAL&redirect=no">WP:ONLYPROPOSAL</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ONLYGUIDELINE&redirect=no">WP:ONLYGUIDELINE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ONLYSUPPLEMENT&redirect=no">WP:ONLYSUPPLEMENT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_value_of_essays" title="Wikipedia:The value of essays">WP:The value of essays</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Quote_your_own_essay" title="Wikipedia:Quote your own essay">WP:Quote your own essay</a></div> <p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:EXAMPLE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:EXAMPLE">WP:EXAMPLE</a> is an essay, not policy. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">DissentingView</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 18:49, 13 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(ABC)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Notability (ABC)">WP:Notability (ABC)</a> is only a proposal. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Idontlikeproposals</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 18:49, 13 June 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:XYZ" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:XYZ">WP:XYZ</a> is only a guideline. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">GuidelinesNoGood</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 18:49, 13 June 2007 (UTC)</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BURO" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BURO">Wikipedia is not a system of laws</a>. Deletion processes are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Discuss,_don%27t_vote" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Discuss, don't vote">discussions, not votes</a>, and we encourage people to put forward their <em>opinions</em>. Sometimes, they will find an existing project page which sums up their reasoning already, and rather than <a href="/wiki/Reinventing_the_wheel" title="Reinventing the wheel">reinventing the wheel</a> they will link to it (with a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:JUSTAPOLICY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:JUSTAPOLICY">suitable explanation</a> of why it applies). If someone links to an essay, proposal or guideline, they are not suggesting "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:EXAMPLE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:EXAMPLE">WP:EXAMPLE</a> says we should do this", but rather "I believe we should do this, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:EXAMPLE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:EXAMPLE">WP:EXAMPLE</a> explains the reasons why". </p><p><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_essays" title="Category:Wikipedia essays">Essays</a>, in general, serve to summarize a position, opinion or argument. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PROPOSAL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PROPOSAL">Proposals</a>, in addition to their primary function, also summarize positions, opinions and arguments. Frequently, this is done with reference to policies and guidelines, so to glibly brand them as "only an essay" or "only a proposal" may be misleading. It also essentially suggests that the opinion of the person citing the page (as well as those of the people who originally wrote the page) is invalid when it may not be. There are many reasons why some arguments presented at deletion debates are invalid, based around the substance of the argument or the logic employed in reaching it. "The page you linked to is an essay or proposal" is not one of them. </p><p>Guidelines do indeed have exceptions; however, it is unhelpful to suggest "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:EXAMPLE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:EXAMPLE">WP:EXAMPLE</a> is only a guideline, we do not have to follow it". We have policies which tell us <em>what</em> to do and <em>why</em> to do it, and guidelines to help us with <em>how</em> to do it. Rather than using a page's "guideline" designation as an excuse to make an exception, suggest reasons why an exception should be made. </p><p>In particular, while precedents as defined at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OUTCOMES" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OUTCOMES">WP:OUTCOMES</a> are not actual policy, by virtue of the fact that a <a href="/wiki/Precedent" title="Precedent">precedent</a> exists you should provide an actual <em>reason</em> why the case at hand is different from or should be treated as an <em>exception</em> to it, rather than ignoring or dismissing it <em>solely</em> on the basis that it isn't a binding policy. </p><p>Now, it does happen that someone will be a proponent of following some notability guideline without any exception. Guidelines <em>do</em> explicitly say that there will be common sense exceptions to them. In those cases, it <em>is</em> fair to point out that it is not necessary to follow the guidelines 100% of the time if there is a good reason to break them. But you <em>should</em> try to make a reasonable argument for why <em>this</em> particular case is one of those exceptions. Guidelines are usually followed for good reasons, so there should be a good reason for departing from their guidance. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arguments_to_the_person">Arguments to the person</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=63" title="Edit section: Arguments to the person"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Ad_hominem" title="Ad hominem">Ad hominem</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ATTP"></span><span id="WP:IDONTLIKETHENOMINATOR"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ATTP&redirect=no">WP:ATTP</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:IDONTLIKETHENOMINATOR&redirect=no">WP:IDONTLIKETHENOMINATOR</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> Creator has a history of writing some really good articles, therefore this one must be good and should be kept. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">BrandLoyalty</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Creator has made only 27 edits so far. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">NewbieHater</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> Nominator has previously nominated a lot of articles that have been kept and therefore made poor choices. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">BadNom</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Creator has previously created many articles that have been deleted, therefore this one should be deleted. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">BadCreator</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 11:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b>, nominator is a banned user trying to destroy Wikipedia. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Tenacious Defender</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 04:18, 2 August 2008 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> Politically motivated nomination. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">POVPusher</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 00:02, 16 April 2011 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Creator has been <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BLOCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BLOCK">blocked</a> indefinitely from editing Wikipedia. And even though this page was created before their block, even so! –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Indefinite Discriminator</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 22:38, 3 May 2016 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>A deletion discussion is about the article in question itself. Though the suitability of other related articles may be mentioned during the discussion, and some deletions are bundled with other articles, the debate is not about the creator or any other editors of the article, nor is it about the AfD nominator or anyone who has commented on the AfD. An article is to be judged on its own merits and not those of its editors or detractors. Even well-respected editors sometimes create pages that others feel should be deleted, and likewise, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NEWBIE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NEWBIE">newbies</a> and those who have created many unworthy articles still have the potential to contribute good writings and have made many really good contributions. </p><p>There is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOSHAME" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOSHAME">no shame</a> in having one's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AGF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AGF">good-faith</a> efforts opposed by the majority. Wikipedia is not a club of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WINNER" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WINNER">winners</a> and losers. If a user is disrupting the encyclopedia by continually creating articles that get deleted or continually nominating good articles for deletion, an investigation may be called for into their behavior; this is an independent issue and its result one way or the other should not influence deletion discussions. </p><p>Remember, when you comment, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPA">personal attacks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AGF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AGF">accusations of bad faith</a> never help. </p><p>However, pages created by banned or blocked users in violation of their ban or block may be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#G5._Creations_by_banned_or_blocked_users" title="Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion">speedily deleted</a>, <em>if there're no substantial edits by others</em>. Such pages must be tagged with <span class="nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Db-g5" title="Template:Db-g5">db-g5</a>|<i>name of banned user</i>}}</span> or <span class="nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Db-banned" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Db-banned">db-banned</a>|<i>name of banned user</i>}}</span>. This criteria does not apply to pages created <em>before</em> the ban or block, or to pages of topics unrelated to the topic of the ban (unless it is a complete site ban). </p><p>As well, be very careful about flinging around accusations of a nominator's or commenter's perceived failure to follow <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BEFORE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BEFORE">WP:BEFORE</a>. Not everybody has access to the same research tools, so the fact that you were able to access a database that provided more coverage than somebody else found in other databases is not, in and of itself, proof that the other editor was negligent in their duties. If you can salvage the article, then just salvage it and don't attack other editors for not finding what you found. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Repeated_nominations">Repeated nominations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=64" title="Edit section: Repeated nominations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:LASTTIME"></span><span id="WP:NOTAGAIN"></span><span id="WP:KEEPLISTING"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:LASTTIME&redirect=no">WP:LASTTIME</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOTAGAIN&redirect=no">WP:NOTAGAIN</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:KEEPLISTING&redirect=no">WP:KEEPLISTING</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> Didn't we argue all this last month? –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">DejaVu</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 04:04, 4 April 2007 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Speedy Keep</b> Article survived previous AFD and should not have to be subjected to this rubbish again. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Yawner</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:35, 17 June 2006 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> It's already had a bunch of AFDs, obviously people want it deleted. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">TryAgain</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 16:32, 29 May 2007 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>If an article has been repeatedly nominated for deletion, sometimes users will recommend "Keep" (or even <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Speedy_keep" title="Wikipedia:Speedy keep">"speedy keep"</a>), arguing that because the article failed to gain a consensus for deletion before, there is no reason to renominate it. This is a good argument in some circumstances but a bad argument in others. An article that was kept in a past deletion discussion may still be deleted <em>if</em> deletion is supported by strong reasons that were not adequately addressed in the previous deletion discussion; after all, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CCC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CCC">consensus can change</a>. </p><p>If an article is <em>frivolously</em> nominated (or renominated) for deletion, then editors are justified in opposing the renomination. Frivolous renominations may constitute <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DISRUPT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DISRUPT">disrupting Wikipedia</a>, especially when there was a consensus to keep it in the past, or when only a short time has elapsed since the last nomination. </p><p>If an article was kept because it is potentially encyclopedic and can be improved or expanded, one should allow time for editors to improve it. Therefore, it is appropriate for editors to oppose a re-nomination that does not give enough time to improve the article. </p><p>Repeated nominations for deletion do not necessarily indicate that the article is problematic. No extra weight is given to the rationales offered by nominators over rationales offered, whether for or against deletion, by other discussion participants. An article's <em>survival</em> of multiple AFDs indicates that the reasons given by the nominators, along with those given by others in favor of deletion, repeatedly didn't prevail over the arguments given by those who were opposed. