On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:36:06 +0100, "MacGyverMagic/Mgm" macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
RoboGeo: the sources include two articles that are not written by its creators.
So, an article was tagged for speedy which said, in its entirety, "RoboGEO is a program to synchronize a GPS tracklog with a collection of time-coded pictures. A demo is available for download on the Internet. It intentionally adds errors of around a kilometer into the data."
It was created by an account "Iwanttocreateanarticle", whose contributions to that date were precisely nothing other than this article. Since creating RoboGeo, that editor has added a new category, Category:Demoware, which currently has one article (RoboGeo), and added links to RoboGeo in [[TopoFusion]], [[Google Earth]] and [[Geocoded photo]]. There are some evil-hearted bastards who would call that a single-purpose account.
It's certainly not especially surprising that someone was a bit suspicious, is it? And frankly if the article *had* been speedied and then re-created as it is now, with sources, it would not have been speedied again. As it is, *it was never deleted*.
I think we should be very wary of inferring anything from the tagging (and non-deletion) of this article.
Guy (JzG)