[WikiEN-l] CSD always backlogged?

[John Lee]

On 5/19/07, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/18/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Seriously though, non-admins can help too, by going through the
> > candidates and checking whether they really are eligible for speedy
> > deletion or whether the tagger was just too lazy to send it to
> > articles for deletion or use proposed deletion.
>
> If you really think the people you refer to are just "lazy", you've
> probably made an excessively broad assumption of both good faith, and
> competence.
>
> Next time you see an RFA candidate with 25,000 edits, 4,000 of which
> are CSD or {{prod}} tags which have been declined (otherwise, after
> all, they wouldn't be visible in user's contribs), I doubt "lazy" will
> be the first word coming to mind.


If an editor can tag 4,000 articles but can't even bother to, for example,
check the article history or what links here, then that editor is lazy and
irresponsible. Let's not mince words.

Johnleemk