Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 August 27
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I just realized that you deleted the page "Seth Sieunarine". Though Seth has not done much acting anymore, he did in fact appear on two episodes of "Family Matters" when he was younger, and he continues to advertise for his country of Trinidad and Tobago. I understand that he has not done a whole lot in the acting career but I ask that you please not delete his page from wikipedia as he continues to be a model and icon for his home country of Trinidad and Tobago. Thank you! 65.95.76.52 22:45, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
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This article on a new and increasingly popular keyboard layout, an alternative to QWERTY and Dvorak, was deleted in November 2006 on grounds of non-notability and subsequently salted after being re-created without further discussion. Since then it has recently been added for inclusion in forthcoming versions of X11[1] and Ubuntu[2]. Usage figures are hard to verify but it has an active user forum with just under 200 members[3] which is pretty popular as far as alternative keyboard layouts go. Qwfpg 21:37, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
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The above is an archived debate of the deletion review of the article above. Please do not modify it. |
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The AfD for this article was over a year ago and since that time Tourettes Guy has died in an automobile accident, a petition (which can not be linked here because of spam blocks) with over 11,000 signitures agree that Tourettes Guy is notable to be on Wikipedia. I have been an editor on Wikipedia for over a year now and I would compare TG with other internet personalities such as Numa Numa, Maddox, Ask a Ninja, Leeroy Jenkins. The tourettesguy.com web site consistently gets over 300,000 unique visitors a month and although this is not a significat amount of hits that is not what is being claimed as his notability, his notablity comes from the thousands of viral video downloads on various different websites. If all that isn't TG was quoted on Conan O'Brien, and was featured in a commercial on MTV. Furthermore I would like to add that according to Alexa.com here the tourrets guy's web page is listed in the top 100,000 web pages on the interent. With all things considered there are plenty of references for TG and he is obviously an internet phenomena. Please take the time to review this issue and not take it lightly, a petition with over 11 thousand signitures is more than enough to at the very least unprotect the article for recreation. --Joebengo 18:39, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:44, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
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I believe this image was improperly deleted in contravention of the following primary and emphatic instruction in Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/Instructions for administrators: "Before deleting an image, make sure of the following...No objections to its deletion have been raised, or a consensus to delete has been reached." In fact, two objections to the image's deletion were raised in IfD and there was--I believe it's more than safe to say--no consensus to delete. In addition, it was never claimed--neither at the point of nomination nor deletion--that the image failed the sort of objectively testable requirement that might reasonably trump administrators' instruction.—DCGeist 18:08, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
OverturnI'm really disturbed to see that contributions to debates in the Image Deletion process may not be taken seriusly. I believe the policy is that an image is not to be deleted unless there's no objection to its deletion or unless there's a consensus to delete based on contributors' judgments as expressed in the debate. That policy seems to have been contradicted here. Pretty clear-cut, I think.DocKino 21:28, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
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This is a similar case to that above, but even more significant. I believe this image was improperly deleted in contravention of the following primary and emphatic instruction in Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/Instructions for administrators: "Before deleting an image, make sure of the following...No objections to its deletion have been raised, or a consensus to delete has been reached." In fact, many objections to the image's deletion were raised in IfD and there was clearly no consensus to delete. In addition, deleting admin had participated in the discussion and entered a vote; deletion thus contravened the basic deletion guideline: "As a general rule, don't close discussions or delete pages whose discussions you've participated in. Let someone else do it." In deleting, only a personal opinion about the content of the debate was offered as rationale--"Many people offered spirited defenses of this image, but no one was able to explain what encyclopedic information this image conveys that could not be conveyed by text alone." Deleting on that basis obviously values an administrator's personal opinion about a subjective matter over the clear language of the instruction (and, obviously, over the opinion of most of those involved in the debate). In addition, it was never claimed--neither at the point of nomination nor deletion--that the image failed the sort of objectively testable requirement that might reasonably trump administrators' instruction.—DCGeist 18:05, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
OverturnAgain, how to interpret this policy of image value is open to interpretation. That's why we have a debate on it. And that's why we don't delete unless there's a consensus to delete. if the admin's opinion was all that counted, we wouldn't need a process at all.DocKino 21:30, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
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I'd like to correct it Areesssea 16:58, 27 August 2007 (UTC) Cryptic deleted the article suggesting it was "blatant advertising". This was not my intent. I've not been able to reach Cryptic, and I'd at least like the chance to update the content to steer it away from an "advertising" feel. Thanks, Areesssea 16:58, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
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