On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:29:32 -0400, "The Cunctator" cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
Didn't speedy deletion get implemented around the same time or even after the change?
Speedy had certainly been around for a while beforehand.
I guess my point is that Wikipedia is too complicated and big to draw firm conclusions from any one's anecdotal experience, and attempts at rigorous analysis should be encouraged.
For sure. On the other hand, when something is widely believed to be doing more good than harm why not leave it place while we do the analysis? An analysis based on the first month would have been misleading anyway since people have started creating accounts to document things made up in school one day (but it seems to me to be much easier to deal with this kind of silliness now).
Guy (JzG)