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Blackmail">Blackmail</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=65" title="Edit section: Blackmail"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:IQUIT"></span><span id="WP:BLACKMAIL"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:IQUIT&redirect=no">WP:IQUIT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BLACKMAIL&redirect=no">WP:BLACKMAIL</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> If we don't keep this why should I even edit at all? —<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">It stays or I go</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 11:31, 1 May 2012 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> This is the last straw. If we keep this Wikipedia isn't worth my time any more. —<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">It goes or I go</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:31, 1 June 2016 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> Nobody will edit if we delete this. Aren't we <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DOOMED" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DOOMED">losing editors</a>? —<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Wikipedia is dying</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 01:01, 5 June 2023 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> A media pundit criticized Wikipedia for having this kind of article. —<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Just want them to like us</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 19:89, 13 March 2024 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Editors sometimes issue ultimatums to get their way, threatening to quit editing. Or they will claim that current or future editors will be driven off by the wrong outcome. Similarly, an editor's desired outcome is tied to some outside criticism of Wikipedia, often in connection with statistics on the decline in new editors, or criticism of the <a href="/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia" title="Reliability of Wikipedia">reliability of Wikipedia</a>. It may be valid to argue that a decision will move the encyclopedia closer to, or away from, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">what Wikipedia is not</a> but a relevant argument should focus on the merits of the article. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citing_greater_problems">Citing greater problems</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=66" title="Edit section: Citing greater problems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:CITINGGREATERPROBLEMS"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CITINGGREATERPROBLEMS&redirect=no">WP:CITINGGREATERPROBLEMS</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> The fact that this is marked for deletion while Foo isn't says a lot about the state of this website. —<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">We Live In A Society</a> 15:10, 17 January 2022 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> This discussion is a prime example of the inherent fooism and barism of online communities. Let's not reinforce such things. —<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Internet Justice Police</a> 15:10, 17 January 2022 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> Of course any male editors (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians#Demographics" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedians">84%!</a>) don't think this is notable, they just can't see female perspectives. —<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">All Women's Official Spokesperson</a> 15:10, 17 January 2022 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> Nonsense like this is exactly why we're losing editors! Do the site a favor and close this already. —<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">This Will Bring Them All Back</a> 15:10, 17 January 2022 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> This article has long been an insult to Wikipedia and our standards. —<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Begin The Purge</a> 15:10, 17 January 2022 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> Let's rid this site of Foo-political bias. —<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Bar Politics Fan</a> 15:10, 17 January 2022 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Wikipedia and related projects has a lot of problems, both proven and alleged, both big and small. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BIAS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BIAS">There is a lot of bias</a>, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap" class="extiw" title="meta:Gender gap">women are greatly underrepresented</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ADMINABUSE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ADMINABUSE">there are often allegations and concerns about power abuse</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DESYS" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Wikipedia:DESYS">how to handle it</a>. But a deletion discussion is about a specific article and not a place to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RIGHTGREATWRONGS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RIGHTGREATWRONGS">right great wrongs</a> with Wikipedia. Pointing out bias and abusive user behavior is not wrong, but doing nothing beside that does not contribute to consensus-building. Even if the outcome of a discussion could be considered <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/problematic#English" class="extiw" title="wikt:problematic">problematic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTBURO" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTBURO">Wikipedia is not governed like a court system</a> and individual cases will usually not set an example for the future. </p><p>If you believe the opposing side in a discussion is an example of one of Wikipedia's greater issues, explain this to them in relation to the article itself and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:POLICY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:POLICY">existing policy</a> – do not view the discussion as being "symbolically" about settling right from wrong for the whole website. If you have a suggestion for how to improve the site unrelated to the discussion you find yourself in, you should use venues such as the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PUMP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PUMP">Village pump</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TEA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TEA">Teahouse</a> or one of the other <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CENT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CENT">places for centralized discussion</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citing_this_page_indiscriminately">Citing this page indiscriminately</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=67" title="Edit section: Citing this page indiscriminately"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ATAATA"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ATAATA&redirect=no">WP:ATAATA</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b>. All the "delete" voters are just saying <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PERNOM" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PERNOM">WP:PERNOM</a>. —<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Bucking the trend</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:01 1 January 2017 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b>. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS">WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS</a> is not a valid argument. —<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Stuff stuffity stuff</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 13:25 2 January 2017 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Used effectively, this page can be used to point out common types of fallacious reasoning. However, participants must still give a valid rationale in support of their position, rather than merely exposing the flaws in their opponents' reasoning. Moreover, they are not always bad arguments to make. If five people have voted to delete per nom and you're the only person considering whether to keep the article, maybe the nominator has laid out the case so well that no more needs to be said. Also, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SSEFAR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SSEFAR">some stuff exists for a reason</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Outcomes_based">Outcomes based</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=68" title="Edit section: Outcomes based"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:OUTCOMESBASED"></span><span id="WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMESSAYS"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:OUTCOMESBASED&redirect=no">WP:OUTCOMESBASED</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:SCHOOLOUTCOMESSAYS&redirect=no">WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMESSAYS</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><i>Example:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SCHOOLOUTCOMES" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SCHOOLOUTCOMES">WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES</a> says that we keep secondary schools so this article should be kept —<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">School spirit guy</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:01, 1 January 2017 (UTC)</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SCHOOLOUTCOMES" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SCHOOLOUTCOMES">WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES</a> is an effective summary of how deletion discussions on Wikipedia tend to be resolved, but using it as the only argument for keeping or deleting an article can lead to circular reasoning. Participants can refer to WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES but are expected to further explain their reasoning in discussions. The results of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_133#RfC_on_secondary_school_notability" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 133">this February 2017 RFC on secondary school notability</a> describe how school AFDs should be evaluated. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Denying_the_antecedent">Denying the antecedent</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=69" title="Edit section: Denying the antecedent"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent" title="Denying the antecedent">Denying the antecedent</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:FALLACY"></span><span id="WP:NOTIDONTLIKEIT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:FALLACY&redirect=no">WP:FALLACY</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOTIDONTLIKEIT&redirect=no">WP:NOTIDONTLIKEIT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Please study the <a href="#top">introduction</a> of this essay on making solid arguments in deletion discussions.</span> </p><p><i>Examples:</i> </p> <ul><li><b>Keep</b> It does not matter if it is original research, or non verifiable. It's notable. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Original scientist</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 00:44, 10 October 2009 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> It is verifiable, therefore it is not original research. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">VerifiableOR</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 00:49, 11 October 2009 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> The nominator's argument is basically <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IDONTLIKEIT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IDONTLIKEIT">WP:IDONTLIKEIT</a>. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">You Know Who Else Had A Toothbrush Moustache</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 21:04, 18 August 2013 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> The arguments for keeping are basically <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ITSUSEFUL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ITSUSEFUL">WP:ITSUSEFUL</a>. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">I Am Weightless, I Am Rust</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:18, 6 September 2013 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Keep</b> The nominator did not perform the steps in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BEFORE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BEFORE">WP:BEFORE</a>. Therefore, the article is notable. –<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Use Head Before Hand</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:18, 6 September 2013 (UTC)</li> <li><b>Delete</b> The "keep" arguments contain a logical <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FALLACY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FALLACY">WP:FALLACY</a>.<a href="/wiki/User:Example" title="User:Example">Wholly Chao</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Example" title="User talk:Example">talk</a>), 12:18, 6 September 2013 (UTC)</li></ul> <p>Denying the antecedent (and its variants, like the <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_fallacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Fallacy fallacy">fallacy fallacy</a>) is a formal fallacy. It basically consists in confusing a <a href="/wiki/Necessary_and_sufficient_condition" class="mw-redirect" title="Necessary and sufficient condition">necessary with a sufficient condition</a>. All Wikipedia policies are necessary conditions, not necessarily sufficient. If the article meets one condition, it does not mean that it does not violate other policies: original research may be verifiable; articles that seem to be notable may be original research; notable biographies may be a violation of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BLP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BLP">WP:BLP</a>. The policies should be interpreted together and not alone. