User:DGG/about deletion

DGG about deletion

WP:AfD advice

As I've learned, AfD is unpredictable. It gets thing right maybe 80% of the time, wrong but arguable or borderline 15%, and downright idiotic, about 5%. Sometimes when I'm certain I have a good argument, for either keep or delete or a compromise, it still doesn't work rationally.. I think everyone who knows it would more or less agree with my estimate, tho the articles they'd pick to illustrate it are different. The only thing I can say for certain is that he better the article, the better the chances. Better - more substantial, with no PR references or blogs for people to attack, and at least two well known reliable national newspapers or magazines in English. Beter , with no claims for anything unusual, but evidence for something important. And "better" in avoiding all of the WP prevalent prejudices. Unfortunately, commercial organizations are one of them, but not to the extent of making things impossible. My recommendation to rescue a weak article with marginally good sourcing that cannot be improved is usually the same: merge. If you merge , do it yourself. A merge done as a result of an AfD close usually merges very little content.