Wikipedia talk:Deletion policy/Local politicians

There are enough problems still being discussed here that I think it's premature to consider this discussion as "closed". I recommend retagging the Conclusions as "preliminary" and advertising the question more widely - perhaps at the Village Pump? Rossami (talk) 18:56, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Concur with that. The discussion is marked as open once more. Please advertise this discussion wherever appropriate. Radiant! 09:14, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Now closed again, for lack of recent edits. I believe we can safely conclude that there is no current consensus here. Radiant_* 11:14, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * I would disagree. We had a large sample of articles on local politicians go through VfD and the results were quite clear. Any article larger than a substub on local politicians gets kept. From my perspective the consensus seems to be quite clear and I think it is wrong to worry people that their articles on local politicians might get deleted. - SimonP 14:43, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but statistics do not equal consensus - and the plain fact that we disagree on this issue is also an indication that there isn't currently a consensus. The point of this page is to establish a consensual guideline through discussion, and that has failed. I do not even fully agree with your interpretation of the statistics, and I must point out that drawing conclusions or correlations from a set of sixteen samples is not statistically valid. Radiant_* 18:04, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * If thats your stance (based upon the sample size), when has a consensus discussion ever been valid? --GRider\talk 18:43, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * A large majority to a proposal would be a clear indication of consensus. Statistics on VfD outcomes are not consensus. And even if they were, these aren't particularly valid statistics because of the low amount of samples. Radiant_* 19:25, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)