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_arguments_to_avoid">Other arguments to avoid</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=70" title="Edit section: Other arguments to avoid"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">The following links are to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Essay" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Essay">essays</a> which describe various relevance fallacies, which should also be avoided in discussions.</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FACTORS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FACTORS">Factors that do not automatically render notability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WABBITSEASON" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WABBITSEASON">Avoid repeating arguments</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DISCRIMINATE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DISCRIMINATE">Discriminate vs indiscriminate information</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ALLARGUMENTS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ALLARGUMENTS">Encourage full discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LIARLIAR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LIARLIAR">Liar Liar Pants on Fire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTHING" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTHING">Nothing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTDUP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTDUP">Overlapping categories, lists and navigation templates are not considered duplicative</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions&action=edit&section=71" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_make_in_deletion_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to make in deletion discussions">Wikipedia:Arguments to make in deletion discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid" class="mw-disambig" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid">Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid</a> (index of essays on this theme)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Beyond_civility" title="Wikipedia:Beyond civility">Wikipedia:Beyond civility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies_to_cite_in_deletion_debates" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:List of policies to cite in deletion debates">Wikipedia:List of policies to cite in deletion debates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Hiding/What_notability_is_not" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Hiding/What notability is not">User:Hiding/What notability is not</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Hiding/Points_to_note_regarding_deletion_debates" title="User:Hiding/Points to note regarding deletion debates">User:Hiding/Points to note regarding deletion debates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Does_deletion_help" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Does deletion help">Wikipedia:Does deletion help</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_call_things_cruft" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Do not call things cruft">Wikipedia:Do not call things cruft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_attack_the_nominator" title="Wikipedia:Don't attack the nominator">Wikipedia:Don't attack the nominator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_overuse_shortcuts_to_policy_and_guidelines_to_win_your_argument" title="Wikipedia:Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument">Wikipedia:Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Discussing_cruft" title="Wikipedia:Discussing cruft">Wikipedia:Discussing cruft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Exceptions_should_leave_the_rule_intact" title="Wikipedia:Exceptions should leave the rule intact">Wikipedia:Exceptions should leave the rule intact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Existence_%E2%89%A0_Notability" title="Wikipedia:Existence ≠ Notability">Wikipedia:Existence ≠ Notability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Follow_the_leader" title="Wikipedia:Follow the leader">Wikipedia:Follow the leader</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Minimum_coverage" title="Wikipedia:Minimum coverage">Wikipedia:Minimum coverage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:MYTHS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:MYTHS">Wikipedia:Myths and facts about deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IDSWN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IDSWN">Wikipedia:I don't see why not!</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><link 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title="Wikipedia:Eight simple rules for editing our encyclopedia">Eight simple rules for editing our encyclopedia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Explanationism" title="Wikipedia:Explanationism">Explanationism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:External_criticism_of_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:External criticism of Wikipedia">External criticism of Wikipedia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Here_to_build_an_encyclopedia" title="Wikipedia:Here to build an encyclopedia">Here to build an encyclopedia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Leave_it_to_the_experienced" title="Wikipedia:Leave it to the experienced">Leave it to the experienced</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Levels_of_competence" title="Wikipedia:Levels of competence">Levels of competence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Levels_of_consensus" title="Wikipedia:Levels of consensus">Levels of consensus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_ideas_are_bad" title="Wikipedia:Most ideas are bad">Most ideas are bad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_does_or_does_not_need_that_article" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia does or does not need that article">Need</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutrality_of_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Neutrality of sources">Neutrality of sources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Not_editing_because_of_Wikipedia_restriction" title="Wikipedia:Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction">Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_one_question" title="Wikipedia:The one question">The one question</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversimplification" title="Wikipedia:Oversimplification">Oversimplification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Paradoxes" title="Wikipedia:Paradoxes">Paradoxes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Close_paraphrasing" title="Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing">Paraphrasing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:POV_and_OR_from_editors,_sources,_and_fields" title="Wikipedia:POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields">POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Process_is_important" title="Wikipedia:Process is important">Process is important</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Product,_process,_policy" title="Wikipedia:Product, process, policy">Product, process, policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Purpose" title="Wikipedia:Purpose">Purpose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reasonability_rule" title="Wikipedia:Reasonability rule">Reasonability rule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias" title="Wikipedia:Systemic bias">Systemic bias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:But_I%27m_an_Administrator!" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:But I'm an Administrator!">There is no seniority</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Ten_Simple_Rules_for_Editing_Wikipedia" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia">Ten Simple Rules for Editing 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href="/wiki/Wikipedia:An_unfinished_house_is_a_real_problem" title="Wikipedia:An unfinished house is a real problem">An unfinished house is a real problem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_half-life" title="Wikipedia:Article half-life">Articles have a half-life</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Autosizing_images" title="Wikipedia:Autosizing images">Autosizing images</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_mission_statements" title="Wikipedia:Avoid mission statements">Avoid mission statements</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_neutral_in_form" title="Wikipedia:Be neutral in form">Be neutral in form</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Beef_up_that_first_revision" title="Wikipedia:Beef up that first revision">Beef up that first revision</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Blind_men_and_an_elephant" title="Wikipedia:Blind men and an elephant">Blind men and an elephant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD,_revert,_discuss_cycle" title="Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle">BOLD, revert, discuss cycle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Build_content_to_endure" title="Wikipedia:Build content to endure">Build content to endure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Cherrypicking" title="Wikipedia:Cherrypicking">Cherrypicking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence" title="Wikipedia:Chesterton's fence">Chesterton's fence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Children%27s,_adult_new_reader,_and_large-print_sources_questionable_on_reliability" title="Wikipedia:Children's, adult new reader, and large-print sources questionable on reliability">Children's lit, adult new readers, & large-print books</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_overkill" title="Wikipedia:Citation overkill">Citation overkill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_underkill" title="Wikipedia:Citation underkill">Citation underkill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Common-style_fallacy" title="Wikipedia:Common-style fallacy">Common-style fallacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Concept_cloud" title="Wikipedia:Concept cloud">Concept cloud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Creating_controversial_content" title="Wikipedia:Creating controversial content">Creating controversial content</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Criticisms_of_society_may_be_consistent_with_NPOV_and_reliability" title="Wikipedia:Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability">Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deprecated_sources" title="Wikipedia:Deprecated sources">Deprecated sources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Dictionaries_as_sources" title="Wikipedia:Dictionaries as sources">Dictionaries as sources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_demolish_the_house_while_it%27s_still_being_built" title="Wikipedia:Don't demolish the house while it's still being built">Don't demolish the house while it's still being built</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_Parkinson%27s_Bicycle_Shed_Effect" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid Parkinson's Bicycle Shed Effect">Don't get hung up on minor details</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_hope_the_house_will_build_itself" title="Wikipedia:Don't hope the house will build itself">Don't hope the house will build itself</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_panic" title="Wikipedia:Don't panic">Don't panic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_%22teach_the_controversy%22" title="Wikipedia:Don't "teach the controversy"">Don't "teach the controversy"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_on_mobile_devices" title="Wikipedia:Editing on mobile devices">Editing on mobile devices</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Editors_are_not_mindreaders" title="Wikipedia:Editors are not mindreaders">Editors are not mindreaders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Encourage_the_newcomers" title="Wikipedia:Encourage the 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title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a reliable source">Wikipedia is not a reliable source</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_being_written_in_an_organized_fashion" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion">Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_world_will_not_end_tomorrow" title="Wikipedia:The world will not end tomorrow">The world will not end tomorrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Write_the_article_first" title="Wikipedia:Write the article first">Write the article first</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles" title="Wikipedia:Writing better articles">Writing better articles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Essays_in_a_nutshell/Article_writing" title="Wikipedia:Essays in a nutshell/Article writing">Writing article content</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_thread_mode" title="Wikipedia:Avoid thread mode">Avoid thread mode</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyediting_reception_sections" title="Wikipedia:Copyediting reception sections">Copyediting reception sections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Coup" title="Wikipedia:Coup">Coup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_throw_more_litter_onto_the_pile" title="Wikipedia:Don't