On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, geni wrote:
Straub
identified more than a weakness - he
identified a complete failure of policy to meaningfully prevent
spurious deletions. Which has been clear to anyone who follows DRV
for a while.
Policy assumes people play fair.
Then policy is broken. Straub may be the only person who proposed spurious
deletions as an experiment, but there are plenty of people who propose
spurious deletions just because they like to propose spurious deletions.
These people don't play fair any more than Straub did, and the lesson that
Straub taught us applies to them too.
Just now, we've had
[[Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/El_Goonish_Shive]]
where I caught the same person trying to delete two webcomics articles using
the same boilerplate paragraph while obviously not having checked to see if
the claims made in the paragraph are valid for each specific article. Please
don't tell me this person is playing fair.