(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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/05/07, Gallagher Mark George
<m.g.gallagher(a)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...
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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