On 9/29/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@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.
And that is why the delete button is only available to admins. If more people were capable of correctly determining whether or not an article should be speedied, more people could be given the delete button. While it would be nice if new article patrollers would tag things correctly, it's not a serious problem. The speedy deletion procedure is designed to compensate for people that don't know what is and isn't speediable by requiring an admin to make the final decision.
I usually don't deal with deletion topics, so please tell me if this is already done, but could the automated tools (I'm thinking Twinkle, here) leave a note on a tagger's talk page if an admin decides that a CSD tag is in error? Erroneous CSD tags seems like a good thing to keep track of, especially compared to the stats that actually do get mentioned at RFAs (not that I'm in favor of making RFA any harder, just that it might be an indicator of judgment.)