Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2020 October 21
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:{{DRV links|Escola Portuguesa de Luanda|xfd_page=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Escola_Portuguesa_de_Luanda|article=}} I'd like the keep over turned to no consensus and to be able to relist the article. As I've had problems with the closer in the past and the close was clearly due to our prior issues with each and not anything else. Otherwise, he would have just relisted it. Not that it should matter to the AfD process, but just an FYI the "personal attack" he referenced in the close that I supposedly made was me responding to {{reply to|Phil Bridger}} who has accused me multiple times, including in the AfD and after it, of being a racist simply for editing articles related to African subjects. Which for some strange reason {{reply to|Ritchie333}} didn't account for when closing the AfD and generally doesn't seem to have a problem with. I should be able to respond to someone who has repeatedly insinuated I'm a racist, including in the AfD, without having to worry that my AfDs are going to be closed for doing so. Especially if it's one where the person is making the insinuations. --Adamant1 (talk) 22:56, 21 October 2020 (UTC) Adamant1 (talk) 22:56, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
::The evidence is that he said he had already warned me about personal attacks. I don't see how you can say him specifically mentioning our past issues in the close doesn't show that it had anything to do with them. Otherwise, he would have just left that part out. Plus, Bridger said some clearly rude things that he never called out when he called my behavior out. So, he clearly wasn't being impartial about things and was targeting me. --Adamant1 (talk) 23:29, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
:Secondly, an AfD is not a place to discuss anyone's behavior but can be used to point out a history of issues, not on the AfD, but elsewhere. I don't know, Adamant, so to say or insinuate they are racist is a big deal. I can see where they would be upset if it was perceived that way. As a side note: A person can use biased and even racist language without being a racist themselves. Not saying Phil did that or Adamant is that. If anyone feels like the inflammatory language used by a specific editor goes too far, like possibly over multiple discussions they have with others, then that should be brought up on an admin discussion board. --Tsistunagiska (talk) 17:24, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
::{{reply to|SmokeyJoe}} I used "seem" in the nomination to maybe help combat the near endless attacks by the "inclusionist" crowd when they found a source that the nominator didn't do a BEFORE. I would think you'd have a less petty reason to endorse a close. Last time I checked there are no rules about what words someone can use in a nomination. There's nothing wrong with someone saying "from what I can tell there are no sources" and it's an extremely banal to act like there is. --Adamant1 (talk) 04:31, 23 October 2020 (UTC) ::: {{User|Adamant1}}, have you read WP:RENOM? The use of “seems” makes you sound uncommitted to your own opinion. I endorse the close as an obvious endorse, the nomination didn’t persuade anyone. -SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:37, 23 October 2020 (UTC) ::: There is indeed something wrong with saying "from what I can tell there are no sources". That statement is empty rhetoric. To give it substance, say what you did to look for sources. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:48, 23 October 2020 (UTC) ::::I'm good with that. There should be an assumption of good faith that the nominator did their due diligence looking for sources if they say they did without them having to list every search term they used, database they looked through, key one their keyboard they pressed, etc. etc. It's not a "empty rhetoric" for someone to say they looked for sources. If they did, then its just statement of fact and claiming otherwise is just nitpicking as a way to dismiss for no reason another persons work offhand as not valid. Even if nominators list exactly what they did people will just find another petty reason to dismiss their nomination anyway. So, personally, I'm not going to waste my time on it. Nor do I have to. --Adamant1 (talk) 06:04, 23 October 2020 (UTC) ::::: OK, good. On wording advice, I would say: change “ This school doesn't seem notable.” to “This school is not notable, because there are no non-primary sources”, and keep the rest. Admittedly this is small wording, but I notice that it affects the flow of the discussion. After that, more importantly, is User:AleatoryPonderings’ (06:15, 7 September 2020) eight sources. It’s tedious, but it requires a source by source analysis. Minimally, examine the first WP:THREE, and if all 3 fail, he is rebutted. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 06:25, 23 October 2020 (UTC) ::::::The problem is then I'd saying it's an absolute and that I'm authority on what's notable. Neither of which would be the case. WP:AFD explicitly says "Articles for deletion (AfD) is where Wikipedians discuss whether an article should be deleted." If anyone could 100% say for certain that something is notable or not, then there would be no need for a discussion about it. Notability isn't a black and white thing anyway and obviously anyone who takes an position one way or another is just giving their opinion. If you want to talk about "empty rhetoric", saying you know for sure something isn't notable is the epitome of it. --Adamant1 (talk) 07:11, 23 October 2020 (UTC) ::::::: Yeah I get what your saying. Wikipedia-notability is confusing. I point to the WP:GNG being a set of objective criteria. Go through each source. It is reliable and reputable published (eg not a blog, not youtube). Does it make comment about the topic, minimum about two running sentences for a maybe. Is the publication, and it’s author(s), independent of the topic? When someone lists a bunch of putative notability attesting sources, you have to start by explaining why they don’t. In this AfD, that analysis didn’t happen, and the discussion derailed, and so “delete” was not a possible close. