User:Cdcon/AfD protocol
New Rules
[edit]Keep everything except the following:
- Obvious nonsense
- "Well then, define obvious!"
- No.
- Advertising
- A list of an organization's products or services when no attempt is made to explain their significance.
- Things that should really be somewhere else.
- Subarticles
- Basically, articles lacking in independent content, for example, a not-really-prominent guild in World of Warcraft can't really be mentioned separately from the game, can it?
- Userpages
- That's where personal vanity articles belong.
- Prohibitively large lists
- That's what a category is for.
- Notability-dependent things
- Subject A is notability-dependent on subject B if: B not notable implies A not notable.
- I vote merge in this situation.
- Lists with no objective criteria
- Lists that are too short
- "How short?"
- Whatever I feel it should be at the time.
- Unsourced articles
Old Rules
[edit]My goal as a voter is to develop a set of clear, consistent policies based partly on Wikipedia guidelines and partly on common sense, while being fully compliant with Wikipedia official policy.
I like (tend to vote to keep):
- Articles that, by definition, violate some aspect of WP:NOT, but are making significant forward progress toward nonviolation.
- Locally famous things in real life that, even with little or no global notability, are significantly linked with something notable.
- Potentially useful, concise, in-depth lists that expand on summary lists in other articles.
I dislike (tend to vote to delete):
- Articles about notable corporations that are on the fine line between advertising and information.
- Locally famous things on the internet that have little or no global notability. This is in contrast with the real life version above because the vastness and anonymity of the internet enable spurious connections with notable things.
- Subsections of articles that are expanded into separate articles for no clear reason.