Dan Rosenthal wrote:
[irritating top-posting fixed]
On 5/3/06, Gallagher Mark George
<m.g.gallagher(a)student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
The question of whether an article establishes
notability is not
one that can, or should, be answered by a single admin working very
very fast to delete as much stuff as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately there are a few admins who seem to think "well, it's
tagged for speedy, who am I to judge? That would be elitist." Oh,
and let's not forget the non-admin CVUers who encourage that view
...
Uh, I'm one of said non-admin CVU-ers, and I don't encourage that
view. On the other hand, I could CSD a half dozen highly notable
subjects on wikipedia simply because the articles make no assertion
of the notablity. The fact is, that the vast majority of speedy
deletions are shite articles,
either vandalism/vanity, myspace, external redirects, etc. Are you
saying those shouldn't be speedied? We all know that AfD is totally
free from vote-stacking and any other forum of corruption. *cough*I
Nothing wrong with non-admins doing RC/newpage/etc. patrol; I did it
myself for ages before adminship was thrust upon me. Being a CVU
member, eh, well, nobody's perfect.
You can't take the half the sentence in isolation. I was referring
specifically to "non-admin CVUers who encourage [the view that anything
tagged for speedy *must* be deleted]". A non-admin CVUer who doesn't
encourage that view is, therefore, beyond my scope.
As for "the fact is ..." umm, yes ... I *know*, quite well, what the
articles that usually crop up in CAT:CSD look like. But thanks for the
tip anyway. I speedy dozens of articles every time I go RC patrolling
or (more often) clearing out CSD or (surprisingly) reading the latest
list of AfD nominations ... and despite this, there's still several
articles that nobody in their right mind would want to speedy, but
someone's tagged them anyway. Oh, and often you get someone with "CVU
member" proudly displayed on their userpage complaining that you've
disrupted their hard work by refusing to delete someone else's!
--
Mark Gallagher
"What? I can't hear you, I've got a banana on my head!"
- Danger Mouse
--
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.2/330 - Release Date: 3/05/2006