[WikiEN-l] CSD (was: Conspiracy Theories)

Steve Summit scs at eskimo.com
Mon Jan 14 22:53:47 UTC 2008


David Carson wrote:
> To play Devil's Advocate, though, here's the initial version that was tagged
> for speedy deletion:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Mollo&oldid=184320631

Ah, good point.

> At the moment, a 20 minute old article would almost have fallen off the
> bottom of the 100 Newest Pages list. Which means it's virtually impossible
> to conduct a new pages patrol AND give every article 20 minutes grace to see
> if it turns out to grow beyond a one-liner with no assertion of notability.

Seems to me "sofixit" applies here, though -- if that's the way
new pages patrol works, it needs fixing.  (I would think that new
articles ought to be given at least a day before being tagged for
speedy deletion, unless they're obvious vandalism.  What does CSD say?)



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