Forum:SH Archive/Articles on common English terms

Recently, the article trap was speedily deleted, with the rationale being that "This is an English term, already familiar to anyone who is able to read this wiki." I questioned the decision on the talk page, but Grunny suggested here would be the proper venue. So my apologies, and here we go.

Basically, I'm confused as to why trap was not an acceptable article, but any number of other common English terms are. Trap is "an English term, already familiar to anyone who is able to read this wiki," but so, it seems, are terms like table, chair, city, net, knife, eyepatch, shirt, and any number of other things. What distinguishes the article that gets to stay, and what distinguishes the article that needs to go?

The trap article, if I remember correctly, was sourced, illustrated, and decently written. I hope my contributions show that I don't spam the wiki with unnecessary articles. But who knows, maybe I do. Until I understand what distinguished the trap article from, say, the table article, there's a risk I'm going to create more candidates for speedy deletion.

On another note, I must say that it was annoying to not have been warned that an article I created was going to be axed. A note on my talk page letting me know would have been a nice courtesy. Both the article and its talk page were deleted without me having a chance to save the information that they contained, a problem when I needed to formulate my arguments for this page.

Thanks for reading. ~ SavageBob 14:22, October 15, 2009 (UTC)