On 22/06/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
David Carson (DavidCarson@perception.com.au) [050622 10:18]:
You'll gain a deep and personal insight into what makes someone into an axewielding deletionist. ("HITLER? IF HE'S SO DAMN NOTABLE HE CAN WRITE HIS OWN ARTICLE! DELETE!")
'''Delete''', vanity, non-notable German bureaucrat. --~~~~
*Only made corporal? Who cares? Monorchism isn't encyclopedic in itsel either. Delete - ~~~~
Merge and redirect to [[List of minor Chaplin characters]]?
BTW, in the job ad, I lied about the cookies.
Heh.
Newpages is an... education. I spent some time on there last week; one or two pages worth provided a couple of dozen speedy deletions (most of which someone else caught first), a fight on WP:TFD (complete with vote-editing, wild accusations of vandalism, et al), a requested undelete, a set of vandalism to be traced, one article ending up being written from scratch, and an interesting study of the politics of Andorra for a couple of hours.
It's that sort of thing that made me the man I am today.
(Namely, one very far behind on his deadlines.)