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14 April 2009

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Greece–Jamaica relations (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore)

No consensus for deletion, article was notable and verifiable. Admin said it wasn't closed on the merits of the article but because "recently, several x-y country relations articles have been deleted." Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 22:02, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That seems a misleading quote of the admins actual statement - "There is not enough content to justify the existence of the article. Recently, several x-y country relations articles have been deleted because the lack of notability and this one is no different." - I've italicised the bit you chose to quote, noting you also included a full-stop which isn't there. --82.7.40.7 (talk) 22:38, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Voila, the link above is blue. We should continue the debate there. --Tone 15:17, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse while it may not have been the strongest consensus, a consensus to delete did exist, and as such this was a proper close. As for the need to establish a notability guideline, I am in full agreement that one is needed. I started a discussion on the AfD tal;k page last night but the above link is probably a better place to have one. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:27, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and relist - We should give a few more days for the "deleters" to address the issues raised by the "keepers" and vice versa. Otherwise, there would not be a clear enough consensus. -- King of ♠ 17:07, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Relist I don't see any clear consensus in the XfD at all. Solid points on both sides. Closing statement sounds like a
     ?  17:51, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply
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  • Endorse as a reasonable reading of the XfD debate. Eusebeus (talk) 17:00, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse - broad consensus for deletion; no procedural errors in close identified, as the DRV rules require. Sources purportedly establishing notability were shown early in the debate, but did not sway participants overall. - Biruitorul Talk 20:32, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn & Re list - now come on, there was no consensus established on this it is only fair to relist and allow a few more opinions to be heard. -Marcusmax(speak) 00:26, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse This was a fair reading of the discussion and many of the keep votes were by ILIKEIT or NOTABILITYBYASSERTION or even worse, NOTABILITYISNTIMPORTANT. The delete side generally cited policy based reasons. Also can the nominator nte that bad faith and deliberately misleading openiong statements are generally going to cost you support at DRV.
    Spartaz Humbug! 06:41, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply
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  • Endorse - correctly closed based on strength of arguments. PhilKnight (talk) 13:31, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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History-only undeletion; talk page, too, please. --William Allen Simpson (talk) 12:09, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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There was clearly no consensus in the discussion, so the result should have been keep. Furthermore, the closing admin (User_talk:MBisanz#Deletion_of_FC_de_Rakt) admitted that he didn't even bother reading the article, and therefore failed to note its numerous sources - Reuters, The Observer, MTDTV, etc. ðarkuncoll 07:57, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • The headcount was actually 6 delete, and 5 keep. Not a consensus. ðarkuncoll 08:26, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't like headcounts. Endorse as a reasonable call by the closing admin. The keep arguements were made mostly on the grounds that this may or may not be the future of womens (and the Scottish Premiership?) football kit and on the coverage of the skirts themselves. The former arguement fails
    WP:CRYSTAL, and the latter would be perfectly sufficiently covered in the kit article (if the article is about the kit the subject should be the kit, not the club). In fact, a Women's football kit article would be better motivated than this. The deletion arguements were made with regard to the clubs notability as a club (which was, after all, what the article was about). This should probably have a section in the Kit (association football) article, which would make it reasonable to redirect the subject of this review to that section. Usrnme h8er (talk · contribs) 08:54, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply
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  • 50% here or 50% there IS a headcount. Wikipedia is not a democracy and in AfD repeating another editors arguement or saying "like he said" adds only very limited further credibility to the other editors claim. Admins have a responsibility to close against headcount (which can be tallied in numbers or percentages, doesn't change what you're doing) if that is the correct close based on strength of argumentation as measured by foundation in policy. You use the term "votes" above, the rest of us stick to "!votes" (to be read "not votes") as that is the context in which they should be taken. Usrnme h8er (talk · contribs) 11:29, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • It was someone else who brought up a headcount here, not me. With regard to the argument, it was those in favour of deleting who were merely repeating what others had said - all the cogent arguments came from the keep side. But the fact remains that there was no consensus reached, whichever way you look at it. So why was it deleted? ðarkuncoll 11:33, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
