[WikiEN-l] Dealing with overenthusiastic speedy nominators (was There are no pictures in Wikipedia any more)

[Matthew Brown]

On 9/29/07, John Lee <johnleemk at gmail.com> wrote:
> I dunno, from my experience, the most abused tag was the one for no context
> - it seemed to be used as an IDONTLIKEIT or IDONTUNDERSTANDIT or a "too
> short" tag, regardless of whether the article gave sufficient context. As
> just one example, I once saw a two-sentence stub on a mayor of New York City
> being tagged for speedy deletion on the grounds that it gave insufficient
> context, even though it was pretty damn clear what the article was about.
> From my experience, idiots abusing this tag would probably be an equal, if
> not greater, problem.

Part of the problem is the template name: db-empty.  I think this
makes people think of 'too short'.  The criterion also only applies to
articles, not categories, templates, etc etc.

-Matt