User talk:SP-KP/Terminally Ill

The article List of people who became famous through being terminally ill has been deleted following this AfD. Whilst I feel a number of valid criticisms of the article were made in the AfD discussion, I feel that this is an incorrect decision, and a different decision may well have been arrived at if the discussion has been allowed to run its course rather than being closed in midstream. This page is an attempt to arrive at a consensus on what should happen to the information contained on the deleted page. It may be that it has no place in Wikipedia at all, and if that is the consensus then fine, but we need to be certain that that is the consensus.

I would make a number of points:

1. Is the material unencyclopaedic? Several editors seem to think so, although they either don't give a reason, or they give as their reason that the list fails the "indisciminate information" section of WP:NOT. As I pointed out in the deletion debate, the editors who are using this as their reason either fail to have read, or have misunderstood WP:NOT. All that that section of policy says is that there are eight categories of article which should be deleted because they are unencyclopaedic; there is nothing which says that other articles qualify as unencyclopaedic. Other categories may well be, of course, but the onus is surely on editors wishing to delete to show that this is the case, and not simply to mis-cite policy.

2. A number of the pro-deletion editors appear to be "voting" rather than contributing to the discussion.

3. A number of points I raised in response to editors comments in the discussion were not answered because the discussion was closed before editors had the opportunity to do so. These need to be followed up.

4. The criticisms of the article do need to be addressed, so let's discuss how we can do that.

SP-KP 18:16, 31 December 2006 (UTC)