As the editor who brought the AfD I endorse the deletion. This was an article about a Dutch football club not about a change from shorts to skirts by the female team that are a small part of this club. The news story of the kit change IMO deserves to be mention in the Kit article as stated above. BigDuncTalk 11:41, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
And this is precisely the level of argument repeated over and over again by the deletists. This team are by far the most famous of the club's teams, so to draw a distinction between the club and team is artificial. ðarkuncoll 11:45, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It was repeated because it is policy
Wikipedia is not a news source: it takes more than just a short burst of news reports about a single event or topic to constitute evidence of sufficient notability. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BigDunc (talkcontribs
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Myself, Chris Cunningham, Chandler, EA210269, and Hiding all said keep - that makes 5. It's true that not all of them wrote "keep" in bold at the beginning of their statement, but this isn't necessary. Anyone who had taken the time to actually read it would have seen this. I notice, by the way, that the closing admin has made 43 closures to debates today, as well as literally hundreds of other contributions to Wikipedia - one wonders how he was able to find the time to read it properly. ðarkuncoll 13:49, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • You are right that I overlooked a few opinions, and that consensus was not quite as clear as I thought it was. In addition, with DGG below voting to overturn, I am rather uncertain whether there was a true consensus. I am still leaning towards the side that the team is not notable, and that the article runs afoul of NOT#NEWS. I am going neutral on this one now. Sjakkalle (Check!) 05:45, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn Just adding my vote here, in case anyone misses it. There was no consensus in the AfD, so the result should have been keep. ðarkuncoll 23:48, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn to no consensus Clearly meets WP:N (and no one argued otherwise) and there was no consensus to delete. Further, the argument that a football team can only be notable for football skill isn't an argument that should be seriously entertained and should have been greatly discounted in the close. Hobit (talk) 03:56, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Clearly meets WP:N? How? Not one source covers the club in enough detail to pass as a worthwhile source - they all solely cover the gimmick of wearing skirts. I can't see how this even got close to being a keep. Strong Endorse Deletion. - fchd (talk) 19:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • Please remember that we're not here to reiterate the arguments in the AfD, but rather to argue whether the AfD was closed incorrectly. ðarkuncoll 23:18, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • Certainly. The AfD was managed perfectly propertly, arguments based on policy were given more weight than those based on short-term newsworthy status of a gimmick, so the delete decision was correct. - fchd (talk) 07:23, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
          • Both sides were arguing from what they believed to be policy. Those who argued for deletion failed to make their case, and no consensus was reached. In such circumstances the default - as per policy - is keep. ðarkuncoll 07:59, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • Clearly because the club saw significant coverage in reliable sources. Just because that coverage was significantly on one topic doesn't stop it from counting for WP:N. As far as writing the article, there _is_ enough coverage to write a decent article in RS, and for non-controversial things, primary sources can be used to fill in the rest. Hobit (talk) 20:06, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn and relist There can't possibly have been a consensus because the majority of the votes lacked proper reasoning based in policy or a reasoning at all. Deletion should never be the result of faulty argumentation, otherwise people can offer faulty reasoning on purpose to get something deleted. (MBisanz is right in sense that admins should determine consensus, but they should also determine if no significant changes occurred in the article since the decision was made and if comments actually applied.) If someone claims it should be deleted because it's unverifiable and looking at the article shows (for example) articles on the subject in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and The Observer than that is a comment that should clearly be ignored. Don't be a robot. - Mgm|(talk) 08:15, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment How can you say the deletion lacked reasoning based in policy the article was basically about the team wearing skirts this fails
WP:N Significant coverage means that sources address the subject directly in detail the sources don't cover this club in detail the sources are about a single trivial news story. What sourced detail about the club was there. Sources were about the trivial news story. BigDuncTalk 11:31, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply
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I didn't say the deletion wasn't based in policy, I was referring to a large amount of the votes in the AFD discussion. One judgement is not enough to form consensus regardless of how wrong or right the assessment is. - Mgm|(talk) 12:04, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Then what was the faulty argumentation you are refering to? In all honesty I cant see any. The article fails Notability guidelines as I pointed out again above the only sources are for a trivial publicity stunt not one source covers the club in detail. BigDuncTalk 12:47, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Paul Conneally (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (restore)

