[WikiEN-l] New York Times article

[Andrew Gray]

On 20/06/06, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/20/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:10:54 -0400, "The Cunctator"
> > <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > [re no anonymous creation]
> > >What specifically were the effects?
> >
> > A massive reduction in "things made up in school one day", and
> > consequently the speedy deletion queue.  Or so it seems to me - I no
> > longer do newpage patrol though (appeared to be much less to do after
> > that change).  But you know how it is, if there were a strong
> > community consensus in favour of going back I bet it would happen.
>
>
> Didn't speedy deletion get implemented around the same time or even after
> the change?

Speedy deletion's been around quite a while - the policy page dates to
January 2004, and was descriptive then, so it's probably late 2003.

You can see an early form of speedy in mid-2003:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Deletion_policy&oldid=1674643

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- Andrew Gray
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