Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Monterosa Ski

Dear User:Itsalleasy

I really do not see why when I create an article it almost immediately gets flagged for deletion. This article is based on one on wikipedia:it, which obviously runs completely different guidelines regarding notability. I must say that I am seriously considering whether I bother to contribute to Wikipedia at the current rate.

Why not try a different approach, for instance saying why you think it might not be notable. Or even doing a bit of your own research to make the article better: just running around tagging articles as not notable is totally counter-productive. I am open to help in improving my contributions, but find straight negative impersonal feedback is non-collaborative. In most cases the improvements required are often merely those required to make the article more consistent with others, and such improvements are much easier for the most experienced members of the community.

A simple inspection of the category to which this article has been added would show that this ski area is comparable with many others in Italy. I hope that you have chosen also to add the not notable tag to all of these as at least that would show consistency in logic instead of blindly following some internal and not very accessible policy.

As an example the following similar size ski regions have articles:


 * 3 Vallees France Les_Trois_Vall%C3%A9es
 * 10s of other resorts in France, many smaller than the Monterosa area Category:Ski_areas_and_resorts_in_France


 * 3 much smaller & significantly less notable resorts in Hungary Category:Ski_areas_and_resorts_in_Hungary

I suggest you browse through all articles in this category & sub-category and establish sensible criteria for notability of ski resorts: Category:Ski_areas_and_resorts_by_country.

Lastly the Monterosa area is highly notable as a heliski and freeride location in Europe. Only La Grave and Chamonix have similar reputations. However I have not added this to the article as without citations it would just appear to be a subjective evaluation.

Yours, Semudobia Semudobia (talk) 17:54, 3 January 2014 (UTC)