On 26/12/06, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
- A recently created article about a newly appointed bishop in the Church
of Norway was nominated by a self-described "disiplined deletionist" for speedy deletion.
Non-notability is not a reason for speedy deletion, only non-assertion of notability. Assuming the article said he was a bishop, I think that is an assertion of notability. Deciding whether or not it's a good enough assertion is a job for AfD.
Unfortunately, there's no rule that will prevent really stupid deletion nominations. And speedy is for obvious rubbish.
AFDs are at least slower than speedy. I have *occasionally* speedy-kept an AFDed article when it's obvious to the knowledgeable on the subject that the nomination was ignorant at best, though even then I'll typically say "unless anyone substantially objects by tomorrow I'll speedy-keep this" just to be sure (since the article certainly wouldn't be deleted by the next day otherwise). A sort of "bend all rules within reason to check they're still flexible enough to be sensible" approach. No-one's gotten drastically upset with it yet.
- d.