throw more litter onto the pile">Don't throw more litter onto the pile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Gender-neutral_language" title="Wikipedia:Gender-neutral language">Gender-neutral language</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Myth_versus_fiction" title="Wikipedia:Myth versus fiction">Myth vs fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Proseline" title="Wikipedia:Proseline">Proseline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Use_our_own_words" title="Wikipedia:Use our own words">Use our own words</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:We_shouldn%27t_be_able_to_figure_out_your_opinions" title="Wikipedia:We shouldn't be able to figure out your opinions">We shouldn't be able to figure out your opinions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Write_the_article_first" title="Wikipedia:Write the article first">Write the article first</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_about_women" title="Wikipedia:Writing about women">Writing about women</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles" title="Wikipedia:Writing better articles">Writing better articles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Essays_in_a_nutshell/Removal_or_deletion_of_content" title="Wikipedia:Essays in a nutshell/Removal or deletion of content">Removing or<br /> deleting content</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Adjectives_in_your_recommendations" title="Wikipedia:Adjectives in your recommendations">Adjectives in your recommendations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion_is_not_a_war_zone" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion is not a war zone">AfD is not a war zone</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_reviews" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion reviews">Arguments to avoid in deletion reviews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_image_deletion_discussions" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions">Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_make_in_deletion_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to make in deletion discussions">Arguments to make in deletion discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_repeated_arguments" title="Wikipedia:Avoid repeated arguments">Avoid repeated arguments</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Before_commenting_in_a_deletion_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Before commenting in a deletion discussion">Before commenting in a deletion discussion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:But_there_must_be_sources!" title="Wikipedia:But there must be sources!">But there must be sources!</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Confusing_arguments_mean_nothing" title="Wikipedia:Confusing arguments mean nothing">Confusing arguments mean nothing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Content_removal" title="Wikipedia:Content removal">Content removal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Counting_and_sorting_are_not_original_research" title="Wikipedia:Counting and sorting are not original research">Counting and sorting are not original research</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Delete_or_merge" title="Wikipedia:Delete or merge">Delete or merge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Delete_the_junk" title="Wikipedia:Delete the junk">Delete the junk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_is_not_cleanup" title="Wikipedia:Deletion is not cleanup">Deletion is not cleanup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Does_deletion_help%3F" title="Wikipedia:Does deletion help?">Does deletion help?</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_attack_the_nominator" title="Wikipedia:Don't attack the nominator">Don't attack the nominator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_confuse_stub_status_with_non-notability" title="Wikipedia:Do not confuse stub status with non-notability">Don't confuse stub status with non-notability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_overuse_shortcuts_to_policy_and_guidelines_to_win_your_argument" title="Wikipedia:Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument">Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Emptying_categories_out_of_process" title="Wikipedia:Emptying categories out of process">Emptying categories out of process</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Follow_the_leader" title="Wikipedia:Follow the leader">Follow the leader</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_the_presumption_of_notability_works" title="Wikipedia:How the presumption of notability works">How the presumption of notability works</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_save_an_article_proposed_for_deletion" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:How to save an article proposed for deletion">How to save an article proposed for deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:I_just_don%27t_like_it" title="Wikipedia:I just don't like it">I just don't like it</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_blatant_advertising" title="Wikipedia:Identifying blatant advertising">Identifying blatant advertising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_test_edits" title="Wikipedia:Identifying test edits">Identifying test edits</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Immunity" title="Wikipedia:Immunity">Immunity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Keep_it_concise" title="Wikipedia:Keep it concise">Keep it concise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Liar_liar_pants_on_fire" title="Wikipedia:Liar liar pants on fire">Liar liar pants on fire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Nothing" title="Wikipedia:Nothing">Nothing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Nothing_is_clear" title="Wikipedia:Nothing is clear">Nothing is clear</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overzealous_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Overzealous deletion">Overzealous deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Relisting_can_be_abusive" title="Wikipedia:Relisting can be abusive">Relisting can be abusive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Relist_bias" title="Wikipedia:Relist bias">Relist bias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Heymann_Standard" title="Wikipedia:The Heymann Standard">The Heymann Standard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Unopposed_AFD_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Unopposed AFD discussion">Unopposed AFD discussion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_Whac-A-Mole" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not Whac-A-Mole">Wikipedia is not Whack-A-Mole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_was_the_page_I_created_deleted%3F" title="Wikipedia:Why was the page I created deleted?">Why was the page I created deleted?</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_to_do_if_your_article_gets_tagged_for_speedy_deletion" title="Wikipedia:What to do if your article gets tagged for speedy deletion">What to do if your article gets tagged for speedy deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:When_in_doubt,_hide_it_in_the_woodwork" title="Wikipedia:When in doubt, hide it in the woodwork">When in doubt, hide it in the woodwork</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_Encyclopedic_Use" title="Wikipedia:No Encyclopedic Use">No Encyclopedic Use</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd wraplinks" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Essays_on_civility" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Essay_directory#Wikipedia's_code_of_conduct" title="Wikipedia:Essay directory">Essays on civility</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Essays_in_a_nutshell/Civility" title="Wikipedia:Essays in a nutshell/Civility">The basics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accepting_other_users" title="Wikipedia:Accepting other users">Accepting other users</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Apology" title="Wikipedia:Apology">Apology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_complicated_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Contributing to complicated discussions">Contributing to complicated discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Divisiveness" title="Wikipedia:Divisiveness">Divisiveness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_retaliate" title="Wikipedia:Don't retaliate">Don't retaliate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Editors%27_pronouns" title="Wikipedia:Editors' pronouns">Editors' pronouns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_at_your_own_pace" title="Wikipedia:Edit at your own pace">Edit at your own pace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Encourage_the_newcomers" title="Wikipedia:Encourage the newcomers">Encouraging the newcomers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Enjoy_yourself" title="Wikipedia:Enjoy yourself">Enjoy yourself</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Expect_no_thanks" title="Wikipedia:Expect no thanks">Expect no thanks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:High-functioning_autism_and_Asperger%27s_editors" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:High-functioning autism and Asperger's editors">High-functioning autism and Asperger's editors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_be_civil" title="Wikipedia:How to be civil">How to be civil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Maintaining_a_friendly_space" title="Wikipedia:Maintaining a friendly space">Maintaining a friendly space</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Negotiation" title="Wikipedia:Negotiation">Negotiation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Editors_with_obsessive-compulsive_disorder" title="Wikipedia:Editors with obsessive-compulsive disorder">Obsessive–compulsive disorder editors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_say_please" title="Wikipedia:Please say please">Please say please</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Relationships_with_academic_editors" title="Wikipedia:Relationships with academic editors">Relationships with academic editors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Thank_you" title="Wikipedia:Thank you">Thank you</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Too_long;_didn%27t_read" title="Wikipedia:Too long; didn't read">Too long; didn't read</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Truce" title="Wikipedia:Truce">Truce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Unblock_perspectives" title="Wikipedia:Unblock perspectives">Unblock perspectives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:We_are_all_Wikipedians_here" title="Wikipedia:We are all Wikipedians here">We are all Wikipedians here</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:You_have_a_right_to_remain_silent" title="Wikipedia:You have a right to remain silent">You have a right to remain silent</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Philosophy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:A_thank_you_never_hurts" title="Wikipedia:A thank you never hurts">A thank you never hurts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:A_weak_personal_attack_is_still_wrong" title="Wikipedia:A weak personal attack is still wrong">A weak personal attack is still wrong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Advice_for_hotheads" title="Wikipedia:Advice for hotheads">Advice for hotheads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:An_uncivil_environment_is_a_poor_environment" title="Wikipedia:An uncivil environment is a poor environment">An uncivil environment is a poor environment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_the_glue" title="Wikipedia:Be the glue">Be the glue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Beware_of_the_tigers" title="Wikipedia:Beware of the tigers">Beware of the tigers!</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Civility_warnings" title="Wikipedia:Civility warnings">Civility warnings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overzealous_deletion#Dislike_of_the_creator" title="Wikipedia:Overzealous deletion">Deletion as revenge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Failure" title="Wikipedia:Failure">Failure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Forgive_and_forget" title="Wikipedia:Forgive and forget">Forgive and forget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:It%27s_not_the_end_of_the_world" title="Wikipedia:It's not the end of the world">It's not the end of the world</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Nobody_cares" title="Wikipedia:Nobody cares">Nobody cares</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_people_who_disagree_with_you_on_content_are_not_vandals" title="Wikipedia:Most people who disagree with you on content are not vandals">Most people who disagree with you on content are not vandals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Old-fashioned_Wikipedian_values" title="Wikipedia:Old-fashioned Wikipedian values">Old-fashioned Wikipedian values</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Profanity,_civility,_and_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Profanity, civility, and discussions">Profanity, civility, and discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Revert_notification_opt-out" title="Wikipedia:Revert notification opt-out">Revert notification opt-out</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shadowless_Fists_of_Death!" title="Wikipedia:Shadowless Fists of Death!">Shadowless Fists of Death!