On 5/21/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa(a)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