Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Kevin Waters

Dave 17:01, 10 March 2011 (UTC) I am wondering why my articles on several significant Jesuits are continually being nominated for deletion, when much less rigorously documented articles on every soccer player who sat on a bench for half-a-season has a wiki article? I am NOT trying to be flippant or inflammatory here, but it's tiring to have to fight these battles. Father Waters is a composer of considerable note, with many published compositions. Also, it's clearly documented that he's been a Dean at Gonzaga. What I'm after here is some sort of logical explanation of what NOTABILITY or SIGNIFICANCE means, and it seems to me if he meets the guidelines, he meets the guidelines, and that should be the end of the discussion. Now, if there's more documentation needed for parts of this article that was obtained primarily from the subject, then I can take that criticism, but I would point out that there are thousands of articles not nominated for deletion that are much thinner on documentation than this one. It is very difficult to document the early life of someone who was born before the advent of computers. I got a lot of info on Father Waters off of a syllabus bio from having taken a class from him decades ago, printed, not online. It seems to me that there should be facility added to Wiki for someone to scan such material in as a source, since so little is online covering these kinds of things.

Really. Can someone just talk to me and tell me how I can document the contributions of some of these significant people whose contributions pre-date "online" publishing? I want to be a good contributor, but I seem to continually fight this "Catch 22".