Keith Old writes:
"After all, one of the reasons for Speedy Deletion is that an article has not established notability of the subject."
No. Lots of our articles don't *establish* notability, and they're not speediable at all. The A7 CSD is for articles that don't *assert* notability. If an article contains a (reasonably credible) claim of notability, that is enough to take it out of the category. The criterion is somewhat elastic, but there is apparently some ongoing work to tighten it, by providing illustrative examples or otherwise. So if you write an article "Bobby Moore, a player for West Ham, was the captain of the 1966 World Cup winning England football team", it stop far short of establishing notability (no references) but it does undeniably *assert* notability.