On 5/30/05, Daniel P. B. Smith dpbsmith@verizon.net wrote:
The benefit of running the Jessamyn Wests through VfD outweighs the very small costs of requiring a few people to cast pro-forma "Delete, vanity" votes on the John C. Shaws.
Eh, I dunno about that. If the initial article is short enough that it doesn't establish sufficient notoriety to someone who thinks wikipedia should be very inclusive, then we don't really lose anything if it gets deleted before someone has had a chance to point out the notability.
You might not consider it costly to vote on a bunch of silly vanities, but it does take a fair bit of work to close the VFDs, and it's work thats done by too few people.