On 5/21/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
Not really. For some reason fair use deletion are pretty controversial and I doubt very much whether we'd delete many of them if we relied on straw polls. So we have a speedy for them because, basically, there are a lot of people on Wikipedia who are willing to pack a straw poll but not willing to do the thinking necessary to make a reasonable decision.
Not to mention that there's simply a huge number of image uploads per day. "Speedy" deletion is exactly that, speedy, and in the case of images it allows us to make qualified judgment calls within a reasonable timeframe. I would even argue that in the case of images, we could be a bit less conservative about deleting than we are now. For instance, on Commons, images are often flagged to be deleted "7 days from now unless a source is provided". Most of those should be speedy deleted with a brief note to the uploader.
Perhaps we need a middle ground between "speedy" admin actions and full community review, such as a quorum by n admins.
Erik