[WikiEN-l] Speedy deletion patrol

[matthew.britton at btinternet.com]

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 at Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at 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 at 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 at election.demon.co.uk (home) dboothroyd at westminster.gov.uk 
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