</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Staying_cool_when_the_editing_gets_hot" title="Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot">Staying cool when the editing gets hot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_grey_zone" title="Wikipedia:The grey zone">The grey zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Last_Word" title="Wikipedia:The Last Word">The last word</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_no_Divine_Right_of_Editors" title="Wikipedia:There is no Divine Right of Editors">There is no Divine Right of Editors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_ideas_are_bad" title="Wikipedia:Most ideas are bad">Most ideas are bad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Nothing_is_clear" title="Wikipedia:Nothing is clear">Nothing is clear</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reader" title="Wikipedia:Reader">Reader</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Rules_of_Polite_Discourse" title="Wikipedia:The Rules of Polite Discourse">The rules of polite discourse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_%22Ignore_all_rules%22_means#There_is_no_common_sense" title="Wikipedia:What "Ignore all rules" means">There is no common sense</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Two_wrongs_don%27t_make_a_right" title="Wikipedia:Two wrongs don't make a right">Two wrongs don't make a right</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_clich%C3%A9s" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia clichés">Wikipedia clichés</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_about_winning" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not about winning">Wikipedia is not about winning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_should_not_be_a_monopoly" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia should not be a monopoly">Wikipedia should not be a monopoly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_for_the_opponent" title="Wikipedia:Writing for the opponent">Writing for the opponent</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Dos</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume good faith">Assume good faith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_the_assumption_of_good_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume the assumption of good faith">Assume the assumption of good faith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_no_clue" title="Wikipedia:Assume no clue">Assume no clue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_personal_remarks" title="Wikipedia:Avoid personal remarks">Avoid personal remarks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_the_word_%22vandal%22" title="Wikipedia:Avoid the word "vandal"">Avoid the word "vandal"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_excellent_to_one_another" title="Wikipedia:Be excellent to one another">Be excellent to one another</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_pragmatic" title="Wikipedia:Be pragmatic">Be pragmatic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Beyond_civility" title="Wikipedia:Beyond civility">Beyond civility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Call_a_spade_a_spade" title="Wikipedia:Call a spade a spade">Call a spade a spade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Candor" title="Wikipedia:Candor">Candor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deny_recognition" title="Wikipedia:Deny recognition">Deny recognition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Desist" title="Wikipedia:Desist">Desist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Discussing_cruft" title="Wikipedia:Discussing cruft">Discussing cruft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Drop_the_stick_and_back_slowly_away_from_the_horse_carcass" title="Wikipedia:Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass">Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Encourage_full_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Encourage full discussions">Encourage full discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Get_over_it" title="Wikipedia:Get over it">Get over it</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_lose" title="Wikipedia:How to lose">How to lose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Imagine_others_complexly" title="Wikipedia:Imagine others complexly">Imagine others complexly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Just_drop_it" title="Wikipedia:Just drop it">Just drop it</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Keep_it_concise" title="Wikipedia:Keep it concise">Keep it concise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Keep_it_down_to_earth" title="Wikipedia:Keep it down to earth">Keep it down to earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Mind_your_own_business" title="Wikipedia:Mind your own business">Mind your own business</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:MOBY" title="Wikipedia:MOBY">Say "MOBY"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Mutual_withdrawal" title="Wikipedia:Mutual withdrawal">Mutual withdrawal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Read_before_commenting" title="Wikipedia:Read before commenting">Read before commenting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Settle_the_process_first" title="Wikipedia:Settle the process first">Settle the process first</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Don'ts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ALPHABETTISPAGHETTI" title="Wikipedia:ALPHABETTISPAGHETTI">ALPHABETTISPAGHETTI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Because_I_can" title="Wikipedia:Because I can">Wikipedia:Because I can</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Civil_POV_pushing" title="Wikipedia:Civil POV pushing">Civil POV pushing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Cyberbullying" title="Wikipedia:Cyberbullying">Cyberbullying</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_accuse_someone_of_a_personal_attack_for_accusing_of_a_personal_attack" title="Wikipedia:Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack">Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_a_fanatic" title="Wikipedia:Don't be a fanatic">Don't be a fanatic</a></li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_a_jerk" class="extiw" title="meta:Don't be a jerk">Don't be a jerk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_an_ostrich" title="Wikipedia:Don't be an ostrich">Don't be an ostrich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_ashamed" title="Wikipedia:Don't be ashamed">Don't be ashamed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_a_WikiBigot" title="Wikipedia:Don't be a WikiBigot">Don't be a WikiBigot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_high-maintenance" title="Wikipedia:Don't be high-maintenance">Don't be high-maintenance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_inconsiderate" title="Wikipedia:Don't be inconsiderate">Don't be inconsiderate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_obnoxious" title="Wikipedia:Don't be obnoxious">Don't be obnoxious</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_prejudiced" title="Wikipedia:Don't be prejudiced">Don't be prejudiced</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_rude" title="Wikipedia:Don't be rude">Don't be rude</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_be_the_Fun_Police" title="Wikipedia:Don't be the Fun Police">Don't be the Fun Police</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_bludgeon_the_process" title="Wikipedia:Don't bludgeon the process">Don't bludgeon the process</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_call_a_spade_a_spade" title="Wikipedia:Don't call a spade a spade">Don't call a spade a spade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_call_people_by_their_real_name" title="Wikipedia:Don't call people by their real name">Don't call people by their real name</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_call_the_kettle_black" title="Wikipedia:Don't call the kettle black">Don't call the kettle black</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Cruftcruft#Don't_call_things_cruft" title="Wikipedia:Cruftcruft">Don't call things cruft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_come_down_like_a_ton_of_bricks" title="Wikipedia:Don't come down like a ton of bricks">Don't come down like a ton of bricks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_cry_COI" title="Wikipedia:Don't cry COI">Don't cry COI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_demand_that_editors_solve_the_problems_they_identify" title="Wikipedia:Don't demand that editors solve the problems they identify">Don't demand that editors solve the problems they identify</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_drink_the_consensus_Kool-Aid" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Don't drink the consensus Kool-Aid">Don't drink the consensus Kool-Aid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_eat_the_troll%27s_food" title="Wikipedia:Don't eat the troll's food">Don't eat the troll's food</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_fight_fire_with_fire" title="Wikipedia:Don't fight fire with fire">Don't fight fire with fire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t-give-a-fuckism" title="Wikipedia:Don't-give-a-fuckism">Don't give a fuck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_help_too_much" title="Wikipedia:Don't help too much">Don't help too much</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_ignore_community_consensus" title="Wikipedia:Don't ignore community consensus">Don't ignore community consensus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_knit_beside_the_guillotine" title="Wikipedia:Don't knit beside the guillotine">Don't knit beside the guillotine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_make_a_smarmy_valediction_part_of_your_default_signature" title="Wikipedia:Don't make a smarmy valediction part of your default signature">Don't make a smarmy valediction part of your signature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_remind_others_of_past_misdeeds" title="Wikipedia:Don't remind others of past misdeeds">Don't remind others of past misdeeds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_don%27t_shout" title="Wikipedia:Please don't shout">Don't shout</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_spite_your_face" title="Wikipedia:Don't spite your face">Don't spite your face</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_take_the_bait" title="Wikipedia:Don't take the bait">Don't take the bait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_template_the_regulars" title="Wikipedia:Don't template the regulars">Don't template the regulars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_throw_your_toys_out_of_the_pram" title="Wikipedia:Don't throw your toys out of the pram">Don't throw your toys out of the pram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_insult_the_vandals" title="Wikipedia:Do not insult the vandals">Do not insult the vandals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Griefing" title="Wikipedia:Griefing">Griefing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Hate_is_disruptive" title="Wikipedia:Hate is disruptive">Hate is disruptive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Nationalist_editing" title="Wikipedia:Nationalist editing">Nationalist editing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_angry_mastodons" title="Wikipedia:No angry mastodons">No angry mastodons</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_angry_mastodons_just_madmen" title="Wikipedia:No angry mastodons just madmen">just madmen</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_Nazis" title="Wikipedia:No Nazis">No Nazis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_racists" title="Wikipedia:No racists">No racists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_Confederates" title="Wikipedia:No Confederates">No Confederates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_queerphobia" title="Wikipedia:No queerphobia">No queerphobia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No,_you_can%27t_have_a_pony" title="Wikipedia:No, you can't have a pony">No, you can't have a pony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Passive_aggression" title="Wikipedia:Passive aggression">Passive aggression</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:POV_railroad" title="Wikipedia:POV railroad">POV railroad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Superhatting" title="Wikipedia:Superhatting">Superhatting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:There_are_no_oracles" title="Wikipedia:There are no oracles">There are no oracles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:There%27s_no_need_to_guess_someone%27s_preferred_pronouns" title="Wikipedia:There's no need to guess someone's preferred pronouns">There's no need to guess someone's preferred pronouns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:You_can%27t_squeeze_blood_from_a_turnip" title="Wikipedia:You can't squeeze blood from a turnip">You can't squeeze blood from a turnip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:UPPERCASE" title="Wikipedia:UPPERCASE">UPPERCASE</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">WikiRelations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiBullying" title="Wikipedia:WikiBullying">WikiBullying</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCrime" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WikiCrime">WikiCrime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Harassment" title="Wikipedia:Harassment">WikiHarassment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiHate" title="Wikipedia:WikiHate">WikiHate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikilawyering" title="Wikipedia:Wikilawyering">WikiLawyering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiLove" title="Wikipedia:WikiLove">WikiLove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiPeace" title="Wikipedia:WikiPeace">WikiPeace</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd wraplinks" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible uncollapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Essays_on_notability" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Essay_directory#Notability" title="Wikipedia:Essay directory">Essays on notability</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Advanced_source_searching" title="Wikipedia:Advanced source searching">Advanced source searching</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:All_high_schools_can_be_notable" title="Wikipedia:All high schools can be notable">All high schools can be notable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Alternative_outlets" title="Wikipedia:Alternative outlets">Alternative outlets</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_with_a_single_source" title="Wikipedia:Articles with a single source">Articles with a single source</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_template_creep" title="Wikipedia:Avoid template creep">Avoid template creep</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bare_notability" title="Wikipedia:Bare notability">Bare notability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Big_events_make_key_participants_notable" title="Wikipedia:Big events make key participants notable">Big events make key participants notable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Businesses_with_a_single_location" title="Wikipedia:Businesses with a single location">Businesses with a single location</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:But_it%27s_true!" title="Wikipedia:But it's true!">But it's true!