Andrew Gray wrote:
On 07/11/2007, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
I'm always on the side of the content.
A7 must still die, as everyone should know.
Today's lovely example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franz-Hermann_Br%C3%BCner&diff...
"''Franz-Hermann Brüner''' is the director general of [[OLAF]] the European Anti-Fraud Office" ... [two more sentences, two refs]
Tagged as A7 within four minutes.
There seems to be a general bias against articles not about the Anglosphere. I doubt the appointed head of some major US or UK government agency would've been similarly tagged with db-bio and the explanation "appointed bureaucrat?"
I'd propose that people should be *very* careful about speedy-tagging people and things from countries they're not from, especially non-English-speaking countries, unless they're either obvious crap (i.e. an autobiography by a high school student) or the person has first done some research to establish that the thing is not notable even in that country---keeping in mind that the fact that a German person is not well-known _in the US_ is not a valid reason for speedy deletion.
-Mark