G'day Steve,
On 6/16/06, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@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? -->
Oh, the issue's been resolved. That it occurred at all, and that two separate users --- neither of whom would consider themselves newbies --- argued the speedy tag should be kept for "procedural" reasons, is the worrying bit.