• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s marked for deletion because this article was created in response to what happened in Canada. He is only notable for one event, which only just happened, and as per Wikipedia’s One Event rule he is not notable enough to warrant an article about him. Or at least, that’s what the process of marking it for deletion is supposed to decide on.

    When an individual is significant for their role in a single event, it may be unclear whether an article should be written about the individual, the event or both. In considering whether to create separate articles, the degree of significance of the event itself and of the individual’s role within it should both be considered. The general rule is to cover the event, not the person.

          • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            I spent a lot of time fighting the BS on Wikipedia. I went from getting I think 6 accounts banned to voting for administrators and editing some of the policy articles.

            What came from it in the end was, yes, there are malicious actors and people with agendas on Wikipedia. But Wikipedia is one of the darkest rabbit holes on the internet, and those policies were crafted over literal decades of people arguing - and there is no better set of policies out there. I’m pretty sure their policies beat literal national policies.

            So while from time to time I fight the BS, at the end of the day their policies are the best they can be to get the most verifiably accurate version out there. Anything else would allow more BS than currently exists.

    • TheLepidopterists [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      So there’s a separate article about the event and he should just be mentioned there? It doesn’t merit two separate articles?

      Cool, where’s the article about the Canadian parliament honoring him?