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This page in a nutshell: This page is an essay about the quote "Do not confuse stub status with non-notability." Sometimes in articles for deletion discussions, editors will argue that an article is small or contains very little content and therefore must not be notable.
Activities and accomplishments are distinguished from each other by boundedness. Activities do not have a terminal point (a point before which the activity has taken place and after which it cannot continue: "John drew a circle"), but accomplishments have one. Of achievements and states, achievements are instantaneous, but states are durative.
Accomplishments Notes Entertainment: Expanded from Start-Class to Good Article. Promoted to GA on 27 February 2013 Writer: Expanded from Stub-Class (c.4K bytes to c.66K bytes). Sea: Expanded from Start-Class to Featured Article Promoted to FA on 5 October 2013 Life sciences: Expanded from Stub-class to C-class (c.3K bytes to c.76K bytes) Solar ...
But don’t confuse that with blind optimism. During Microsoft's earliest days, Gates insisted on always having enough cash in the bank to keep the business alive for 12 months with no revenue ...
Appeal to accomplishment – an assertion is deemed true or false based on the accomplishments of the proposer. This may often also have elements of appeal to emotion see below . Courtier's reply – a criticism is dismissed by claiming that the critic lacks sufficient knowledge, credentials, or training to credibly comment on the subject matter.
Some accomplishment or event, good or bad, may give you notability enough to qualify for a Wikipedia article. Once you have become a celebrity, your personal life may be exposed. No one is perfect, so your faults may get reported, and overreported, and reported enough to end up on Wikipedia.
I just don't like it, its inverse, I just like it, and their variants, are not arguments to use in talk page discussions. In their book, Business Negotiation , Paul Steele and Tom Beasor recommend a tactic in business negotiation, which they characterize as a "trick of the trade", called "emotion trumps logic", thusly:
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