[WikiEN-l] Deletion of unreferenced living person biographies

[Charles Matthews]

Tony Sidaway wrote:
> On 9/12/09, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Of course there's a process for speedy deletion.
>>     
>
> Not at all.  An admin simply deletes an article.  That's a speedy deletion.
>   
You're both correct, said he soothingly. An admin deletes after going 
through some mental evolutions and checks (of the article's history, 
notably). This is invisible on the site until the deletion, often (I 
have a habit of moving an article to a corrected title, because you are 
supposed to check the backlinks ... won't be any to an incorrect 
spelling). The process itself is properly chartered: it is a "Wikipedia 
process" in that sense.

Charles