User blog comment:Rpakr/Reforms 2/@comment-5150073-20190909115744/@comment-27516045-20190915130455

Are you seriously trying to say that only things that actually are offensive should be deleted?

That's not at all what I believe on. If this were, say, the DIscord, I might agree. But this is a wiki, and wikis need to have notability standards.

Let's say I decided that, for some reason, I wanted to write an article about ExE on Wikipedia. It would (rightfully) get deleted rather quickly, because (among other things) any sources about ExE probably wouldn't be considered reliable on Wikipedia (among other things).

Are you seriously saying that shat hypothetical page shouldn't be deleted because "it's not hurting anyone by being there"?

That's absurd.

Or do you just think we need written notability standards before deleting more pages? That's a far more reasonable position to take.

The trouble here is twofold. There are two difficult questions that we should consider, and I don't know the answer to either one.

1. What counts as a "good source"? What would make saibian's Google Site a good source, but a random Google site someone else made just now not? I was thinking that, maybe, some kind of time limit should be a requirement (that is, it must have been around for at least a month, or something similar). This would prevent stuff from immediately being added. However, it's hard to do anything specific.

2. For cases like Saibian's ExE numbers (or a few others, but that's just the most numerous case at the moment), how do we determine which numbers are "notable" to receive an article of their own? This one is even harder, and may be hard to come up with a general rule except on a "case-by-case" basis. I have no clue what such a rule would look like.

By the way, does anyone know if the Japanese wiki is doing anything better on this front? They seem to be organized a bit better, from what little I've heard (and me not being able to speak Japanese). If the Japanese wiki has some kind of notability standards, could that apply over here?