Talk:David Smith (journalist)

Reason for keeping the article, per WP:IAR, and perhaps also per WP:CONSENSUS

The main reason for keeping this article is that, as at least currently indicated in our disambiguation article (though that may well change if this article gets deleted), there are two different British quality paper journalists called David Smith. So removing this article risks causing some readers and editors to wrongly assume that cited articles by him are by the other David Smith (and risks sometimes leading to them being wrongly wikilinked to that other David Smith). This article has thus seemingly been usefully improving the encyclopedia for at least 8 years by reducing this unnecessary risk of confusion and misinformation. WP:IAR, the rule that implements the 5th Pillar of Wikipidia ("Wikipedia is not a rule-bound organization"), tells us to ignore any rule that prevents us from improving the Encyclopedia, seemingly implying that we should not deprive the encyclopedia of the afore-mentioned benefit because of some rule about what criteria articles about journalists should usually fulfill. In addition, the fact that it has been there for 8 years may indicate that there has been some kind of consensus to keep it, so WP:CONSENSUS may also be relevant. Therefore I will now remove the deletion proposal as advised by WP:PROD (and its subsection WP:DEPROD). However, though perhaps a bit biased as the creator of the article, I don't really care enough whether it is kept or not to wish to waste any more of my time on the issue (per WP:NOTCOMPULSORY), so if anybody is sufficiently determined to delete it I expect they will probably succeed (unless somebody else is a lot more determined to keep it than I am). Indeed if somebody is determined to delete it, they should please feel free not to notify me of any such moves, as I would probably have preferred if I had not been notified of the current deletion proposal. Tlhslobus (talk) 01:14, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

After further investigation, a possible alternative might be to shift much of the info here to a new paragraph (or subsection?) of Kenneth_and_Mamie_Clark#Family, and then change this article into a Redirect to there. Technically this is quite easy to do, though I suspect it might just open other unforeseen (though perhaps foreseeable) cans of worms (such as somebody claiming it is racist to alegedly "misuse" articles about prominent African Americans to rescue some white alleged "nonentity" from allegedly "deserved oblivion"?), and is thus liable to be more hassle than it's worth, and to do more harm than good (so I won't be trying it). Tlhslobus (talk) 03:09, 26 November 2022 (UTC)