G'day Steve,
On 5/21/06, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
a) an admin unthinkingly deletes it, "it's tagged; who am I to disagree?". Sometimes I've seen a salvageable article while going through the CSD category and been busy rewriting it when another admin thoughtlessly deletes it; that *really* irritates me.
You know about {{hangon}} ?
Why? Article X is clearly not a speedy delete, and while I'm making it into a good stub (as opposed to a merely decent one) I remove the {{delete}} tag. No admin should be speedying in the meantime, because *the article is not a speedy candidate*.
b) I remove the tag, and cop (at best) a polite query or (at worst)
unfettered abuse as a result. "It's tagged; who are YOU to remove it?" It seems to be a grave insult to the CVUers and their ilk that an admin would dare to disregard their recommendations. I suspect the only way to make them happy would be to either give them delete buttons themselves, or write a bot that automatically deletes any article that finds its way into the CSD category.
AfD it for them? Third opinion and all that...
To Hell with that. I don't AfD articles unless I want them deleted; if they want them on AfD, they can do the leg work themselves.