On 5/21/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
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 may be naive, but I think it is going over the top to generalise straw polls as unreasonable just because they come up with different decisions to what you expect.
Absolutely. What we *mustn't* do is delete good articles. Crappy articles we can live without and we should be happily deleting them.
Is that crappy in how they look, or in their encyclopedic value.
Peter