[WikiEN-l] Banality threshold

[Andrew Gray]

On 01/10/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> 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.

There are no shortage of admins who run bot-assisted deletion tools
and uncritically accept any tag placed on an article as valid without
pausing to read, which effectively means that a bad tag won't get
challenged.

One, who I remember writing to this very mailing list about almost
exactly ten months ago, was running at three deletions a minute for
over an hour with something like a 4% rejection rate. There's got to
be false positives there, and no shortage of them...


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- Andrew Gray
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