Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James D. Nicoll (2nd nomination)
WP:BLP,  and associated policies are important, and that is ''precisely'' why we should not bring them into disrepute by using them to nickel-and-dime uncontroversial material out of an article before deleting it for lack of content. When somebody who is best-known from Usenet posts on Usenet indicating ''his own birthday'', and has no obvious reason to lie about it, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_D._Nicoll&diff=131124453&oldid=131123908 rejecting that as a citation and tagging it with factneeded is excessive zeal. Compare to Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Albert Einstein, and many other articles - each of which get more scrutiny in a day than Nicoll's has in its entire existence - and yet begin with uncited birthdates. The reason those birthdates have stood without being challenged is not that their editors are sloppy, it's that they understand that enough bludgeoning with the policy stick can kill ''any'' article
— User:Calair, 02:56, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:V (Wikipedia:Verifiability)