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Does not meet
WP:Sigcov required for all articles. No sources exist for this topic beyond the single cited (primary) source containing the initial description of the species.
Esculenta (
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19:02, 25 June 2024 (UTC)reply
That's not a policy or guideline, and "species articles are kept because they're kept at AfD" is a circular deletion rationale not based on any policy.
JoelleJay (
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20:00, 25 June 2024 (UTC)reply
WP:NSPECIES is not a policy, but a sentence describing common outcomes of species' articles at AfD, and is thus a circular argument that shouldn't be used to keep the article ("this article should be kept because species article are usually kept). Now what policy-based arguments are there for keeping this article that does not meet
WP:SIGCOV?
Esculenta (
talk)
20:03, 25 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Procedural close per JoelleJay. (Incidentally – keep, as it summarizes valuable information for the reader. This is Wikipedia's key purpose: to be an encyclopedia. This article is encyclopedic; and it is not excluded by
WP:NOT, therefore it is notable.)
Cremastra (
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20:09, 25 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Can no-one answer this: What policy-based arguments are there for keeping this article that does not meet WP:SIGCOV? Per
WP:Encyclopedic: "Information should not be included solely because it is true or useful."
Esculenta (
talk)
20:15, 25 June 2024 (UTC)reply
What's not what you said? You called the article "encyclopedic". How you and I might define the word "encyclopedic" may be different, so I went to
WP:Encyclopedic, and quoted a sentence from that page to counter your argument of it being "encyclopedic". Now back to the important question for this AfD: What policy-based arguments are there for keeping this article that does not meet WP:SIGCOV?
Esculenta (
talk)
20:37, 25 June 2024 (UTC)reply
In this case, a single article in a reliable academic publication constitutes significant coverage. Applying standards meant for athletes and movie actors to taxa would damage the encyclopedia, not help it. Eastmain (
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contribs)21:02, 25 June 2024 (UTC)reply
WP:NSPECIES appears to be bad, as it doesn't address cases like these, which lack enough sigcov to warrant inclusion in this encyclopedia. Still not seeing any policy-based rationale to keep this article.
Esculenta (
talk)
21:50, 25 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep / procedural close. (i) All species are encyclopedic and deserve articles in this encyclopedia, (ii) a potential lack of SIGCOV is not and should not be the end of the world, and (iii) this nomination is purely done to prove a point.
BeanieFan11 (
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01:38, 26 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete. From
WP:TOOSOON: "Generally speaking, the various notability criteria that guide editors in creating articles require that the topic being considered be itself verifiable in independent secondary reliable sources." This article simply does not meet that criteria, and, according to existing policies, should not yet exist on Wikipedia.
Esculenta (
talk)
02:14, 26 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Procedural close Disingenuous and POINTy; you don't attempt to alter established handling of tens of thousands of articles by trying hammer a wedge into one random example. Stick to the high-level discussions for that. --Elmidae (
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contribs)
05:07, 26 June 2024 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
Does not meet
WP:Sigcov required for all articles. No sources exist for this topic beyond the single cited (primary) source containing the initial description of the species.
Esculenta (
talk)
19:02, 25 June 2024 (UTC)reply
That's not a policy or guideline, and "species articles are kept because they're kept at AfD" is a circular deletion rationale not based on any policy.
JoelleJay (
talk)
20:00, 25 June 2024 (UTC)reply
WP:NSPECIES is not a policy, but a sentence describing common outcomes of species' articles at AfD, and is thus a circular argument that shouldn't be used to keep the article ("this article should be kept because species article are usually kept). Now what policy-based arguments are there for keeping this article that does not meet
WP:SIGCOV?
Esculenta (
talk)
20:03, 25 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Procedural close per JoelleJay. (Incidentally – keep, as it summarizes valuable information for the reader. This is Wikipedia's key purpose: to be an encyclopedia. This article is encyclopedic; and it is not excluded by
WP:NOT, therefore it is notable.)
Cremastra (
talk)
20:09, 25 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Can no-one answer this: What policy-based arguments are there for keeping this article that does not meet WP:SIGCOV? Per
WP:Encyclopedic: "Information should not be included solely because it is true or useful."
Esculenta (
talk)
20:15, 25 June 2024 (UTC)reply
What's not what you said? You called the article "encyclopedic". How you and I might define the word "encyclopedic" may be different, so I went to
WP:Encyclopedic, and quoted a sentence from that page to counter your argument of it being "encyclopedic". Now back to the important question for this AfD: What policy-based arguments are there for keeping this article that does not meet WP:SIGCOV?
Esculenta (
talk)
20:37, 25 June 2024 (UTC)reply
In this case, a single article in a reliable academic publication constitutes significant coverage. Applying standards meant for athletes and movie actors to taxa would damage the encyclopedia, not help it. Eastmain (
talk •
contribs)21:02, 25 June 2024 (UTC)reply
WP:NSPECIES appears to be bad, as it doesn't address cases like these, which lack enough sigcov to warrant inclusion in this encyclopedia. Still not seeing any policy-based rationale to keep this article.
Esculenta (
talk)
21:50, 25 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep / procedural close. (i) All species are encyclopedic and deserve articles in this encyclopedia, (ii) a potential lack of SIGCOV is not and should not be the end of the world, and (iii) this nomination is purely done to prove a point.
BeanieFan11 (
talk)
01:38, 26 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete. From
WP:TOOSOON: "Generally speaking, the various notability criteria that guide editors in creating articles require that the topic being considered be itself verifiable in independent secondary reliable sources." This article simply does not meet that criteria, and, according to existing policies, should not yet exist on Wikipedia.
Esculenta (
talk)
02:14, 26 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Procedural close Disingenuous and POINTy; you don't attempt to alter established handling of tens of thousands of articles by trying hammer a wedge into one random example. Stick to the high-level discussions for that. --Elmidae (
talk ·
contribs)
05:07, 26 June 2024 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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