[WikiEN-l] newbie culture

[Steve Bennett]

On 6/16/06, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
> The other day I got reverted for removing a speedy tag from a good
> article (the thing was tagged as vanity, which is not a reason for
> deletion).  That's not the good bit.  The good bit is: I removed it
> again, and got reverted by a completely different user, and was told
> that nobody may remove speedy tags, but must use {{hangon}} until a
> discussion at [[Wikipedia:Speedy deletions]] has been concluded.

Fwiw, in those situations, if I remove it again, I would tend to
replace it with a comment like <!-- according to [[WP:FOO]] vanity is
not a reason to speedy. Consider {{prod}} or {{afd}} instead? -->

Steve