Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Gina Austin
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I am responsible for entered this article and was my intent to add to it periodically, but if it is policy and or is upsetting some people and needs deletion then so be it. I will collate info and replace it at a later date.
My 2 cents worth ;
As for the language breakdown of "POM" (Which in this instance means Penthouse Pet of the Month) or depending on whether you use Capitals or lower case combined it could just also mean Port of Melbourne or Possum on Moonshine, this is used quite regularly and not only to fans. As for POM might meaning Pommie (Limey, Pom, and Pommy), well if this model was a Pommie (Englishman) then it would have stated that. This is also shown explained on this site and is part of the Australian/New Zealand language. If the acronym offends or confuses anyone then state it as part of your guidelines not to use acronyms on the site. Geogre, as for the meaning of "Cruft", well so can any other word mean the same thing if you invent it, i.e. "Red dawn" or "Spawn" hey it is now the replacement of Cruft. After being in the real IT Administration game (not some webpage admin) for the past 20yrs throughout the world I have never heard of this jargon word before used and really, if I wanted to put code on this sight, I could and no one would know it was there. Maybe we should just stick to Harry Potter Novels hey.
Cheers (which means "have a nice day" not the movie) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Deepvision (talk • contribs) 03:43, 9 December 2005 (UTC).
As the person who nominated this for deletion, I feel I must respond.
Under the policy of WP:BIO, subsection People still alive, I personally believe that miss Austin does not meet any of the points given. That is my reason for nominating this and several related articles for deletion.
There is (as far as I know), some level of belief that the creator and contributors to an article should demonstrate in the text of the article that the subject is appropriate or 'worthy' for an encyclopedia article. (See Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines, Key Policies, point 1.). My personal opinion is that when the only information that can be provided on a person is their name', a set of basic physical statistics, a weblink, a date, and three letters falls under the non-encyclopedic arc of knowledge.
The only reason I know POM stands for 'Pet of the Month' is that I found this article via the List of Penthouse Pets list. Someone coming in from another 'angle' would be left confused and unknowledgeable, and could easily make the assumtion that it stands for pommie. In which case, the article would make even less sense than it does now. Again, as far as I know, there is some level of belief that an encyclopedia article should be comprehensible to somebody with either close to or no prior knowledge of the subject.
And finally, the term cruft, is 'Articles for Deletion' shorthand for "This article is trivia of interest only to hardcore fans of a specific film, television series, book, game, pop singer, web forum, etc.". This is detailed in a list of shorthand terms at Wikipedia:Guide to deletion.
I do not wish to be mean or offenside, and if I come across as this, I apologise. You have raised some points, and I have tried to answer them. Saberwyn -10:52, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
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Saberwyn, thankyou for the reply and understand the reasoning and will take your advice on board for future entries. Once again thanks
Cheers —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Deepvision (talk • contribs) 16:49, 9 December 2005 (UTC).