</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Common_sourcing_mistakes_(notability)" title="Wikipedia:Common sourcing mistakes (notability)">Common sourcing mistakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_clones" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia clones">Clones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Coatrack_articles" title="Wikipedia:Coatrack articles">Coatrack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Discriminate_vs_indiscriminate_information" title="Wikipedia:Discriminate vs indiscriminate information">Discriminate vs indiscriminate information</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_cite_GNG" title="Wikipedia:Don't cite GNG">Don't cite GNG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Drafts_are_not_checked_for_notability_or_sanity" title="Wikipedia:Drafts are not checked for notability or sanity">Drafts are not checked for notability or sanity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Every_snowflake_is_unique" title="Wikipedia:Every snowflake is unique">Every snowflake is unique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Existence_%E2%89%A0_Notability" title="Wikipedia:Existence ≠ Notability">Existence ≠ Notability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Existence_does_not_prove_notability" title="Wikipedia:Existence does not prove notability">Existence does not prove notability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Extracting_the_meaning_of_significant_coverage" title="Wikipedia:Extracting the meaning of significant coverage">Extracting the meaning of significant coverage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Google_searches_and_numbers" title="Wikipedia:Google searches and numbers">Google searches and numbers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_the_presumption_of_notability_works" title="Wikipedia:How the presumption of notability works">How the presumption of notability works</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(high_schools)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (high schools)">High Schools</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Historical_archive/Policy/Notability/Arguments" title="Wikipedia:Historical archive/Policy/Notability/Arguments">Historical/Policy/Notability/Arguments</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Inclusion_is_not_an_indicator_of_notability" title="Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability">Inclusion is not an indicator of notability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Independent_sources" title="Wikipedia:Independent sources">Independent sources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Inherent_notability" title="Wikipedia:Inherent notability">Inherent notability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Insignificant" title="Wikipedia:Insignificant">Insignificant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Masking_the_lack_of_notability" title="Wikipedia:Masking the lack of notability">Masking the lack of notability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Make_stubs" title="Wikipedia:Make stubs">Make stubs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Minimum_coverage" title="Wikipedia:Minimum coverage">Minimum coverage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:News_coverage_does_not_decrease_notability" title="Wikipedia:News coverage does not decrease notability">News coverage does not decrease notability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_amount_of_editing_can_overcome_a_lack_of_notability" title="Wikipedia:No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability">No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_big_loss" title="Wikipedia:No big loss">No big loss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_one_cares_about_your_garage_band" title="Wikipedia:No one cares about your garage band">No one cares about your garage band</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_one_really_cares" title="Wikipedia:No one really cares">No one really cares</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_cannot_be_purchased" title="Wikipedia:Notability cannot be purchased">Notability cannot be purchased</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_comparison_test" title="Wikipedia:Notability comparison test">Notability comparison test</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_is_not_a_level_playing_field" title="Wikipedia:Notability is not a level playing field">Notability is not a level playing field</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_is_not_a_matter_of_opinion" title="Wikipedia:Notability is not a matter of opinion">Notability is not a matter of opinion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_is_not_relevance_or_reliability" title="Wikipedia:Notability is not relevance or reliability">Notability is not relevance or reliability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_means_impact" title="Wikipedia:Notability means impact">Notability means impact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_points" title="Wikipedia:Notability points">Notability points</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_sub-pages" title="Wikipedia:Notability sub-pages">Notability sub-pages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notabilitymandering" title="Wikipedia:Notabilitymandering">Notabilitymandering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Not_every_single_thing_Donald_Trump_does_deserves_an_article" title="Wikipedia:Not every single thing Donald Trump does deserves an article">Not every single thing Donald Trump does deserves an article</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Obscure_does_not_mean_not_notable" title="Wikipedia:Obscure does not mean not notable">Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Offline_sources" title="Wikipedia:Offline sources">Offline sources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:One_hundred_words" title="Wikipedia:One hundred words">One hundred words</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:One_sentence_does_not_an_article_make" title="Wikipedia:One sentence does not an article make">One sentence does not an article make</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Other_stuff_exists" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Other stuff exists">Other stuff exists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overreliance_upon_Google" title="Wikipedia:Overreliance upon Google">Overreliance upon Google</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links/Perennial_websites" title="Wikipedia:External links/Perennial websites">Perennial websites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Read_the_source" title="Wikipedia:Read the source">Read the source</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reducing_consensus_to_an_algorithm" title="Wikipedia:Reducing consensus to an algorithm">Reducing consensus to an algorithm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Run-of-the-mill" title="Wikipedia:Run-of-the-mill">Run-of-the-mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:On_Wikipedia,_solutions_are_mixtures_and_nothing_else" title="Wikipedia:On Wikipedia, solutions are mixtures and nothing else">Solutions are mixtures and nothing else</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sources_must_be_out-of-universe" title="Wikipedia:Sources must be out-of-universe">Sources must be out-of-universe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Subjective_importance" title="Wikipedia:Subjective importance">Subjective importance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Independent_sources" title="Wikipedia:Independent sources">Third-party sources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Trivial_mentions" title="Wikipedia:Trivial mentions">Trivial mentions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Video_links" title="Wikipedia:Video links">Video links</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Vanispamcruftisement" title="Wikipedia:Vanispamcruftisement">Vanispamcruftisement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_BLP1E_is_not" title="Wikipedia:What BLP1E is not">What BLP1E is not</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_and_is_not_routine_coverage" title="Wikipedia:What is and is not routine coverage">What is and is not routine coverage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_notability_is_not" title="Wikipedia:What notability is not">What notability is not</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_to_include" title="Wikipedia:What to include">What to include</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_Crunchbase" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not Crunchbase">Wikipedia is not Crunchbase</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_here_to_tell_the_world_about_your_noble_cause" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause">Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_the_place_to_post_your_r%C3%A9sum%C3%A9" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not the place to post your résumé">Wikipedia is not the place to post your résumé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Two_prongs_of_merit" title="Wikipedia:Two prongs of merit">Two prongs of merit</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd wraplinks" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Humorous_essays" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Essay_directory#Humorous_material" title="Wikipedia:Essay directory">Humorous essays</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Adminitis" title="Wikipedia:Adminitis">Adminitis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Ain%27t_no_rules_says_a_dog_can%27t_play_basketball" title="Wikipedia:Ain't no rules says a dog can't play basketball">Ain't no rules says a dog can't play basketball</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Akin%27s_Laws_of_Article_Writing" title="Wikipedia:Akin's Laws of Article Writing">Akin's Laws of Article Writing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Alternatives_to_edit_warring" title="Wikipedia:Alternatives to edit warring">Alternatives to edit warring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ANI_flu" title="Wikipedia:ANI flu">ANI flu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Anti-Wikipedian" title="Wikipedia:Anti-Wikipedian">Anti-Wikipedian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Anti-Wikipedianism" title="Wikipedia:Anti-Wikipedianism">Anti-Wikipedianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articlecountitis" title="Wikipedia:Articlecountitis">Articlecountitis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Asshole_John_rule" title="Wikipedia:Asshole John rule">Asshole John rule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_bad_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume bad faith">Assume bad faith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume faith">Assume faith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_wraith" title="Wikipedia:Assume good wraith">Assume good wraith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_stupidity" title="Wikipedia:Assume stupidity">Assume stupidity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_that_everyone%27s_assuming_good_faith,_assuming_that_you_are_assuming_good_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith">Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_using_preview_button" title="Wikipedia:Avoid using preview button">Avoid using preview button</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_using_wikilinks" title="Wikipedia:Avoid using wikilinks">Avoid using wikilinks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Silly_Things" title="Wikipedia:Silly Things">Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Barnstaritis" title="Wikipedia:Barnstaritis">Barnstaritis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Before_they_were_notable" title="Wikipedia:Before they were notable">Before they were notable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD,_revert,_revert,_revert" title="Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, revert, revert">BOLD, revert, revert, revert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Boston_Tea_Party" title="Wikipedia:Boston Tea Party">Boston Tea Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Butterfly_effect" title="Wikipedia:Butterfly effect">Butterfly effect</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CaPiTaLiZaTiOn_MuCh%3F" title="Wikipedia:CaPiTaLiZaTiOn MuCh?">CaPiTaLiZaTiOn MuCh?