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

[Michael Noda]

On 9/29/07, John Lee <johnleemk at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I dunno, from my experience, the most abused tag was the one for no context
> - it seemed to be used as an IDONTLIKEIT or IDONTUNDERSTANDIT or a "too
> short" tag, regardless of whether the article gave sufficient context. As
> just one example, I once saw a two-sentence stub on a mayor of New York City
> being tagged for speedy deletion on the grounds that it gave insufficient
> context, even though it was pretty damn clear what the article was about.
> From my experience, idiots abusing this tag would probably be an equal, if
> not greater, problem.

What a coincidence; David's first message just led to me rescuing a
one-sentence article on a mayor of New York City which had been tagged
{{db-bio}}.  Clearly mayors of New York as a class have never done
anything notable, and therefore are just fair game for deletion these
days </snark>