David Gerard wrote: > 2009/4/27 <wjhon...@aol.com>: > > >> I'm not saying that people should delete based on Google results in the >> first place. In fact I am the one who put that note on historical subjects >> into the policy in the first place a few years back. Subjects who are not >> necessarily currently talked-up might have been quite the popular rage back >> in >> 1920 or 1920 or 1420, and should not be deleted based on current Google >> searches. >> > > > I must say, the blindness of some AFD participants to anything that > happened before 1995 can be more than a little annoying ... > I haven't found this to be a big problem in practice, but maybe I've been lucky? A handful of my edge-case biographies of 19th-century individuals have been nominated for AfD, but all survived. One was a translation from a famous 19th-century German encyclopedia (ADB), and nobody could find a single post-1900 source on the man, but it was kept nonetheless, with the justification that having once been included in ADB is sufficient to automatically establish notability. A pleasantly surprising result.
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