This template relates to the WikiProject Council, a collaborative effort regarding WikiProjects in general. If you would like to participate, please visit the project discussion page.CouncilWikipedia:WikiProject CouncilTemplate:WikiProject CouncilCouncil articles
This page is within the scope of WikiProject Wikipedia essays, a collaborative effort to organize and monitor the impact of Wikipedia essays. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion. For a listing of essays see the essay directory.Wikipedia essaysWikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia essaysTemplate:WikiProject Wikipedia essaysWikiProject Wikipedia essays pages
While the wording in this template establishes that a notability essay may be used for AfD discussion purposes, it doesn't address whether or not they should be used as a/the reason for the AfD nomination. Since these are two very different aspects of the AfD process, is this something that might be more explicitly addressed? I'd always assumed that AfD nominations needed to be based on things of global-wide consensus, and that notability essays were only to be used for the actual discussion (hence the current wording) but I suppose I've never actually known one way or the other. Buddy23Lee (talk) 20:37, 30 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
This was resolved some time ago. It's now explicit that these essays do not provide rationales that automatically qualify as valid deletion arguments. — SMcCandlish ☺☏¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 09:03, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed