This is idiotic. All this wasted effort over a damn 35 byte useless microstub. And Fred's comment that what I and others have done is somehow vandalism is way over the top: On the day in question I spent 2 and a half freaken hours going through the new pages list fixing dozens of stubs, half of which were on inane cartoon characters, and wikified, NPOVed and added content to many more short and full-blown articles. I also found several copyright violations and added those to the deletion queue. I do this type of thing every several days. I'm sure they must have, but I don't recall the last time Fred or Cunc did this.
And yes, I also deleted about a dozen micro-stubs which /did not/ in my opinion meet the policy definition of "at least a decent definition". The article Cunc is battering about was the best of the bunch -- that's why I included the entire text in the deletion summary (that way if somebody disagreed then they could recreate it). There is furthermore no requirement that all pages that are to be deleted must be on the votes for deletion page before they are deleted -- the policy only states that if there is some question, then post.
Vandal indeed. I'm sick of this whole episode. And Cunc don't be surprised if I begin to ignore your posts to my talk page in the same why you ignore my post to your talk page (thinking of the tribute article comments here).
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
PS I get the list on a digest, so if there was an apology by Fred or if Fred misspoke then I apologize for reacting in this manor.
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