</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Complete_bollocks" title="Wikipedia:Complete bollocks">Complete bollocks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Counting_forks" title="Wikipedia:Counting forks">Counting forks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Counting_juntas" title="Wikipedia:Counting juntas">Counting juntas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Crap" title="Wikipedia:Crap">Crap</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_stuff_beans_up_your_nose" title="Wikipedia:Don't stuff beans up your nose">Don't stuff beans up your nose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t-give-a-fuckism" title="Wikipedia:Don't-give-a-fuckism">Don't-give-a-fuckism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_abbreviate_%22Wikipedia%22_as_%22Wiki%22!" title="Wikipedia:Don't abbreviate "Wikipedia" as "Wiki"!">Don't abbreviate "Wikipedia" as "Wiki"!</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_delete_the_main_page" title="Wikipedia:Don't delete the main page">Don't delete the main page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Editcountitis" title="Wikipedia:Editcountitis">Editcountitis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edits_Per_Day" title="Wikipedia:Edits Per Day">Edits Per Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Editsummarisis" title="Wikipedia:Editsummarisis">Editsummarisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_under_the_influence" title="Wikipedia:Editing under the influence">Editing under the influence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Embrace_Stop_Signs" title="Wikipedia:Embrace Stop Signs">Embrace Stop Signs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Emerson_and_Wilde_on_consistency" title="Wikipedia:Emerson and Wilde on consistency">Emerson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Fart" title="Wikipedia:Fart">Fart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_five_Fs_of_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:The five Fs of Wikipedia">Five Fs of Wikipedia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Seven_ages_of_editor" title="Wikipedia:Seven ages of editor">Seven Ages of Editor, by Will E. Spear-Shake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Go_ahead,_vandalize" title="Wikipedia:Go ahead, vandalize">Go ahead, vandalize</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_many_Wikipedians_does_it_take_to_change_a_lightbulb%3F" title="Wikipedia:How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?">How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_get_away_with_UPE" title="Wikipedia:How to get away with UPE">How to get away with UPE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_put_up_a_straight_pole_by_pushing_it_at_an_angle" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an angle">How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an angle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_vandalize_correctly" title="Wikipedia:How to vandalize correctly">How to vandalize correctly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_win_a_citation_war" title="Wikipedia:How to win a citation war">How to win a citation war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_essays" title="Wikipedia:Ignore all essays">Ignore all essays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_every_single_rule" title="Wikipedia:Ignore every single rule">Ignore every single rule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Is_that_even_an_essay%3F" title="Wikipedia:Is that even an essay?">Is that even an essay?</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Mess_with_the_templates" title="Wikipedia:Mess with the templates">Mess with the templates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:My_local_pond" title="Wikipedia:My local pond">My local pond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Newcomers_are_delicious,_so_go_ahead_and_bite_them" title="Wikipedia:Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them">Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Legal_vandalism" title="Wikipedia:Legal vandalism">Legal vandalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_jokes_about_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:List of jokes about Wikipedia">List of jokes about Wikipedia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Let%27s_try_to_avoid_using_too_many_acronyms,_okay%3F" title="Wikipedia:Let's try to avoid using too many acronyms, okay?">LTTAUTMAOK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_climbing_the_Reichstag_dressed_as_Spider-Man" title="Wikipedia:No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man">No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_episcopal_threats" title="Wikipedia:No episcopal threats">No episcopal threats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_one_cares_about_your_garage_band" title="Wikipedia:No one cares about your garage band">No one cares about your garage band</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_one_really_cares" title="Wikipedia:No one really cares">No one really cares</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No,_really" title="Wikipedia:No, really">No, really</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_sorcery_threats" title="Wikipedia:No sorcery threats">No sorcery threats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_is_not_eternal" title="Wikipedia:Notability is not eternal">Notability is not eternal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Oops_Defense" title="Wikipedia:Oops Defense">Oops Defense</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Play_the_game" title="Wikipedia:Play the game">Play the game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_be_a_giant_dick,_so_we_can_ban_you" title="Wikipedia:Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you">Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_bite_the_newbies" title="Wikipedia:Please bite the newbies">Please bite the newbies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_murder_the_newcomers" title="Wikipedia:Please do not murder the newcomers">Please do not murder the newcomers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Pledge_of_Tranquility" title="Wikipedia:Pledge of Tranquility">Pledge of Tranquility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:R-e-s-p-e-c-t" title="Wikipedia:R-e-s-p-e-c-t">R-e-s-p-e-c-t</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_medication" title="Wikipedia:Requests for medication">Requests for medication</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requirements_for_adminship" title="Wikipedia:Requirements for adminship">Requirements for adminship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Rouge_admin" title="Wikipedia:Rouge admin">Rouge admin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Rouge_editor" title="Wikipedia:Rouge editor">Rouge editor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sarcasm_is_really_helpful" title="Wikipedia:Sarcasm is really helpful">Sarcasm is really helpful</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sausages_for_tasting" title="Wikipedia:Sausages for tasting">Sausages for tasting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Night_Before_Wikimas" title="Wikipedia:The Night Before Wikimas">The Night Before Wikimas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_first_rule_of_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:The first rule of Wikipedia">The first rule of Wikipedia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Five_Pillars_of_Untruth" title="Wikipedia:The Five Pillars of Untruth">The Five Pillars of Untruth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Things_that_should_not_be_surprising" title="Wikipedia:Things that should not be surprising">Things that should not be surprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiBible" title="Wikipedia:WikiBible">The WikiBible</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Watchlistitis" title="Wikipedia:Watchlistitis">Watchlistitis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_an_MMORPG" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is an MMORPG">Wikipedia is an MMORPG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not/Outtakes" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not/Outtakes">What Wikipedia is not/Outtakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_not_create_an_account%3F" title="Wikipedia:Why not create an account?">Why not create an account?</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Yes_legal_threats" title="Wikipedia:Yes legal threats">Yes legal threats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:You_don%27t_have_to_be_mad_to_work_here,_but" title="Wikipedia:You don't have to be mad to work here, but">You don't have to be mad to work here, but</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:You_should_not_write_meaningless_lists" title="Wikipedia:You should not write meaningless lists">You should not write meaningless lists</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd wraplinks" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="About_essays" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Essay_directory#About_essays" title="Wikipedia:Essay directory">About essays</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">About essays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_essays" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia essays">Essay guide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_value_of_essays" title="Wikipedia:The value of essays">Value of essays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_difference_between_policies,_guidelines_and_essays" title="Wikipedia:The difference between policies, guidelines and essays">Difference between policies, guidelines and essays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_cite_essays_or_proposals_as_if_they_were_policy" title="Wikipedia:Don't cite essays or proposals as if they were policy">Don't cite essays as if they were policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_writing_redundant_essays" title="Wikipedia:Avoid writing redundant essays">Avoid writing redundant essays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Essay_directory" title="Wikipedia:Essay directory">Finding an essay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Quote_your_own_essay" title="Wikipedia:Quote your own essay">Quote your own essay</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Policies and guidelines</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">About policies and guidelines</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies" title="Wikipedia:List of policies">Policies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:List of guidelines">Guidelines</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_contribute_to_Wikipedia_guidance" title="Wikipedia:How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance">How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Policy_writing_is_hard" title="Wikipedia:Policy writing is hard">Policy writing is hard</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Common_fallacies_(list)" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Fallacies" title="Template:Fallacies"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Fallacies" title="Template talk:Fallacies"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Fallacies" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Fallacies"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Common_fallacies_(list)" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Common <a href="/wiki/Fallacy" title="Fallacy">fallacies</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_fallacies" title="List of fallacies">list</a>)</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Formal_fallacy" title="Formal fallacy">Formal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">In <a href="/wiki/Propositional_calculus" title="Propositional calculus">propositional logic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Affirming_a_disjunct" title="Affirming a disjunct">Affirming a disjunct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent" title="Affirming the consequent">Affirming the consequent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent" title="Denying the antecedent">Denying the antecedent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy" title="Argument from fallacy">Argument from fallacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masked-man_fallacy" title="Masked-man fallacy">Masked man</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mathematical_fallacy" title="Mathematical fallacy">Mathematical fallacy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">In <a href="/wiki/Quantifier_(logic)" title="Quantifier (logic)">quantificational logic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Existential_fallacy" title="Existential fallacy">Existential</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent" title="Affirming the consequent">Illicit conversion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proof_by_example" title="Proof by example">Proof by example</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quantifier_shift" title="Quantifier shift">Quantifier shift</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Syllogistic_fallacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Syllogistic fallacy">Syllogistic fallacy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Affirmative_conclusion_from_a_negative_premise" title="Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise">Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Negative_conclusion_from_affirmative_premises" title="Negative conclusion from affirmative premises">Negative conclusion from affirmative premises</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_exclusive_premises" title="Fallacy of exclusive premises">Exclusive premises</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Existential_fallacy" title="Existential fallacy">Existential</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modal_scope_fallacy" title="Modal scope fallacy">Necessity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_four_terms" title="Fallacy of four terms">Four terms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illicit_major" title="Illicit