The idea is to test the speedy deletion process with articles that shouldn't be speedy deleted.
Links to several of the articles in the process and their fates have been posted to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/Newbie_treatment
But at present it is skewed towards the ones tagged for deletion, there are others as yet unpatrolled that won't be disclosed until they have faced the people who patrol the back end of the unpatrolled queue.
WereSpielChequers
Message: 6 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:38:53 +1100 From: Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How friendly are we to Newbies? Update on the create an article as a newbie challenge To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: b8ceeef70910272238p654f1ebdsfe94b15ad6a6fe8b@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:55 AM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
I want to personally look at the articles and responses in more depth before I comment more, but this has been exceptionally valuable research.
Yes, can you please post the usernames and the articles that were created? If some were speedied, do you have the original text? Obviously we shouldn't be having an "omg rampant speedyism" debate if the articles were actually speedyable...
Steve