Is it possible to review the deletion of Paul Conneally? Some reasons below: Hi am working on a piece for a journal on haibun and renga and noticed that the page at wikipedia on Paul Conneally (which was never comprehensive) has been deleted - in these fields (including being one of the widest quoted when it comes to the definition of haibun)Conneally is widely known (also former editor of World Haiku Review and Simply Haiku) - in the world of haikai arts including renga (renku), haiku, haibun and haiga Conneally is very well known and I think meets notabilty criteria - probably also for his wider artistic stuff too - psychogeographic and situationist explorations using haikai and other processes.

There are a number of references to him in other articles in wikipedia that now link to nothing when it comes to Wikipedia - maybe its a lack of knowledge of the area of haiaki arts that's resulted in the deletion?

From the cache of the page it looks as though someone very recently placed some references that were all 'locked' due to being from 'access my library' but there are other references to him around the web and in paper literature.

I believe Conneally was also a member of seminal post-punk uk band Dum Dum Dum (around 1979/80whose work has recently been relreased in the Messthetics series although that wasn't on the original wiki page about him.

Could it be reinstated? With maybe a call to get it updated properly?

<http://www.contemporaryhaibunonline.com/pages_all/haibundefinitions.html>

<http://www.worldhaikureview.org/2-1/masthead.shtml>

http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=4876 (from ORBIS archived at the British Southbank poetry archives)

http://www.slashseconds.org/issues/003/001/articles/conneallypugh/index.php from /seconds academic art journal

<http://www.archive.org/details/circleoffire>

http://home.clara.net/nhi/mg0177.htm (Review of journal of British Haiku Society including work by Conneally)

<http://www.knex3.org/x/extra/ex02.html>

Many more... 86.26.196.80 (talk) 06:52, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Those don't seem to be
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I'd argue that the Journal of the British Haiku Society in a discussion around around a haiku poet is a reliable source and the British Southbank poetry archive is a National Archive funded by the British Government and /seconds is an accademic arts journal funded by Leeds Metropolitan University and supported by an international editorial and advisory board of academics, artists and curators. 86.26.196.80 (talk) 10:38, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Whether one accepts some of these sources as
    talk) 14:15, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply
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comment I've met and liked Conneally but he needs to get a whole book published by a well known press, and/or be mentioned several times in national papers for his other activities, rather than local ones, to get a wikipedia article, IMHO. Tell him to go for it:) Sticky Parkin 21:22, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

comment Sticky Parkin, Stifle. I hear what you say, but we like him around here and think he should be on wiki now :) Tuxraider reloaded (talk) 21:35, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

comment Hey - all I know is that it is difficult to have a discussion about haiku and renga practice especially in the uk without someone mentioning him. He must be one of the only western poets to be asked to deliver haiku workshops inside the Japanese Embassy. Also judged Japan Airlines' (JAL) haiku competition in 2008. So the Japanese Emnbassy and Japan Airlines must see him as notable. We even had to devise a piece on our masters course based around one of his haiku intervention pieces. Much of his work is that of 'animateur' rather than the traditional 'on the page' poet though he has books published including 'Parade of Life' published by Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. I bought one at the British Museum last year.

PARADE OF LIFE: POEMS INSPIRED BY JAPANESE PRINTS Selected by Paul Conneally & Alan Summers ISBN: 09539234-2-8

Booklaunches: Bristol, U.K. & Akita, JAPAN

"'Parade of Life' is very impressive." HIROAKI SANO Japanese Embassy

He also guided the creation of the book 100 verses for the three estates. [1], page five. I think they got a government grant to do it. Sticky Parkin 11:35, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here's more on 100 Verses: http://www.jameslangdonwork.net/index.php?/project/100-verses-for-3-estates/ available here : http://www.alecfinlay.com/bookshop_other.html and at amazon and someone let one free.... http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5601255

The Poetry Society has selected some of Conneally’s sites of works as UK Poetry Landmarks including the Memory Tree in Sandhurst Memorial Park: http://more.poetrysociety.org.uk/landmark/display.php?id=1195

and on the music front: Conneally fronted and wrote for UK punk / post-punk band Dum Dum Dum now featured on The Best of Messthetics – got rave reviews in The Guardian, Wire, Uncut etc http://hyped2death.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=31&products_id=90&osCsid=76b9069a8bce68519f28bc326e6a6947

And more recently 2004 the track Rainfall by 7HQ (written by Conneally) was a big House hit and made high positions in the dance and DJ charts – paper archive Music Week (BPI music industry weekly journal) Up Front Club Top 40 July 3rd 2004 and here’s its listing at Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/7HQ-The-Rainfall/release/310966

  • Relist to consider the additional sources.
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  • Assassin's Creed II – Moot point; page unprotected, sources now exist. Original decision endorsed, recreation allowed. – –xeno (talk) 16:02, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Assassin's Creed II (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore)

-- Please unprotect Assassin's Creed II and similar links. It was a 'C' class article with several reliable citations. Also, there has been a consensus and supermajority vote to split it HERE. GroundZ3R0 002 (talk) 04:06, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Would this magazine scans help? The information given fully passes the notability guidelines and plus it has got loads of information.--SkyWalker (talk) 13:44, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I undid my protections on
    T) 15:13, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply
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