Talk:John Houdi

Hi. It Appears that my article was deleted by Sophie Wilder. I just wanted to clarify that I don't know John Houdi and I think it's fine if you think that the article is irrelevant. I am new to RationalWiki and don't know whether you focus only on stuff that happens in the USA or if you want this Wiki to expand to include foreign stuff. I also want to clarify that Sweden has a population of 10 million people. Your assumption (or accusation) that I know a specific person just because I am from the same country is rather farfetched and in my opinion ignorant. What did you expect? You think an article written about a Swedish illusionist, podcast host and TV personality wouldn't have a Swedish IP address? Would an Indian or Greece IP address be better? Also, I don't see why you would expect me to write an essay? What is wrong with writing a stub? Please explain.

My intention of creating this article was to see whether people would find it and keep developing it or if it would get deleted because it was being considered irrelevant. I find your reason to delete it however is based on my country of origin rather than Wiki guidelines. Ironically, you are not being very rational.


 * (EC)Thanks for that, and thanks for allaying my suspicions. We do have a kind of lower limit for who deserves an article, and podcasters, youtubers and bloggers don't really make the grade unless they're well-known or have caused a stir, because there are just too many of them. Sophie  Wilder  22:32, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
 * If I restore it will you add some detail explaining why we should care about who he is? DamoHi 22:30, 14 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I just had a look at Wikipedia and saw that there was no English article about him, so perhaps it is a bit too niched for this Wiki also.
 * Whilst we don't have official notability requirements, we do have a casual "who on earth is that guy" test that can be applied. Has he done anything noteworthy that we should know about?  If so, please feel free to create the article, otherwise its a bit thin.  We don't have articles on every skeptic out there.  DamoHi 23:07, 14 April 2013 (UTC)