major">Illicit major</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illicit_minor" title="Illicit minor">Illicit minor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_the_undistributed_middle" title="Fallacy of the undistributed middle">Undistributed middle</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Informal_fallacy" title="Informal fallacy">Informal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Equivocation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Equivocation" title="Equivocation">Equivocation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/False_equivalence" title="False equivalence">False equivalence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/False_attribution" title="False attribution">False attribution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quoting_out_of_context" title="Quoting out of context">Quoting out of context</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loki%27s_Wager" class="mw-redirect" title="Loki's Wager">Loki's Wager</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/No_true_Scotsman" title="No true Scotsman">No true Scotsman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reification_(fallacy)" title="Reification (fallacy)">Reification</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Question-begging</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Circular_reasoning" title="Circular reasoning">Circular reasoning</a> / <a href="/wiki/Begging_the_question" title="Begging the question">Begging the question</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loaded_language" title="Loaded language">Loaded language</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leading_question" title="Leading question">Leading question</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Double-barreled_question" title="Double-barreled question">Compound question</a> / <a href="/wiki/Loaded_question" title="Loaded question">Loaded question</a> / <a href="/wiki/Complex_question" title="Complex question">Complex question</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/No_true_Scotsman" title="No true Scotsman">No true Scotsman</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Correlative-based_fallacies" title="Correlative-based fallacies">Correlative-based</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/False_dilemma" title="False dilemma">False dilemma</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy" title="Nirvana fallacy">Perfect solution</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denying_the_correlative" title="Denying the correlative">Denying the correlative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suppressed_correlative" title="Suppressed correlative">Suppressed correlative</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Fallacies_of_illicit_transference" title="Fallacies of illicit transference">Illicit transference</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition" title="Fallacy of composition">Composition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_division" title="Fallacy of division">Division</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecological_fallacy" title="Ecological fallacy">Ecological</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/Secundum_quid" title="Secundum quid">Secundum quid</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Accident_(fallacy)" title="Accident (fallacy)">Accident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Converse_accident" title="Converse accident">Converse accident</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Faulty_generalization" title="Faulty generalization">Faulty generalization</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence" title="Anecdotal evidence">Anecdotal evidence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sampling_bias" title="Sampling bias">Sampling bias</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cherry_picking" title="Cherry picking">Cherry picking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McNamara_fallacy" title="McNamara fallacy">McNamara</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy" title="Base rate fallacy">Base rate</a> / <a href="/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy" title="Conjunction fallacy">Conjunction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Double_counting_(fallacy)" title="Double counting (fallacy)">Double counting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argument_from_analogy" title="Argument from analogy">False analogy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slothful_induction" title="Slothful induction">Slothful induction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Overwhelming_exception" title="Overwhelming exception">Overwhelming exception</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ambiguity" title="Ambiguity">Ambiguity</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_accent" title="Fallacy of accent">Accent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/False_precision" title="False precision">False precision</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts" title="Moving the goalposts">Moving the goalposts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quoting_out_of_context" title="Quoting out of context">Quoting out of context</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slippery_slope" title="Slippery slope">Slippery slope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sorites_paradox" title="Sorites paradox">Sorites paradox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity" title="Syntactic ambiguity">Syntactic ambiguity</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Questionable_cause" title="Questionable cause">Questionable cause</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Animistic_fallacy" title="Animistic fallacy">Animistic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Furtive_fallacy" title="Furtive fallacy">Furtive</a></li></ul></li> <li>Correlation implies causation <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation" title="Correlation does not imply causation">Cum hoc</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc" title="Post hoc ergo propter hoc">Post hoc</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy" title="Gambler's fallacy">Gambler's</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Inverse_gambler%27s_fallacy" title="Inverse gambler's fallacy">Inverse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regression_fallacy" title="Regression fallacy">Regression</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_the_single_cause" title="Fallacy of the single cause">Single cause</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slippery_slope" title="Slippery slope">Slippery slope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy" title="Texas sharpshooter fallacy">Texas sharpshooter</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Appeals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_the_law" title="Appeal to the law">Law/Legality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone" title="Appeal to the stone">Stone</a> / <a href="/wiki/Proof_by_assertion" title="Proof by assertion">Proof by assertion</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences" title="Appeal to consequences">Consequences</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_baculum" title="Argumentum ad baculum">Argumentum ad baculum</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wishful_thinking" title="Wishful thinking">Wishful thinking</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion" title="Appeal to emotion">Emotion</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Think_of_the_children" title="Think of the children">Children</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_fear" title="Appeal to fear">Fear</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_flattery" title="Appeal to flattery">Flattery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_novelty" title="Appeal to novelty">Novelty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_pity" title="Appeal to pity">Pity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_ridicule" title="Appeal to ridicule">Ridicule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/In-group_favoritism" title="In-group favoritism">In-group favoritism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Invented_here" title="Invented here">Invented here</a> / <a href="/wiki/Not_invented_here" title="Not invented here">Not invented here</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Island_mentality" title="Island mentality">Island mentality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_loyalty" title="Appeal to loyalty">Loyalty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parade_of_horribles" title="Parade of horribles">Parade of horribles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_spite" class="mw-redirect" title="Appeal to spite">Spite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flag-waving" title="Flag-waving">Stirring symbols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wisdom_of_repugnance" title="Wisdom of repugnance">Wisdom of repugnance</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Genetic_fallacy" title="Genetic fallacy">Genetic fallacy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Ad_hominem" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/Ad_hominem" title="Ad hominem">Ad hominem</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_motive" title="Appeal to motive">Appeal to motive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Association_fallacy" title="Association fallacy">Association</a> <ul><li><i><a 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<li><i><a href="/wiki/Ipse_dixit" title="Ipse dixit">Ipse dixit</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_lazarum" title="Argumentum ad lazarum">Poverty</a> / <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_crumenam" title="Argumentum ad crumenam">Wealth</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Etymological_fallacy" title="Etymological fallacy">Etymology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_nature" title="Appeal to nature">Nature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition" title="Appeal to tradition">Tradition</a> / <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_novelty" title="Appeal to novelty">Novelty</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chronological_snobbery" title="Chronological snobbery">Chronological snobbery</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other <a href="/wiki/Fallacy_of_relevance" class="mw-redirect" title="Fallacy of relevance">fallacies<br /> of relevance</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list 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see the <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portal" title="Wikipedia:Community portal">Community portal</a></b>.<br />For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Dashboard" title="Wikipedia:Dashboard">Dashboard</a></b>.</i></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:About" title="Wikipedia:About">General community<br />topics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administration" title="Wikipedia:Administration">Administration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:News" title="Wikipedia:News">News</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost">The Signpost</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Goings-on" title="Wikipedia:Goings-on">Goings-on</a></li> <li><a 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title="Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)">Policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)">Proposals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)">Technical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)">Miscellaneous</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF)">WMF</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_holidays" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia holidays">Holidays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots" title="Wikipedia:Bots">Bots</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents" title="Wikipedia:Contents">Contents</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Content_assessment" title="Wikipedia:Content assessment">grading</a></th><td 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candidates">Pictures</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_and_good_topic_candidates" title="Wikipedia:Featured and good topic candidates">Topics</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Translation" title="Wikipedia:Translation">Article translation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Pages_needing_translation_into_English" title="Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English">Pages</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talk:Main_Page" title="Talk:Main Page">Main Page</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Main_Page/Errors" title="Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors">Errors</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject">WikiProjects</a><br />and <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_collaborations" title="Category:Wikipedia collaborations">collaborations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory">Directory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/Culture" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture">Culture and the arts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/Geographical" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Geographical">Geographical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/History_and_society" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/History and society">History and society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/Science" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Science">Science, technology and engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Wikipedia">Wikipedia assistance and 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