I sympathize, but, in the end, we can only judge articles by what they are now and what's in their history. We can hazzard a guess that an article is going to improve rapidly into an encyclopaedic golden apple, but the chance of that happening seems less likely when the article is called [[cart00ney]] (with two zeros). I'm not saying that we can't have good articles with names like this, but, on average, this stuff isn't. If I had Savidan's watchlist, I might have done the same.
And the moral of the story is: don't press that 'Save page' button until your article looks like it's going somewhere good.
Alternative solution: create a 'Gone for coffee, back in 10' template. Unfortunate side-effect of such an alternative: out of the AFD into the TFD!
Gareth Hughes.
On 10/02/06, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.org wrote:
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This morning I began the process of writing [[cart00ney]] (with two zeros). I saved my work when I got up to refill my coffee, and when I returned, [[User:Savidan]] had nominated my incomplete stub for deletion with the cryptic reason "apparent nn selfref neologism." The article had existed for a grand total of nine (9) minutes. Savidan made no attempt to contact me, and made no effort to discuss the obviously in-progress article on its talk page.
Perhaps the full article would still be an "apparent nn selfref neologism," whatever that is. Perhaps the full article would deserve to be obliterated with all the contempt that the AfD regulars regularly heap on articles they don't understand or simply dislike. Perhaps it would belong in Wikipedia. You'll never know now. Nine (9) minutes after it was begun, Savidan eagerly began the process of destroying it before its creation had completed.
I don't really think we needed further demonstrations of the disgustingly toxic assumptions of bad faith that are inextricably integral to the entire AfD process, but I will take this opportunity to thank Savidan for yet another demonstration of how despicable it is.
Sean Barrett | Careful. We don't want to sean@epoptic.org | learn from this. --Calvin
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