User:Siroxo/AFD Philosophy

AfD Philosophy
My core principle is to uphold the five pillars. In my opinion, all the policies, guidelines, essays and such go towards that.
 * I generally only !vote delete if I've done a reasonable WP:BEFORE myself.
 * For egregious violations of WP:NOTPROMO, WP:NOTADVERT, WP:NOTLINKEDIN, I will !vote delete based on WP:DEL-REASON, See also: WP:PROPRO
 * I only !vote keep if I'm satisfied with another users' WP:BEFORE or I've done enough of one to satisfy my core principle. I will sometimes vote keep based on WP:HEY, which generally implies the BEFORE.
 * If I haven't done a reasonable enough WP:BEFORE but have something to add, I'll put it in a comment.
 * I'll put an extra strong in front of keep or delete if I am confident in the underlying !vote and feel that there is further risk to the 5 pillars, eg:
 * Systemic exclusion of topics with primarily
 * non-english sourcing
 * non-web sourcing
 * or non-corporate-media sourcing
 * Severe NPOV violations
 * Occasionally, if the polices and guidelines accidentally go against the first couple pillars and I suggest WP:IAR.
 * I'll put a weak if I'm only "mostly" convinced that N is satisfied or not satisfied, but not able to put further effort into a WP:BEFORE
 * I very occasionally use merge as an alternative to keep, when both articles might improve due to a merge.
 * I do consider alternatives to deletion.

In terms of topics, I pay more attention to articles that pose higher risk to the 5 pillars. For example: Conversely,
 * It's important to prevent corporations and foundations from using Wikipedia for advertising for NPOV reasons.
 * It's important to prevent Wikipedia from being a dumping ground for CVs for NPOV reasons.
 * It's important to not delete articles about notable academics, authors, and artists who's work was done in non-english-speaking countries to avoid systemic bias (both for NPOV and to preserve it's validity as an encyclopedia)
 * It's important to not delete articles about notable academics, authors, and artists who's work was done during the analog era.
 * It's important to not delete other Wikipedians' hard work just because a few people don't like it. (WP:5P4+WP:5P3). In particular this applies to lists, but occasionally to minor celebrities or topics that have attracted a bit of an "anti-fandom".
 * It's not important to delete or keep stubs about athletes who have participated in a few international or professional matches. I rarely weigh in on these, occasionally dipping in to see what the shape of information looks like. Generally there are no major NPOV issues here whether or not we include, and the information is generally verifiable, but it's also not a big loss if it gets deleted.
 * An exception is Olympians of non-English-speaking or smaller counties. The Olympics serves a vital diplomatic purpose in our world and are not just a contest of athletics, a systemic bias in this arena would be a really bad thing for most of the 5 pillars.
 * It's not important to delete or keep stubs about musicians or bands who have release a few records. I occasionally weigh in on these because it's often easy to WP:BEFORE up a few sources.