Forum:CT Archive/Remove "Notability requirements" section from Deletion Policy

As has been pointed out in recent discussions, Deletion policy currently only has two bullet points under the "Notability requirements" header. The first is: This standard was created in the earliest days of the Wook, when there was more information on Star Wars elsewhere on the Internet than on our site. Clearly, those days are long since past, and there are countless articles on Wookieepedia and its mirrors that are the sole sources of information on their topics available on the internet. This is not even counting our many conjecturally-titled articles, which describe unnamed but nonetheless canon topics using, by necessity, titles that are non-canon. The Google Test hasn't been used as a criterion for article deletion for half a decade or more, and it is high time it be removed from our policies, especially since, as shown in the abovelinked discussions, it's being used to hold clearly-canonical material hostage.
 * Notability of an article is determined via the Google test. Articles failing this test (usually fanon) are deleted.

The second header is narrowly focused on fan articles: This bullet point simply restates that fan articles must adhere to other policies already detailed elsewhere on the site. It's redundant, and if the obsolete Google Test bullet point is removed, it would be confusing standing on its own as the sole element discussing notability in our deletion policy.
 * If the article is of a fan site, it must meet the Notability of fan projects requirements, and the article regarding it must be written from a Neutral point of view. Otherwise, the article will undergo the Trash compactor process, and the site gets a link at the List of fan sites page.

I propose removing the entire "Notability requirements" section. If need be, it can be recreated at a future time if other notability criteria are adopted, but for right now, it is performing no useful function, and the only unique part of it is serving as a bad-faith lever in site discussions. That said, for completeness, I am also adding options should users feel one or the other of the above bullet points should be retained. jSarek (talk) 08:21, August 26, 2013 (UTC)

Support removing entire section

 * 1) As nominator. jSarek (talk) 08:21, August 26, 2013 (UTC)