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?)