MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote this:
"Name one article that was wrongly deleted in the past 3 days."
Oh I haven't done speedy patrol for a while, so I thought I'd take a quick look for you and see what I could find. I only looked at the first page of the log,
FTSEurofirst 80: "FTS Eurofirst 80 Index is a stock index of European stocks."
And there's a link.
Plenty of context, infinitely expandable--you can add the history, who compiles it, who uses it, compare it to other indexes of this type in the same and other markets, and so on. Excellent encyclopedia-fodder.
A brief google search shows that this index is cited by the OECD, so it's unlikely to be a hoax or vanity--and even if it were it would be a AfD candidate.
A similar article, FTSEurofirst 100, was also deleted.
Here's another:
Buffalo Lake, Alberta: "Buffalo Lake is the fourth biggest lake in Alberta."
Short and sweet. Pop that on AfD and you'll have a decent article in no time. If anyone says "no context" I shall scream. It's the fourth biggest lake in Alberta, for heaven's sake! If it is we need an article on it, and if it isn't we'll find out soon enough.
13th key: "13th Key is a RPG mage using RPG Maker by Matthew Smith. It is a combination of A bad game and a good game in terms of grphics and gameplay."
Well a bit POV but not speediable. Of course I know who Matthew Smith is and the deleter didn't. He could have checked, though. He's the guy who wrote Manic Miner for the Spectrum as a seventeen-year-old, and he has a Wikipedia article.
Are these articles worth bothering about? Possibly. Depends what kind of mood I'm in. At the very worst, each one of these is AfD territory, not a speedy---as far as twelve hours ago--and I only looked at speedies by one particular RC patroller.
So perhaps some people were a bit trigger happy with speedying, but non of that proves AfD isn't working like it should, which is why I asked for such a wrongly deleted article.
Let me rephrase: "Is there any article that was wrongly deleted within the past 3 days as a result of ignorance of the nominator or sheep voting by others without check the article and possible sources?"
Highly controversial articles like schools and roads, should be kept out of this particular list, because whether their deletion was wrong depends on whatever POV you hold on the issue.
--Mgm
On 9/14/05, Tony Sidaway minorityreport@bluebottle.com wrote:
Oh I haven't done speedy patrol for a while, so I thought I'd take a quick look for you and see what I could find. I only looked at the first page of the log,
FTSEurofirst 80: "FTS Eurofirst 80 Index is a stock index of European stocks."
And there's a link.
Plenty of context, infinitely expandable--you can add the history, who compiles it, who uses it, compare it to other indexes of this type in the same and other markets, and so on. Excellent encyclopedia-fodder.
That sounds like it would *barely* pass context standards to me..
(snip)
Here's another:
Buffalo Lake, Alberta: "Buffalo Lake is the fourth biggest lake in Alberta."
Short and sweet. Pop that on AfD and you'll have a decent article in no time. If anyone says "no context" I shall scream. It's the fourth biggest lake in Alberta, for heaven's sake! If it is we need an article on it, and if it isn't we'll find out soon enough.
Speedy undeleted and stub tagged. That's longer then most of our stubs! But, it's not like it would have been hard to re-write into a perfect stub. And, more information would have kept it from being speedied..
13th key: "13th Key is a RPG mage using RPG Maker by Matthew Smith. It is a combination of A bad game and a good game in terms of grphics and gameplay."
Well a bit POV but not speediable. Of course I know who Matthew Smith is and the deleter didn't. He could have checked, though. He's the guy who wrote Manic Miner for the Spectrum as a seventeen-year-old, and he has a Wikipedia article.
Uhm...that *REALLY* sounds like something that some 15 year old made when he was bored, but if you know who he is, then I guess it's not. More information would have kept it from being speedied. I wouldn't object if you wrote a new stub for it.
Are these articles worth bothering about? Possibly. Depends what kind of mood I'm in. At the very worst, each one of these is AfD territory, not a speedy---as far as twelve hours ago--and I only looked at speedies by one particular RC patroller.
They're halfway decent stubs, but we really don't need a lot of one line articles, and we probably really didn't loose anything by deleting them.
On 14/09/05, Phroziac phroziac@gmail.com wrote:
They're halfway decent stubs, but we really don't need a lot of one line articles, and we probably really didn't loose anything by deleting them.
Well, we lose the bits of information they do contain, and remember: every article started out as a stub.
The flip side is: what do we gain by deleting them? Nothing, I contend.
Dan
On 9/15/05, Dan Grey dangrey@gmail.com wrote:
On 14/09/05, Phroziac phroziac@gmail.com wrote:
They're halfway decent stubs, but we really don't need a lot of one line articles, and we probably really didn't loose anything by deleting them.
Well, we lose the bits of information they do contain, and remember: every article started out as a stub.
there are a lot of ftse indexs with the exception of couple of them merging them into one article would be the sensible thing to do.
as for you second claim
[[Joseph Ruttenberg]]
Tony Sidaway wrote:
FTSEurofirst 80: "FTS Eurofirst 80 Index is a stock index of European stocks."
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A similar article, FTSEurofirst 100, was also deleted.
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Buffalo Lake, Alberta: "Buffalo Lake is the fourth biggest lake in Alberta."
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13th key: "13th Key is a RPG mage using RPG Maker by Matthew Smith. It is a combination of A bad game and a good game in terms of grphics and gameplay."
So have they been undeleted and expanded yet?
On 9/14/05, Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
So have they been undeleted and expanded yet?
Well Buffalo Lake, Alberta is undeleted and pending expansion. But, I added a stub tag which doubled it's length!