On 10/18/05, Justin Cormack
<justin(a)specialbusservice.com> wrote:
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
It was probably speedied by someone on RC patrol. Lots of articles
turn up that are nothing more than a link. These isn't really time to
do anything about them (and it isn't as if cleanup is crying out for
more articles).~~~~
Ah!!! Now I understand the function of "speedy". It's there for the
convenience of those who are so overworked that they haven't got time to
write "nn delete". 8-)
Ec