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291: 99: 158: 130: 485:. It which surprised me to find that they both failed and I cannot find a discussion after, since definitely the argument is used often (and often successfully) in AfDs for at least the past decade or so. My sense is that consensus has changed on this since 2007 and that borderline-notable people who request deletion often get their wishes respected -- in fact such an outcome is discussed in 489:: "If a dispute centers around a page's inclusion (e.g., because of questionable notability or where the subject has requested deletion), this is addressed via deletion discussions rather than by summary deletion" but even there it's just a wave at a guideline rather than a given rule. All in all, it doesn't seem to be fixed enough nor have enough consensus to go (either way) on this page. 222: 144: 258: 449:
valid reason for deletion? This feels different from "I don't like it" or "They don't like it", but I can't point to a place where this sentiment is addressed. I've seen deletion discussions where the subject didn't want the article to exist but the article was kept anyway (because notable). I know
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Similarly, parent notability should be established independently; notability is not inherited "up", from notable subordinate to parent, either: not every manufacturer of a notable product is itself notable; not every organization to which a notable person belongs (or which a notable person leads) is
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Even if a subject is notable enough to have its own article, it can still be better to discuss it as one part of an article covering a broader scope. Readers often benefit when related information is organized into a single, more comprehensive resource instead of being split between several smaller
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As far as groups go: I think that the BLP article stating that it's a "case-by-case basis" whether BLP can apply to a group stands here. If the article were about two sisters (who, say, own a marginally notable store or have a marginally notable band) and they both wrote in asking for the article
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matter. (That the guideline emphasizes that outside coverage is necessary is obvious; but if that were the only point of the guideline, it would be entirely redundant.) To say a subject "does not win" is not an invalid argument in that context.
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feels incomplete to me. It's true that not every manufacturer of a notable product is itself notable, but it's also true that it sometimes makes more sense to have a single article on
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I decided to be bold and changed the example of a good Original Research argument in the "Just pointing at a policy or guideline" (VAGUEWAVE) section. Before it was (emphasis added)
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Has there ever been consideration for inclusion of the argument, "We'd rather not have an article on us" or "I'd rather not have an article on me" as an
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I did not feel that this was a great example of a "more detailed summary" as much as the definition of what "original research" is. Changed to "
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and the request came from its president, that does not sound like anything BLP should get involved with. --
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et al. seem the proximate P&Gs. I think it's very clear we can distil what is said there into
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articles—with each potentially being less effective at providing necessary context in isolation.
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An article about the notable product plus another article about the not-so-notable manufacturer
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which allows some leeway for a person to ask us not to host an article on them (sometimes) but
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An article about the notable person plus another article about the not-so-notable organization
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Hopefully that's a start, and not overly clunky as to have to rewrite it from scratch.
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suggests that this same courtesy does not extend to groups, esp large groups.
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This is not the only statement in this essay that is similarly problematic.
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to be deleted, that sounds to me like BLP would apply. If it's about the
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I was looking for the rules on this and at first all I could find were
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in this essay contradicts the recommended considerations in the
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