(A bit off topic) That also reminds me of someone claiming an 11th-century King was nn because it only had 20000 Google hits.
On 5/10/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/05/07, Gallagher Mark George m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
Towards the end of my adminship, I was removing improperly-placed tags at least as often as I was speedying articles. Admins tend to know what they're doing, but get very lazy and instead rely on the judgment of users who *don't* know what they're doing but think they do because these chappies on the anti-vandalism IRC channel gave them the good oil.
I remember one article about an American high school that was tagged for deletion on notability grounds.
My personal favourite is currently [[Edward the Elder]] - a tenth-century King of Wessex, succeeded Alfred the Great. Someone replaced the page with particularly nasty vandalism, defamatory claims about someone entirely unrelated - a guy in the US called Jeremy, in fact.
Somone promptly tagged it for deletion, and another person rolled in and deleted it; all gone in ten minutes, without either of them looking at the history or wondering why the page had such an irrelevant title...
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