Afonka Bida

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Speedy deletion of The Political Quarterly

A tag has been placed on The Political Quarterly requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

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FYI

I agree with many of the concerns you expressed in your column on wikipedia speedy deletion.

You have probably noticed that The Political Quarterly was re-instated, about a day after it was deleted. But you are completely correct that it reflects poorly on the wikipedia that quality control volunteers so unfamiliar with basic political science that they didn't recognize Leon Trotsky and Benito Mussolini were passing judgment on whether the article should remain.

I commented on the deleting administrator's lapse in not restoring the comment where you defended the article. I'd like to read your defense.

I also noted a couple of small exaggerations in your column. When you wrote that your defense of the article was "dismissed within two minutes" -- did you mean that User:Tiggerjay dismissed it withing two minutes? As a new contributor you couldn't be expected to know this, but his or her opinion carries no more weight than yours. One of the small, and possibly insignificant exaggerations in your column is that the article wasn't deleted for another four hours. FWIW Tiggerjay hasn't contributed to the wikipedia in over six months.

I am a bit more concerned over a comment the administrator who deleted the article made, when questioned about his or her choice to concur with the nominator. I think we should hold the wikipedia's administrators to a higher standard. It appears from the following comment that the administrator who deleted the article may not have noticed your {{hangon}} -- or chose not to read the defense you offered on the talk page:

I went back and reread the article and I realized I read it wrong, for some reason I thought it was about the man who created it. I went and restored the article as you are correct it doesn't meet A7, so of course feel free to go and improve. Sorry for the mix-up, Im an idiot sometimes :-)

Anyhow, your column raised some excellent points. Thanks for writing it. Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 22:59, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello, Afonka Bida. You have new messages at Cordless Larry's talk page.
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Message to Geo Swan

Geoff - sorry to take so long to respond to your kind message on my Talk page - I don't do Wikipedia edits very often and so rarely see my Talk. To be honest I find the Wiki interface rather baffling compared to email or blogs. Thank you for your kind comments about my PC Pro column, which you correctly surmised was in no way an attack on the Wikipedia ideal, of which I'm a great admirer. I can't find my defence against the Political Quarterly speedy deletion in its history, so it's quite possible that I entered it wrongly or in the wrong place: it was simply an explanation of who Trotsky and Mussolini were, and that they were not my friends!

All the best Dick P

Aha, found it!

This was the defence against quick deletion that I put up:

Talk: The Political Quarterly.

This article is not about "a person or group of people" but about an institution, namely a 75 year old political magazine of considerable influence and significance. It was founded, edited by and contributed to by various influential political figures who have their own Wikipedia entries, including Leonard Woolf, Leon Trotsky and Benito Mussolini.

July 2013

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Rosemary Bailey (March 26)

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Fiddle Faddle 11:08, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Rosemary Bailey (March 27)

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Flat Out let's discuss it 05:50, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Flat Out - thanks for taking the time to review my submission. It would help me make the piece conformable to standards if you could tell me which citations are causing the failure

best regards Afonka Bida (talk) 11:44, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Rosemary Bailey (April 15)

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wia (talk) 13:41, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

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