>Indeed. This one is plainly saying "I can't work up any interest in doing
>anything for this article >except to zap it. You want to keep it, you do all
>the work."
To be fair:
1) the assumption has always been that the burden of proof of notability is on
the person asserting or defending it. WP:FAILN doesn’t require that an editor
doubting notability look for sources themselves; it just suggests it as one of
several options.
2) The editor in question prodded it rather than nominating for deletion; this
is meant to provide exactly this sort of informal process as a remedy for
perceived deficiencies (I would have preferred he use {{notability}}, the
gentlest and most AGF way of raising these concerns, but even still a prod is
not as in-your-face as an AfD nomination).
3) I admit that on the face of things an article that asserts as its subject’s
chief claim to notability that she was married to someone who became president
of the United States after her death is that I would like to see more first.
Looking over its history, the article dates to 2004, and was expanded shortly
thereafter, back when we didn’t require sources so much and a lot of articles
like this got created. Perhaps improving existing articles about women should
be as much a focus of our editathon events as creating new ones.
>Now I want to know what other women's history articles are on the hit list
>like this, to be able to forestall the deletions within the short window of
>time allotted.
Perhaps you could do the AGF thing and engage the editor on his talk page. His
recent editing history does not suggest to me that he’s engaging in some sort
of systematic prodding of articles like this one, rather that he’s making a lot
of housekeeping edits to American political biographies and perhaps saw the
Nell Arthur article (possibly in the context of looking at other Presidents
whose daughters (or in one case daughter-in-law; see [[Priscilla Cooper
Tyler]]) have stepped into the First Lady role) and wondered why we had it.
Daniel Case
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