On 9/20/05, Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/20/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
We should speedily delete obvious rubbish, and we do.
No, we don't. A ton of obvious rubbish must be sent to AfD because it's not covered by the CSD. Band vanity is the most obvious example, but there are many others, such as: neologisms, corporate vanity, personal essays/rants. No one can give any good reason why these should be deliberated upon, but they are, all in the name of making sure we never, ever delete a good article by accident; even if that means making editors who could be using their time to write articles deliberate on the merits of garbage.
- Ryan
Yes, of course you're right, though I agree with Kelly that RC patrol is
the most frequent user of IAR.
Afd does fulfil a need by letting us delete vanity and rants with a clean conscience, you're quite right. What I'm saying, and I'm sorry I have to repeat this, is that whatever it is that AfD does, it doesn't scale.
By the way, impressions can be deceptive. I just looked at AfD for September 1, chosen at random. I could have sworn that the delete rate in AfD must be around 90% if not higher, but I'll be buggered if I can find over 73 deletes, speedies, transwikis and whatnot out of 102 nominations. 71%.
So I randomly chose September 5. 88 out of 138. 63%.
So maybe this is a recent thing? August 20. 75 out of 102. 73%.
Further back? April 12. 41 out of 68. 60%.
Definitely not what I expected.