On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, geni wrote:
Straub identified more than a weakness - he identified a complete failure of policy to meaningfully prevent spurious deletions. Which has been clear to anyone who follows DRV for a while.
Policy assumes people play fair.
Then policy is broken. Straub may be the only person who proposed spurious deletions as an experiment, but there are plenty of people who propose spurious deletions just because they like to propose spurious deletions. These people don't play fair any more than Straub did, and the lesson that Straub taught us applies to them too.
Just now, we've had [[Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/El_Goonish_Shive]] where I caught the same person trying to delete two webcomics articles using the same boilerplate paragraph while obviously not having checked to see if the claims made in the paragraph are valid for each specific article. Please don't tell me this person is playing fair.