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An exchange worth remembering, from WP:Articles for deletion/Jan Goossenaerts
- All we ask is that you please respect our views on what is notable and that you don't inflict your differences on us, we don't nominate articles you are interested in just because they don't mean anything to us, please return the favor. Longevitydude (talk) 15:31, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- This leaves me virtually speechless. I wish I could quote box it and place it at the top of the AfD because the rationale is so against policy and the basic concept of what an encyclopedia it that it literally takes you breath. We're not here to trade favors in order to retain non-notable trivia. If I created or contributed to such work myself I would expect you to have it deleted. Unbelievable.Griswaldo (talk) 15:52, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- Whats unbelievable is that you don't let people have their own interests, you think that just because your not interested that no one should be allowed to be interested in it, notability is in the eye of the beholder, don't tell the beholder that he can't have his own interests and definition of notability. Longevitydude (talk) 15:55, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- Well, the reason Wikipedia in general does not adopt a "whatever one individual feels is notable is notable" standard is that this is effectively the same as having no standard of notability at all. —chaos5023 (talk) 16:01, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- People should be allowed to be interested in whatever they want, let them decide notability for themselves and let other people have their own interests, wikipedia will have more viewers if their are more articles, deleting them makes wikipedia less famous, people want information and why will they waste their time at a place that doesnt have the information they are searching for. Longevitydude (talk) 16:08, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, this is the radical inclusionist position regarding Wikipedia content. It is not accepted by the community at large, which contrariwise holds that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and I am afraid that you are not going to be able to change this project-wide consensus within this deletion discussion. —chaos5023 (talk) 16:23, 8 November 2010 (UTC)