[WikiEN-l] Dealing with overenthusiastic speedy nominators (was There are no pictures in Wikipedia any more)

[David Gerard]

On 29/09/2007, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> In an effort to hold back the tide of goldfarming speedy-tagging, I've
> been going to these page:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Importance_or_significance_not_asserted_pages_for_speedy_deletion


> and removing clearly bogus speedy tags, and leaving a commenter on the
> tagger's page something like:
>
> ==Clearly erroneous A7==
>
> The speedy criteria are hard and don't stretch - please take more care
> with these. (This is becoming a matter of
> [http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2007/09/10/two-million-english-wikipedia-articles-celebrate/
> public] [http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2007/07/10/unwanted-new-articles-in-wikipedia/
> concern] and PR problems, so a few people are looking at all CSDs and
> particularly A7s lately.) Thanks! - ~~~~


- d.