I hadnt been taking much notice of this thread, but in my irregular
series
on Victorian philanthropists I got around to [[Sydney Waterlow]] and
happened to notice some deleted edits. Someone had only a few months ago
linked a URL of a biography to an article that was redlinked from a few
places (and possibly in requested encyclopaedic articles for all I know,
given the date not unlikely to be in Brittanica 1911 though I havent
checked). This was speedied shortly after. I think this wasnt a good
decision really - whoever speedied it could have written a stub in a few
minutes from the information in the link. The link stuck in by an
anon IP
seems more like a cry for help ("please write about this") than a speedy
candidate.
Justinc