User talk:Kathleen.alder

Ding Day
Your comment “…Shouldn’t Wikipedia reflect the general consensus and be backed up with relevant sources”, hits the nail on the head. First Wikipedia, especially the Article For Deletion is consensus based! In that the closing adminastrator does not look and calculate we had 5 Keep votes and 4 Delete votes, therefore the article is Keep or Delete depending on the vote count. But rather, looks at the arguments and discussions on whether to Keep or Delete and the stronger consensus of those arguments determines the outcome. For you second point; “…backed up with relevant sources”. That’s the crux of the Delete opinions, they including mine, cannot find any 3rd party – creditable – verifiable – independent and reliable sources concerning the piece. References to Blogs – PR releases – Facebook – Myspace and other such sites are not considered 3rd party – creditable – verifiable – independent and reliable sources as there is no variability check with these sites. Hope this helps explain why you piece is getting the reaction it is getting. ShoesssS Talk 16:36, 25 August 2009 (UTC)