Wikipedia talk:Don't be an ostrich
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introduction
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]AfDs
From the context in which you cited this in a deletion discussion just now, I wonder whether it might be useful to add a suggestion that people revisit AfDs in which they have participated to see whether new evidence has been found that might persuade them to change their vote? Failing to do that (or insisting on sticking by one's original vote even when it becomes untenable) is, after all, the most ostrich-like behaviour. — Haeleth Talk 19:52, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- I think that's a good idea. I keep AfDs I vote in on my watchlist. Any suggestion on how to phrase this for the article? PT (s-s-s-s) 20:56, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Better
This is better than the previous essay. Thanks. Stifle (talk) 09:46, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Mfd notice
This page was nominated for deletion, but the outcome of the discussion was to keep it. (Radiant) 08:20, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Title
This is a decent essay, but should it have this title given that ostriches don't really bury their heads in sand? Alzarian16 (talk) 21:59, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Checks and Balances in the Articles for Deletion Nomination Process
There needs to be better checks and balances in the process of how articles are currently nominated for deletion, to prevent notable topics from being deleted without actual qualification per Wikipedia article deletion guidelines. This is a significant problem, because it is very likely that notable topics are being injustly deleted. It's easy to nominate an article for deletion and then type five or six words and wait to see if an article will be deleted, whereas it takes more time to refute nominations. Perhaps there should be more sophisticated criterion to nominate articles for deletion. As it is now, anyone can nominate any article without providing a just rationale for doing so, and can instead simply base the nomination upon basic, generic and inspecific statements such as "doesn't pass general notability guidelines", while not specifically stating which parts of the guidelines they are supposedly referring to. If nobody comes along to correct an injust or baseless nomination, the article is then deleted based upon unqualified, general statements that don't actually correspond with the required source searching per
Please place responses regarding this matter here on this Don't be an ostrich Discussion page below, rather than on my personal talk page. In this manner, other users can view and respond to responses. Thank you. Northamerica1000 (talk) 08:03, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
- Please refer to: Wikipedia talk: Articles for deletion— Checks and Balances in the Articles for Deletion Nomination Process. Northamerica1000 (talk) 18:07, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Ridiculous ;)
Do you seriously think that a 100 kilogram ostrich nearly 3 meters tall which can run at 70 km/h will hide it's head in the sand in the face of danger, instead of fleeing or charging? Think again. benzband (talk) 10:03, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
This page is horribly prejudiced against ostriches.
Okay, not really.
I Love Ostrich
Does that quote needed for this essay?