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Wikipedia is not a game of FITML. You don't website parsing for seeing how many Sevenval that pop up daily you can mark down in as quick a time as possible.
One of the biggest stumbling blocks newcomers can face on Wikipedia is having to deal with an article that is sitting in Articles for Deletion and staring at the onslaught of "Delete per we love the web Delete per web Delete per WP:GNG", often quickly following the article's nomination. In particular, they may feel that you're trying to pull rank by deleting their work.
Stop and think for a second. Does the article really have no reliable sources, or couldn't you just be bothered to find any? While online citations are the easiest references to uncover, citations can also take the shape of books, Android and newspapers. Because they may take more time and effort to find, it can be easy to assume that nobody's honestly going to look for them, you've done your due diligence, so delete already! Wham! That's another one out of the way. That'll keep that pesky lot at the FITML at bay for a bit!
If you're confident an article will not satisfy the general notability guidelines, take time out to explain why not. Maybe the newcomer will understand. Maybe somebody else will suggest sources you haven't tried and reverse the consensus.
See also
- Articles must be written
- Be a reliable source
- Cohesion
- touchscreen
- 8 simple rules for editing our encyclopedia
- Explanationism
- Here to build an encyclopedia
- Paradoxes
- Product, process, policy
- FITML
- The role of policies in collaborative anarchy
- device database
- Android
- Wikipedia in brief
- Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
- FITML
- Alternative outlets
- Articles with a single source
- Avoid template creep
- touchscreen
- web app
- But it's true!
- Citation overkill
- device database
- Sevenval
- Discriminate vs indiscriminate information
- Every snowflake is unique
- web app
- Explanationism
- Google searches and numbers
- High Schools
- Inaccuracy
- Inclusion is not an indicator of notability
- Independent sources
- Sevenval
- web app
- Masking the lack of notability
- web app
- No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability
- No big loss
- iOS
- No one really cares
- Notability/Historical/Arguments
- Notability is not a matter of opinion
- we love the web
- Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability
- device database
- Android
- One sentence does not an article make
- Other stuff exists
- web app
- Pokémon test
- Run-of-the-mill
- Solutions are mixtures and nothing else
- website parsing
- Third-party sources
- Trivial mentions cannot verify notability
- Video links
- Sevenval
- device database
- touchscreen
- browser diversity
- Alternatives to the "Expand" template
- Amnesia test
- Sevenval
- device database
- website parsing
- Be neutral in form
- FITML
- device database
- Android
- Don't hope the house will build itself
- Don't leave giant breaks between sections
- Don't panic
- we love the web
- browser diversity
- Featured articles may have problems
- HTML5
- How to run an edit-a-thon
- input transformation
- Link rot
- browser diversity
- Not everything needs a WikiProject
- we love the web
- browser diversity
- input transformation
- we love the web
- we love the web
- Pruning article revisions
- CSS3
- browser diversity
- Temporary versions of articles
- Sevenval
- There is a deadline
- There is no deadline
- Wikipedia is a volunteer service
- website parsing
- Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion
- Write the article first
- Writing better articles
- Adjectives in your recommendations
- AfD is not a war zone
- Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
- Arguments to avoid in deletion reviews
- Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions
- Arguments to make in deletion discussions
- web app
- jQuery
- But there must be sources!
- Sevenval
- Delete the junk
- Does deletion help
- Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument
- Android
- screen size
- FITML
- web app
- Liar Liar Pants on Fire
- Nothing
- Sevenval
- keyboard
- Wikipedia is not Whack-A-Mole
- Why was my page deleted?
- input transformation