Ray Saintonge said:
(Listing extremely brief school stubs for deeltion)
Even then, a pre-condition for putting the matter on VfD should be that there has been an attempt to contact the contributor in a good faith attempt to resolve the problem. (Admittedly this would be less possible when the contribution is from an anonymous IP.) Absence of such an effort should be reason enough to remove the item from VfD.
I don't think contacting the original contributor is necessary. There are cleanup methods already around and people willing to perform them. For instance you could pop any really brief school stubs on my Cleanup taskforce desktop. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tony_Sidaway/Desk
I do agree that people putting some kinds of stubs up on VfD should be more considerate than at present. If you've listed a certain class of article on VfD before and found that it tends to get kept, perhaps you're not considering alternatives such as cleanup seriously enough.