On 9/13/05, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
As what looks like the most radical inclusionist in this debate, I should note that when I have the stomach for new pages patrol, about half the pages should die. Not all of these are clear cut speedies, but most of them are clear cut deletes. Since new pages patrol is pure hell, and your eyes burn rapidly from the stupid, I tend to be very supportive of people being given a long leash when they do it.
Half is a little high
No, it's not. If you exclude new redirects, I would say that between 50% and 75% of the new pages created on any given day are deletion fodder and get speedied. Note that you wouldn't know this unless you've actually done new page patrol, because the admins who do it tend to be very efficient at it; total crap pages only last a few minutes, typically. (Of course, sometimes the same page gets speedied ten times in as many minutes, too...)
Kelly