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Which policy do you have a problem with? I've been an active Wikipedia editor in the past and I think the problem has less to do with removing content, but rather maintaining existing content.

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The recent deletion of lutusp / Paul Lutus's article [1] seems to be a reasonable reflection of the problem with Wikipedia, in my opinion.

[1] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lutus

Have you read the discussion thread? [1] He doesn't have enough notability to warrant a dedicated article, and a redirect to the Apple Writer article is sufficient. And Paul himself chimed in asking for the article to be either deleted (which it was), or "frozen against vandalism", which is only applied in extreme cases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

> He doesn't have enough notability to warrant a dedicated article

You say this as if it were just so. I don't happen to agree.

Well, what are some citable sources on Paul Lutus that don't principally pertain to his having authored Apple Writer?

Look at some older versions in the page history (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:EnTerr/Paul_...) before the page got whittled down before some deletion attempt, and you can find quite a few.

You're right. I concede the point. It looks like there's some recency bias in WP's decisionmaking process here.

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