Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tim Pitman
I can fully sympathise with Timpitman, and I do understand his point of view. However, as is unfortunately very common among people new to editing Wikipedia, his conception of Wikipedia's purpose is mistaken. Wikipedia does not seek to maintain "a database of football clubs and football players" which should be "as comprehensive as possible", but rather to make readily available information on subjects which have a significant degree of |notability as demonstrated by coverage in |reliable sources. Timpitman, you are welcome to suggest changes in Wikipedia's guidelines and policies if you want to, but this deletion nomination will be decided on the basis of the guidelines and policies which exist at present, and unfortunately your reasons do not address those. (This is not the place for a detailed discussion of whether the notability guidelines should be changed, but it is worth mentioning that we have to draw the line somewhere, or we would have articles about my left sock. Wherever we draw the line someone will object, with cries of "discrimination" and the like. It is reasonable to debate where the line should be drawn, but not to suggest there should be no line
— User:JamesBWatson, 10:27, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOTE||WP:RS (Wikipedia:Notability)