David Gerard wrote:
"David Mestel" wrote
I don't think that "implied discretion" is a good idea long-term - it's better to codify it in policy so that everything is consistent and in the open. Apart from anything else, it's kind of inadvertantly biting the newbies when stuff happens for reasons which aren't explained.
You are in fact completely wrong and dangerously wrong.
Careful, David, you don't want to turn into a robot, yourself, in your anti-process crusade!
"Codify it in policy" might be a little strong here, but certainly, if Brad's call to arms on corporate vanity isn't matched by some reasonably explicit corresponding language in our notability and deletion guidelines, it should be. (In particular, someone mentioned CSD A7, or something, and while I'm not one to memorize CSD numbers, that sounds about right.)
Take care not to try to turn Wikipedia into something which, if it was, would never have become interesting enough for you to have heard about it in the first place.
Nice. Where'd that come from? :-)