Just as some data, drawing no conclusions:
I've just now looked at 25 consecutive items up for speedy. There were: 15 new articles that were valid speedies, and 2 new ones that were not valid speedies (one probably suitable for deletion via prod or afd), 5 older articles that were valid speedies, and 3 that were not, all probably suitable for deletion via prod or afd).
On 11/16/07, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/16/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:42:38 -0800, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
One approach that would cut out some of the worst instances would be to restrict speedy deletion to only: 1) copyright violations; or 2) new articles from the past week. If an article that isn't a copyright violation has been on Wikipedia for two years, surely it can wait another week as a PROD before being deleted, and the "keep up with the torrent of new articles" justification doesn't apply.
That makes sense. It would be helpful to have the tail of the edit history in the delete dialog, but that's probably too much like hard work.
Guy (JzG)
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