Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/EasyMandarin
In their comment above, {{u|Curb Safe Charmer}} (the nominator of this AFD) opens with a note about me claiming I am "the article's creator and only contributor". This article had 38 editors contribute to it according to the statistics https://xtools.wmflabs.org/articleinfo/en.wikipedia.org/EasyMandarin. I am not sure why the editor thought this was relevant to note, but yes, I created this article for a college assignment years ago after attending the school's summer program. I am defending this article not only because I created it, but because I believe it is a notable school with proper references and written in a neutral tone according to Wikipedia guidelines. Wikipedia has a history of accepting Private_schools such as the one in this article, and currently continues to do so. There is an argument to be made that both private and public schools are run as businesses, and there are thousands and thousands of school articles included in Wikipedia. The reason that I wrote "I believe this article was probably tagged AfD primarily because the reference links that helped to establish notability were dead links, and understandably caused the editor to see the organization as an unremarkable school." was because the editor that tagged this AFD for discussion went on holiday (accordging to their talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Curb_Safe_Charmer) after tagging AFD, and was not participating in the discussion that the editor created. The article in this AFD was not given an opportunity to fix the dead links and other article issues raised. Rather than being tagged {{tlx|refimprove}} , {{tlx|primary sources}}, or {{tlx|notability}} to fix, it was immediately tagged  which automatically adds a bias and paints a negative picture of the article for editors viewing and evaluating for the first time
— User:Parkertony, 03:40, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:AFD (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion)