On 5/21/06, SCZenz sczenz@gmail.com wrote:
It is fundamendal to WP:CSD that the reason for deletion be totally uncontroversial, as the process is almost entirely without review.
Not really. For some reason fair use deletion are pretty controversial and I doubt very much whether we'd delete many of them if we relied on straw polls. So we have a speedy for them because, basically, there are a lot of people on Wikipedia who are willing to pack a straw poll but not willing to do the thinking necessary to make a reasonable decision.
I have encountered many speedy-tagged articles that, upon a careful look, were either good articles or worthy of further consideration (e.g. through PROD). It is incumbent on administrators who do speedy deletions to take such careful looks at every article; there are enough of us to take the time to do it right. It would also be helpful if those tagging pages would take some care in what they tag, although I do understand that new pages patrol (for example) is a thankless and rushed job which is very important.
Absolutely. What we *mustn't* do is delete good articles. Crappy articles we can live without and we should be happily deleting them.