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 10:00, 23 October 2020 (UTC) ::::::::FWIW I got into the habit of writing "seems" and "appears" in my AFD noms after repeatedly being accused of lying for saying, e.g. something didn't meet GNG or that searching Google news didn't bring up any GNG-satisfying sources. Lev!vich 02:48, 24 October 2020 (UTC) ::::::::: “accused of lying” is incivilly strong, but otherwise thats unsurprising. Be specific and measured, and reproducible, eg “the top ten google news hits include no GNG-meeting sources”, and even then, it’s better to point to the specific aspect of failure, non reliable, non independent, none providing direct comment on the topic. I think it is fair that the onus for the most work lies with the nominator, otherwise use the article talk page. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 07:54, 24 October 2020 (UTC) ::::::::::You mean do a source analysis pointing to specific aspects of failure, like this? What's the response? From Phil: {{tqq|The fact that the nominator says that it "appears to be a paid death notice" when the very link that he provided shows that it is in fact an obituary casts severe doubt on whether we can believe all his other statements above.}} There's Phil, finding one mistake, and saying I cannot be believed because of it. Mmm. Here is one without a source analysis, in which I'm accused of ignoring BEFORE. Meanwhile, here are some where there is no source analysis at all, and it's just straight delete. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/David_Purser] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mike_Pertz] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Gabriel_Mercier]. With those ones, nobody attacked me because nobody disagreed with the nom. The point is: it's not the nomination statement that makes a difference, Joe, it's the participants. Some participants routinely attack nominators no matter what. And it'd be great if AFD closers and DRV participants would pay attention and help improve the toxicity of AFDs. (Rather than blame the victim.) Lev!vich 14:22, 24 October 2020 (UTC) :::::::::::: User:Levivich, you have my sympathy for sure. But sorry. “Does not appear” is not a good nom lede, and it invites criticism of the nominator. Unfairly perhaps. On that article, it is WP:PROF. Few seem to appreciate ... WP:PROF *predates* and enjoys independent consensus to “Wikipedia-notability”, and it specifically is the sole SNG with consensus for keeping topics that fail the WP:GNG as written, black letter literalistic reading. Seventy year old academics with over 100 publications will have their biography kept even if no one ever has written about them. Why do people attack? I think people go on the attack when the ground rules are so unclear. My answer: Do not talk GNG on PROF articles. I have put a lot of effort on Wikipedia into understand Wikipedia-notability including WP:PROF and including lengthy discussions with the two David’s, and it’s hard to explain, but they are right. I suggest staying away from academics if you are not connected to academics. Feel free to AfD fake academics, such as recent graduates with an h index under ten or twenty, and who do not have a university staff page and lab page. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:57, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
:::{{reply to|Robert McClenon}} see my response to SmokeyJoe. --Adamant1 (talk) 04:31, 23 October 2020 (UTC) :::: - Or don't see the bludgeoning of the DRV process by User:Adamant1. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:57, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
::I thought that it was easier to do a second AfD eventually if an article is closed as no consensus. Which is the only reason I did the DvR. If that's the case, then my bad. If so though,then it does matter which flavor of close there is. Adamant1 (talk) 17:52, 23 October 2020 (UTC) :::Whether an article was correctly deleted is decided on the basis of the AfD discussion, not the wish of the nominator to nominate once again an article on a school in Africa. Can you please explain why you consider schools in Africa to be less notable than those in Western Anglophone countries, because I still cant see a valid reason for your campaign against them. And, no, my reference to "Western Anglophone countries" is not racist at all, despite your comment in the AfD that it is "semi-racist" and something that has no "meaning or usefulness outside of Klan rally". Phil Bridger (talk) 18:33, 23 October 2020 (UTC) ::::If it's not racism, then what did "I can't help feeling that there is an unsavoury agenda here" refer to? What was the unsavory agenda you couldn't help feeling? Lev!vich 19:09, 23 October 2020 (UTC) :::::That's a separate issue. My comment above was, very clearly if you read it, a rebuttal of the nominator's explicit claim that referring to "Western Anglophone countries" is racist. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:15, 23 October 2020 (UTC) ::::::I see, so you insinuated racism, just in a different quote. Lev!vich 19:30, 23 October 2020 (UTC) :::::::This is outside the remit of DRV. If you think there are behavioural problems which need to be addressed, you know where ANI is (though I personally find nothing wrong with what Phil's actions.) SportingFlyer T·C 17:44, 24 October 2020 (UTC) ::::::::I reported him to ANI. Hopefully that will deal with things. Since he seems completely unwilling at this point to give up the smear campaign on his own. --Adamant1 (talk) 17:54, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
