I've done some CSD a while back and I noticed how after I got rid of 10 pages, another 20 were added. It's like mopping with the water running and the fact there's so much mistagging going on doesn't make it a particular speedy process as it was supposed to be.

If you're arguing, it probably isn't a speedy candidate.

Chris Picone wrote: on do do, right Aside from attack articles, a CSD backlog is not serious, and it is cleared regularly. 40 min is quite acceptable - indeed a day or two wouldn't concern me. We've backlogs that have been sitting for months, and don't need the admin tools to deal with - if you are keen to help, start there. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_backlog Indeed the admin related backlogs are the least of our concerns. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

We've backlogs that have been sitting for months, and don't need the admin tools to deal with - if you are keen to help, start there. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_backlog Indeed the admin related backlogs are the least of our concerns.

I don't think CSD has a backlog at all. The tag should probably be removed. A large number of articles in the category doesn't make it backlogged, it just makes it busy. There are lots of articles there because lots of articles are being tagged - just as many as being untagged and deleted. I do encourage admins to spend a few minutes helping out - sometimes you see something that makes your day. I just deleted an article about an independent record label. The author had added a {{hangon}} tag and explained on the talk page that: "My page shound not be deleted because i need it to avertise my new record label." (sic) Probably the easiest decision I've made on a CSD. (barring db-author's, I guess) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Seriously though, non-admins can help too, by going through the candidates and checking whether they really are eligible for speedy deletion or whether the tagger was just too lazy to send it to articles for deletion or use proposed deletion.

Next time you see an RFA candidate with 25,000 edits, 4,000 of which are CSD or {{prod}} tags which have been declined (otherwise, after all, they wouldn't be visible in user's contribs), I doubt "lazy" will be the first word coming to mind.