[WikiEN-l] Speedy deletion patrol

[Steve Bennett]

On 12/6/06, 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}}).

Heh, you redirected a number to a person, and were surprised it got
deleted? I think the onus on weird redirects like that is on the
person creating to justify its existence, not on the the potential
deleter to search for any kind of rationale behind an apparently
bizarre redirect...

Steve