On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoekstra@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/16/08, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
A few years ago, what would happen was they'd close it, tag the article as a speedy-deletion candidate, and mark it as "per the deletion discussion [here]", or something similar. This was sort of frowned on, but simply because it meant an extra step - the deleting admin had to check the discussion was indeed a fair close.
Maybe in theory but in practice, half the admins watching CSD will swing at anything without examination or comment.
I have the same feeling about this, but is it in fact the case, or is it not so bad? The only reason I follow the feeling is that it is a common sentiment, but I have never seen anything what the sentiment is based on, apart from slapping a CSD tag on everything that moves from some editors. When I go over CSD, I decline between 30% and 50% (which is still a rough guess). Many still end up deleted at AfD though. I have no idea what other admins going over CAT:CSD do, or how well they look through an article (and the web) before deleting it.
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That's a little higher than what I do, but it's probably 20%-33% that I reject
Brian