Unfortunately, the things which CAN be quickly deleted are very limited. Right now, there is a huge number of pages written by a troll named [[El Coronado]] which are obvious fiction, but they are not allowed to be speedy deleted, because obviously false information is not an acceptable condition (by some) for speedy deletion. Instead, we have to go through the cumbersome VfD process to get rid of them. If obviously false information was an accpetable criterion, then we could have gotten rid of all of this user's creations already, and we wouldn't have several different entries on VfD for them.
If there were no VfD, what would be the inclusionists' acceptable process for getting rid of this false information?
Currently, there is a VfD entry for someone name [[Paul Buissonneau]]. At the time of its adding to VfD, the article consisted of: "Paul Buissonneau gave lessons to the great Yvon Deschamps as well as Claude Jasmin and Robert Charlebois. Paul Buissonneau was born in France in 1926. He then came to Canada. He is still alive.".
It took a great deal of work and research by several people actively involved in the VfD process to make this into a useable article. Would those of you objecting to VfD actually have preferred that it have remained as it was in its original state?
I am an active participant in [[Cleanup]]. But there are hundreds of articles listed there that never get worked on. By putting a 5-day deadline on them on the VfD page, we get some very reasonable articles, which then get kept. VfD is NOT just a "deletionist" playground, it's a serious effort by many people to make decent articles, or to figure out what to do with articles that aren't decent.
RickK
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