Wikipedia talk:Deletion review/Log/2020 October 21

There have been accusations made on this page about me, which I have to respond to.

The main one is that I shouldn't say anything that could possibly be regarded as an accusation of racism. In the last three months the nominator has (on my quick count, so I may be out by one or two) made 19 deletion proposals (via WP:PROD) for articles about high schools and universities, every one of which is in Africa, and created 23 deletion discussions (via WP:AFD) about such institutions, 19 of which are in Africa, 3 in Asia and 1 in Europe. There is a clear imbalance here, especially given the fact that we already have far less coverage of Africa than other continents, and so a case to be answered. I actually believe that User:Adamant1 is not being consciously racist, but just that the objective outcome of this work is to exacerbate institutional racism. I am pretty obviously not the most diplomatic of people, but something should be done to address this, which is bad for the image of Wikipedia as well as for the substance.

As regards the issue at Articles for deletion/Robert A. Olson raised by User:Levivich, my initial stance to anything is always an assumption of good faith, which does not preclude scepticism. When the first source that I look at has been clearly misunderstood I maintain such sceptisism, so the other sources need checking to see if they have been accurately represented. WP:AGF does not mean that I should believe anyone else blindly.

I have posted here because this is way outside what should be discussed at WP:DRV. Phil Bridger (talk) 16:12, 24 October 2020 (UTC)