As the administrator responsible, I apologize. This happened a couple of
days ago; the user did indeed leave a polite note, for which I am grateful,
to which I responded with a note about facetious edit summaries. This was an
error of judgement on my part; probably because I had spent too long
deleting articles that day, for which I also apologize. I shall find
unwilling victims to shunt the workload onto in future.
-Gurch
-----Original Message-----
From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org]
On Behalf Of Luna
Sent: 06 December 2006 06:33
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Speedy deletion patrol
If this is an isolated incident, it's probably easier to deal with it by
leaving the particular admin a polite note explaining the misunderstanding,
or by working through deletion review (WP:DRV). Unless you're trying to get
at some greater trend or history of bad decisions. I know I've made a few
mistakes, but once they're pointed out to me, I'm usually willing to correct
them, or at least request/accept review from the community.
Just a thought,
-Luna
On 12/5/06, David Boothroyd <david(a)election.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I agree with this. A few days ago I created [[338171]]. Being rather
bored at the time I gave a facetious edit summary which claimed the
article was all about the number 338,171. It was swiftly tagged with a
speedy delete tag, and then deleted (despite me having quickly put a
{{hangon}}).
The article was actually a redirect to T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of
Arabia"). Wanting privacy, in later life Lawrence re-enlisted in the
RAF as an Aircraftsman (equivalent of Private in the Army), and was
given 338171 as his service number. He often signed himself "338171
A/C Shaw", prompting Noel Coward to ask him "May I call you 338?".
It was quite obvious on reading the article that it was actually a
redirect. If the admin had checked the article to which it was
redirected he would have found the reason explained there. So while
it's legitimate to claim to have been misled by the edit summary, that
really doesn't justify mistakenly speedying a perfectly good redirect.
I appreciate that speedy deletion patrollers are often overworked but
overwork is not an excuse for lack of common sense.
--
David Boothroyd -
http://www.election.demon.co.uk
david(a)election.demon.co.uk (home) dboothroyd(a)westminster.gov.uk
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