User:Joe Beaudoin Jr./Article sit-ins

In the grand tradition of the activist sit-ins of the 60's, I have created this subpage. It is a home for articles that I feel were removed due to the ageless tactics of arm chair quarterbacking; it is not an attempt to disrupt Wikipedia to make a point, although I do not doubt for a moment that someone will probalby nominate this page for deletion.

With each article, I will offer my view on why the article should've been kept, as well as offer constructive criticsms on present policies.

List of models who have appeared in Perfect 10 Magazine
While I am not a fan of lists of articles (the category function is more than sufficient, in my view), I believe the nomination of this list to be in bad faith for two reasons:


 * 1) The motivation for the AfD was due to one (1) alleged anonymous model desiring to be removed from the list. (The logical, worst-case course of action would be, of course, to remove the model from the list.)
 * 2) * It should also be noted that people do not control their own entries on Wikipedia, whether it is in a form of a biographical page, or a list such as the one that was deleted from the article space.
 * 3) A second reason for AfDing the article was because it was "ordered, tellingly, by first names" and listed non-notable people.   (These are merely a style issues, which should have been hammered out on the article's talk page, instead of an AfD.)

Historical evidence: Articles for deletion/List of Perfect 10 models (second nomination).

It should also be noted that the list was nominated previously as well, see: Articles for deletion/List of Perfect 10 models. In both cases, the same nominator was User:Mel Etitis. The first AfD nomination was met with a no-consensus vote due to confusion of what the list covered due to the title of said list. (The list was titled "List of Perfect 10 models", which lead to confusion of what "Perfect 10" was, due to the lack of specificity in said title.)