User:Largoplazo/Templates/Other articles
Hello. If I've left you a link to this article, it's because your article has been deleted or flagged for deletion and you've responded with an objection along the lines of "There are articles of type X on Wikipedia, and my article is of type X, so mine must be acceptable." My generic response is as follows:
- The fact that your article is of type X wasn't the basis for my deletion request.
- I know nothing about those articles, but either they don't suffer from the same issues that I perceived in yours or they do. If they do, then they are just as prone to deletion as yours. But they may not: they may consist of objective, verifiable information referenced from third-party reliable sources about notable topics.
- If the articles you're comparing to yours are worthy of deletion, the argument "you can't delete mine until you delete theirs" is a bit like telling a police officer he can't fine you for speeding until he stops all the other speeders on the road! Wikipedia doesn't have a single gatekeeper making consistent judgments on every single article created on Wikipedia. Decisions to edit, tag for issues, or flag for deletion are made by ordinary users—like you—who check the New Pages queue when they have a mind and the time to, each applying his or her own judgment in accordance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Not every article is seen. Many articles are looked at by several people. Perfect consistency is ideal, but the unattainability of that goal doesn't mean we have to shift to the other extreme and give up on enforcement altogether.