[WikiEN-l] Banality threshold

[Ray Saintonge]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 01/10/2007, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 01/10/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Lack of notability is *not* a speedy criterion. Lack of *assertion* of
>>> notability is. You can assert notability in 60 minutes quite easily.
>>>       
>> Lots of A7-tagged articles assert notability. A7 in practice `means "I
>> don't like it."
>>     
> A7-tagged, certainly, but how about A7-deleted? Non-admins don't
> (generally) know how to do admin work. If they did, they'd be admins.
> Speedy deletions are an admin task, so it is unreasonable to expect
> non-admins to be able to do it correctly. (Many can, certainly, but
> also, many can't.)
Wow!  What a series of non-sequiturs.  I'm not an admin after 5 1/2 
years because I have never sought the power.  Deletion is an admin task, 
but it doesn't exactly take a lot of training to push the right keys to 
delete something.  If you add in the social and equitable aspects to 
deletions it becomes clear that a lot of admins don't know how to do it 
correctly either.

Ec