The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

Re-keep; non-admin closure per WP:SNOW; three more straight keep votes. Also, the person who pressured User:SeanMD80 to relist it had questionable reasoning. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 03:35, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Montenotte, Ireland[edit]

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Unsourced, no indication of importance/significance, prod reverted. According to Talk:Montenotte, Ireland it's a large neighborhood but that's not sourced, google show hotels, houses for sale, nursing home but no notability, books.google show it listed as an address several times. -- Jeandré, 2008-01-19t05:04z

  • I would like to point out that OUTCOME is an unsourced essay, and thus has no actual say over whether an article is kept or deleted. Please cite actual guidelines and policies (which DO have say) when commenting. TJ Spyke 06:57, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • And I would like to point out that WP:OUTCOMES is as valid as any other argument. AFD is about WP:CONSENSUS. If it were just about rules we wouldn't need a discussion. --Dhartung | Talk 07:10, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
OUTCOMES is still just an opinion piece. That means actual guidelines and policies always over ride OUTCOMES (this mainly applies to school related AFDs, where some people think they should be kept even if they fail WP:V and WP:N). TJ Spyke 00:38, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Places have time and time again been shown to be notable after consensus. I'm not sure tagging the outcomes essay with an unreferenced tag was appropriate either, being that it's not an encyclopedic article and therefore doesn't really require citations. matt91486 (talk) 07:21, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. SeanMD80talk | contribs 13:33, 22 January 2008 (UTC) [reply]
I must remind you as the one who closed this AfD early (?) that if AfDs were just substitutes for applying "policy" then we would have no reason for them. AfDs are about determining which action the community feels is right and appropriate. If the consensus is to ignore "policy," then it can do that. Policies on Wikipedia are not laws, but reflections of the community's previous general consensus. Policies change when consensus changes. Wikipedia is governed by the people that participate in it, not by the people that read it, and has no formal responsibility to those people as such. SeanMD80talk | contribs 01:06, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.