On 6/12/07, Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
Agreed. With borderline A7s AfD should really be used instead, and the article given more time to develop. Even with routine A7s I usually run a quick Google search to see if there's something there other than the usual Myspace crap. I hope admins don't delete routinely based purely on the article actually being tagged (besides, didn't we have a vandal a while back who was tagging perfectly good, if obscure articles for CSD? I seem to remember something like that). The obvious exception are the A7s consisting of "Andrew Bloggins is in 6th grade in Ohio who likes homework". But for borderline ones, I should hope admins don't routinely trust the tagger. Bad idea.
I hope I'm not the only admin who does his due diligence before speedying anything. Sometimes I even look at the page history to be sure. I find that there are a lot of overenthusiastic taggers out there - I'd estimate that I take the tag off 1/4 to 1/3 of the articles with speedy tags I encounter. Sometimes they don't even fully read the article - I once came across one tagged for no assertion of notability when the article said that the subject hosts a radio show heard by 3 million people a week. (And most oddly, the article - despite apparently having been written by its subject - appears to understate the subject's importance, since a biography of him I found on Google asserts the show has an audience of 5 million.)
Johnleemk