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This page was nominated for deletion on 4 October 2011. The result of the discussion was keep. |
Is being linked really a good reason to keep an article? The way the argument is worded now runs afoul of WP:N and WP:V, as it seems to we don't need sources if there are a lot of incoming links, a claim which is contracted by WP:V's requirement that there be sources.
There's also the problem of gaming. A savvy editor can easily generate a bunch of incoming links to an article... and indeed with some of the most problematic articles you find they're linked to in a bunch of legitimate articles that have been modified to exaggerate the importance of the problematic article. Since it's perfectly possible to game links, it's hard to take them seriously as an indicator of notability.
In sum, I really doubt there's consensus that incoming links really are a good argument to make in deletion discussions. People make the argument sometimes... but it's pretty fishy. --Chiliad22 (talk) 23:54, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
these particular arguments to be used in all deletion discussions?
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mottainai is a NOTDIC discussion (the article appears to be a coatrack for an environmentalist campaign hiding behind a dictionary definition/etymology). But someone has shown up and made a HASREFS argument, despite this having nothing to do with the article's problems. I came here, and I noticed that this page appears to imply that HASREFS is an argument that should always be used in deletion discussions -- should we include an intro stating that these arguments are not all good for all deletion discussions?
猿丸太夫 09:47, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
This argument should probably be moved to this page's counterpart, Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions. This argument is a contravention of WP:ARTN, which I'm going to quote; Notability is a property of a subject and not of a Wikipedia article. If the subject has not been covered outside of Wikipedia, no amount of improvements to the Wikipedia content can make the subject notable.
For example, a music band can have around 5 links from its members' articles, and still fail WP:GNG, because no reliable sources have been published for that yet. Any thoughts? --TL22 (talk) 01:56, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
I made a bold edit removing the "Links" section, that was reverted by User:Praxidicae. I removed the links section based on the concerns of other editors on the talk page that the argument was weak and should not be used in deletion discussions, making it not belong on this page. I am now starting discussion to get to the D part of WP:BRD. 2601:647:5800:1A1F:CCBF:2541:EADD:F590 (talk) 19:15, 5 August 2022 (UTC)