On 5/21/06, charles matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: I've ran in to the newly created "prod patrol" before. first for deleting an article 3 hours before the 5th day They say policy states a prod must have a 360 hours grace period, so you CANNOT delete a prodded article on the 5th day, but you must wait until the 6th, just so be sure that all articles (specially those tagged late night) get 360 hours. it annoyed me more so since they agreed the article was crap, and should have been deleted, they were complaining I didn't wait a few hours more. they also posted on WP:AN that *gasp* the prod count of some day was off by ONE!! somebody messed up with the proposed deletion process! alert all admins! I guess since I'm not putting the "prod patrol" userbox on my page, I'm no longer qualified to deal with prods.