On 9/20/07, Adrian aldebaer@googlemail.com wrote:
I wonder if it's just my own twisted perception, but it appears courtesy blankings are on a steep rise. I know this has been discussed at length, and I don't disagree with any particular blanking and I also assume there are more or less valid reasons in each individual case, esp. when it involves the use of Oversight. But I wonder if there is something like agreed-upon prerequisites or standards for a courtesy blanking to occur.
The last CB (not involving oversight) I noticed was of the Jeffrey Gustafson RfAr, on which I recognised nothing out of the ordinary. I don't mind the blanking itself, just wondering by which standards the blanking happened; or whether there are such standards in the first place, written or not.
Adrian
Err, they may be on the rise. There's a huge distinction between courtesy blankings, courtesy deletions, courtesy oversights. There is a "courtesy-blanked" template, it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Courtesy_blanking - sensibly it recommends its always substituted, so the "what links here" doesn't reveal all the courtesy blanked pages.
This does lead to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy#Courtesy_blanking which already gives some guidelines on courtesy blankings. The policy there says don't do it lightly, but if there's a huge upswing recently, that can be updated.
WilyD