Hi, I saw that you have been spending quite a bit of your time (so far, at least) on Wikipedia's Votes for Deletion (VFD). I wanted to give you a little bit of background in regards to the controversy behind some of the VFDs around here. Generally, Wikipedians line up in one of two camps concerning whether certain classes of articles should be deleted or not - deletionists or inclusionists. For example, most deletionists would agree that an article about a high school, regardless of its content but especially if its consists of only "X high school is in Y in the state of Z" or the like, should be deleted because high schools are not inherently notable. Inclusionists, on the other hand, might argue that all high school articles are welcome on Wikipedia (so long as the information is independently verifiable) because schools are inherently notable and Wikipedia does not have the size limits a normal encyclopedia does (often expressed as " Wikipedia is not paper"). Of course, both camps would agree that an article about a high school that says merely "X high school is the best school ever!" should be deleted as vanity. This controversy extends to other classes of articles beyond high schools, of course, like some churches, neighborhoods, and the like. I'm not trying to sway your opinion one way or the other (though I do have a strong opinion on the matter), but I thought you might enjoy knowing a bit more about what is going on around here since you are a new user. Welcome to Wikipedia and happy editing :). - Jersyko 14:35, May 21, 2005 (UTC)
Hi there! You nominated a school for VfD... however, these tend to generate lengthy and unproductive debates. Please see Wikipedia:Schools for argumentation. If in the future you decide a school article is inappropriate, please consider merging it rather than nominating it for deletion. Yours, R adiant _* 10:07, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
Hiya,
you put Matthew 2:16 up for deletion
however, that VfD concerned only a few verses from Matthew 1, wheras a proposal by User:Uncle G covers a much larger group of verses.
would you be prepared to make a similar vote at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Individual Bible verses, which covers the full list of verses in Uncle G's suggestion?
~~~~ 9 July 2005 15:44 (UTC)
Template:Article_subject_to_vandalism has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Article_subject_to_vandalism. Thank you. - Splash talk 21:46, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Articles are generally (or should be) deleted because the topic is not encyclopedic. There was an article on this topic that was deleted for precisely this reason, by a very strong consensus. Article content isn't particularly relevant, because if the problem is just that the content is poorly written, then it should be re-written, not deleted. Jayjg (talk) 22:53, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, one or both of the following situations applies to you, and you may therefore be interested in related discussions.
You may also be interested in a discussion of whether or not the entire text of a whole bible chapter should be contained in the 6 articles concerning those specific chapters, and whether or not they should only use the translations favoured by fundamentalists. This is being discussed at Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Whole bible chapter text.
-- Victim of signature fascism | Don't forget to vote in the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee elections 17:57, 15 January 2006 (UTC)