[WikiEN-l] Afd nominations

[Anthony DiPierro]

> One of the things I found in my hunt through AfDs for invalid
> nominations and speedies was that there was a very, very small
> portion of the 117 articles I looked through that needed to be there.
> 15 or so should have been slam dunk keeps, or at least merges.
> Another good chunk were speedies. An equally large chunk, however,
> were, if not speedies, at least things that any sensible person who
> watches AfD for a day or two could determine the result of in
> advance. If we add "verifiability" as a speedy criterion, the number
> that could be speedied goes to around 85%, I think.


Verifiability is already a reason to move something to the talk page, and a
blank article is certainly a speedy (unless it was created by an admin),
isn't it?