On 01/10/2007, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/10/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/10/2007, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Lack of notability is *not* a speedy criterion. Lack of *assertion* of notability is. You can assert notability in 60 minutes quite easily.
Lots of A7-tagged articles assert notability. A7 in practice `means "I don't like it."
A7-tagged, certainly, but how about A7-deleted? Non-admins don't (generally) know how to do admin work. If they did, they'd be admins.
There are no shortage of admins who run bot-assisted deletion tools and uncritically accept any tag placed on an article as valid without pausing to read, which effectively means that a bad tag won't get challenged.
One, who I remember writing to this very mailing list about almost exactly ten months ago, was running at three deletions a minute for over an hour with something like a 4% rejection rate. There's got to be false positives there, and no shortage of them...