The only speedy deletion criteria I am discussing is A7 (non-notability). I am not discussing any other flaws in the deletion process.
Someone else said that the notability criteria are horribly USA-biased. This may be true, to some extent.
Unless something is blatantly non-notable (for example "X is my classmate. Yesterday, we played a prank on a teacher..."), it should not be speedy deleted, but sent to AFD.
If I were an admin reviewing speedy deletion requests, I would swiftly delete attack pages, advertising, etc. but I would steer clear of speedy deletion requests under criterion A7, unless the article pertained to an area where I had reasonable expertise.
2007/4/12, Erica fangaili@gmail.com:
On 12/04/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Non-notability is not a reason for speedy deletion, only non-assertion of notability. There is very little room for systemic bias with CSD A7. An article about a notable person that does not assert that notability can be speedy deleted (the admin can't know they are
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On 4/12/07, Frederick Noronha fred@bytesforall.org wrote:
Well, I don't think so. Just to continue on this example, there are 732 links for Google for this group, and some time back we were saying that a presence in cyberspace is one of the factors on which notability could be determined. Anyone who checked the entry would have probably noticed this link which was put up originally itself: http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=com.ubuntu... FN
Honestly, it's not the admin's job to google everything. If the article creator doesn't specify a notiablity assertion, it's an A7 candidate.
Erica
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