::Obviously I would have waited the obligatory six months. I'll still probably renominate it anyway. Last time I checked, I can do that. People re-nominate articles all the time. I just thought no-consensus was a "truer" outcome because the only keep vote was a "weak keep." I could ultimately care less either way though. --Adamant1 (talk) 22:29, 23 October 2020 (UTC) ::Um... what? A policy that says {{tq|it can be disruptive...}} should not be interpreted to mean that a re-nomination is always disruptive in every possible circumstance. LEPRICAVARK (talk) 20:05, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
::Personally, I've been of the opinion for a while now that one of the main reasons keep voters (including you) spew vitriol everywhere is because it turns off delete voters, who clearly don't appreciate it or want it pointed toward them, from participating. Really, I can't say I blame or anyone else who does it. Since it's clearly effective and realistically 99% of the time spewing vitriol to turn off anyone from voting delete is the only way the articles you do it in are kept. Plus, it's not like there's ever any consequences for it. So..... --Adamant1 (talk) 20:14, 24 October 2020 (UTC) :::I can't imagine what you mean, or why it would be relevant here. — Toughpigs (talk) 20:34, 24 October 2020 (UTC) ::::I'm sure you can. It was relevant as a response to your comment that AfDs discussions can't be "poisoned." Their poisoned all the time by the almost endless personal attacks and other disparaging messages you and other keep voters write. I'm sure you and the other people wouldn't make the comments in the first place if they had zero effect on things. It wasn't just a single sentence in this case either. Phil Bridger wrote multiple disparaging comments. --Adamant1 (talk) 20:39, 24 October 2020 (UTC) :::::You're complaining about being warned for making personal attacks. You are now launching personal attacks at me, with no evidence. How does this prove that you are a victim in this case? — Toughpigs (talk) 20:49, 24 October 2020 (UTC) ::::::No, I'm complaining that an AfD with only a single weak keep vote was closed as keep. When IMO it should be closed as no consensus. Which I've been extremely clear about. As far as if my comment is "making personal attacks", it's just a fact, supported by clear evidence, that almost every other comment made by you and other keep voters in AfDs are either direct personal attacks or some other kind of slight. In no is that a personal attack any more then me saying Phil Bridger insinuated I'm a racist is, it's just reality. --Adamant1 (talk) 20:59, 24 October 2020 (UTC) :::::::You say that you have clear evidence. Can you show me any evidence that "almost every other comment" made by me in AfD discussions is a direct personal attack on you? — Toughpigs (talk) 21:04, 24 October 2020 (UTC) ::::::::No, because I didn't say the comments were just directed toward me. You do seem to have a habit of Strawmaning though. --Adamant1 (talk) 21:17, 24 October 2020 (UTC) :::::::::Would you like to retract your statement above that I "spew vitriol everywhere"? — Toughpigs (talk) 21:37, 24 October 2020 (UTC) ::::::::::Would you like to not make back handed comments in your votes like "I apologize if anyone finds this comment mentally taxing" anymore? Until that happens, no I wouldn't. --Adamant1 (talk) 21:42, 24 October 2020 (UTC) :::::::::::Very well. — Toughpigs (talk) 21:43, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
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:{{DRV links|Calamba Medical Center|xfd_page=Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Calamba Medical Center|article=}} The discussion was closed as "delete". There were only 2 votes: 1 delete and 1 keep (voted by yours truly). The rationale of the other who voted to delete it isn't strong enough to establish a consensus for deletion. He stated that references in the article are missing when, in fact, anyone can find sources about it. It was relisted once, but no one participated aside from the nominator who responded to my vote. IMV, the discussion should've been overturned as no consensus or, better yet, relisted for the second time. ASTIG😎 (ICE T • ICE CUBE) 08:50, 21 October 2020 (UTC) :*Wikipedia's declining editor numbers mean that some discussions attract low participation nowadays and we can't just keep relisting multiple times, because that sucks attention away from other discussions which will themselves need to be relisted, creating a snowballing problem of lack of AfD participation. It's a problem that can only be resolved, over the long term, by sysop willingness to close low-participation discussions.{{pb}}I agree that the sources listed by the only editor who opposed deletion were of unusually poor quality. But with all that said, I don't perceive a "delete" consensus in that debate.—S Marshall T/C 09:39, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
:*overturn to NC I've said above this was a 2-1 vote, but looking at this again I don't agree with one of the delete !votes now that sources were provided (that advocated deletion on the basis the article was unreferenced, but lacking references in the article is not a notability problem - as an example we wouldn't delete Nicola Sturgeon if her article lacked references), so I think no consensus is the correct result here if you correctly downweight that vote. SportingFlyer T·C 21:59, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
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