Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bright Leaves
Some wikipedia history for our nominator.  AFD is not intended for copy editing and article improvement.  Even stubs, like this one, represent an considerable amount of work.  Articles on notable topics should never be deleted just because, as the excellent essay rguments to Avoid says .  The wikipedia is well over a decade old, and the criteria for inclusion are stricter now.  When this article was started '''''ten years ago''''' we didn't even have the '''{{tl|cite}}''' templates and the '''''' html tag available for our references.  Of the 400,000 articles that existed in 2005, when this article was written, there are lots of articles that have been kept up to date.  And there are some, that, when given only a cursory glance, might look to someone impatient, like they could never measure up.  But our deletion policy still says that deletion should be based on the ''notability of the topic'', not on some contributor's opinion of the current state of the article.  The wikipedia is not well served by deleting adequate articles on unquestionably notable topics, when they met the inclusion criteria current, when they were written, and merely need an update.  Our nominator wrote: ''"The only other reliable source I can find is http://www.documentary.org/feature/tobacco-road-ross-mcelwees-bright-leaves-gives-viewers-something-chew this"'' -- and then offers a fine reference they found themselves.  Our nominator's time would have been far better spent incorporating that reference into this article
— User:Geo, 12:37, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:A||WP:IDONTLIKEIT (Wikipedia:Attribution)