On 29/09/2007, Wily D wilydoppelganger@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure that the problem is admins - I go through the A7 noms and delete maybe 2/3s of them, and a good chunk of those I do delete aren't A7s, but are copyvios, spam, what have you. It would be nice if new article patrollers understood the point, though.
See [[user talk:David Gerard]] - I'm getting responses. Some thoughtful, one seems to be upset at the very notion that I could dare hamper patrollers by asking them to, er, think, and calling this an inclusionist/deletionist war. I responded that I personally zapped over half the tagged articles I saw and that if it's not bright-line, you should in fact be filling out a proper AFD.
I'm sure every admin can hash up examples of such articles - I've rejected three articles on Jamaican Federal Elections, one on a Haitian Presidental Election and one on the Cuisine of San Marino in the last two weeks or so, of the top of my head. Who's going through articles thinking "Haitian Presidential Election? Doesn't sound notable or encyclopaedic ... " ?
Um, yeah. Times like that, gentle guidance assuming good faith ...
- d.