On 11/24/05, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
Cat:CSD isn't bad at all. I do it regularly, at random times; I've never seen more than a screenful of stuff there. Pick a swathe, delete about half, leave a quarter tagged but undeleted where I'm unsure, and the rest either untag as not a CSD, resend to AfD or make a rediurect. Quick and simple, and I've never seen much of a backlog - if you're an admin, it's about the simplest maintenance task going.
I delete a small number of articles on sight - ones where the total content is "asdf" or "jimmy sux cok heh heh" but otherwise tag for speedy deletion - it's good practice, it takes a trivial amount of time, and what do we lose by it?
Imagain the catigory getting burried as everyone on RC patrol stops speeding. Add in a few more people like [[User:Zunaid]] and you have a problem. The speedy system works for the most part (it would work better if people stoped trying to apply IAR to it). It is one of the few bits of janitorial work on wikipedia that isn't weighed down by bureaucracy. If you want a second pair of eyes on deletion you are free to add them at [[Special:Log]]. Otherwise ponder the wisdom of meta:instruction creep.
The whole point of speedy deletion is that the cases are striaghtforward enough that they don't require any real judment.
-- geni