Hello, To slightly play devil's advocate, I was recently playing with the anti vandalism tools and several times came across new articles that had been created. One was [[Gortex]], clearly a mis-spelling for [[Gore-Tex]]. So I wiped it and replaced it with a redirect. Fair enough, right?
Another was an apparent copyvio - I added a copyvio template. Still ok?
Then I came across [[GoogLunaPlex]] (sp?) It sounded like some sort of April Fool's joke or hoax or something. I put {deletebecause|probably hoax} or something on it. The trouble is, I wasn't really sure. What would be nice if there was a tag that said "At first glance, this is junk. Can someone please check this, and either remove this template, or complete the nomination". Instead, the only tag I know of basically says "This evil piece of trash needs to die now".
Hence your hurt feelings.
There are a lot of crap articles that created. I don't think tagging them for deletion is necessarily "assuming bad faith" - I believe the Gortex example was an editor working in good faith. It's simply a necessarily brusque way of dealing with a large number of articles of questionable worth.
I did come across another article called "Hook-catch" or something which I probably could have given your description of "apparent nn selfref neologism." It sounded like some term that a couple of kids had made up to describe getting their genitals caught in something - at first glance. I labelled it for deletion, but again, would have been very happy for someone to unlabel it if they had the faintest clue what it was actually about.
Steve
On 2/10/06, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.org wrote:
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This morning I began the process of writing [[cart00ney]] (with two zeros). I saved my work when I got up to refill my coffee, and when I returned, [[User:Savidan]] had nominated my incomplete stub for deletion with the cryptic reason "apparent nn selfref neologism." The article had existed for a grand total of nine (9) minutes. Savidan made no attempt to contact me, and made no effort to discuss the obviously in-progress article on its talk page.
Perhaps the full article would still be an "apparent nn selfref neologism," whatever that is. Perhaps the full article would deserve to be obliterated with all the contempt that the AfD regulars regularly heap on articles they don't understand or simply dislike. Perhaps it would belong in Wikipedia. You'll never know now. Nine (9) minutes after it was begun, Savidan eagerly began the process of destroying it before its creation had completed.
I don't really think we needed further demonstrations of the disgustingly toxic assumptions of bad faith that are inextricably integral to the entire AfD process, but I will take this opportunity to thank Savidan for yet another demonstration of how despicable it is.
Sean Barrett | Careful. We don't want to sean@epoptic.org | learn from this. --Calvin
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