[WikiEN-l] Why AFD works Great

Tue Oct 18 06:57:25 UTC 2005

geni wrote:

>On 10/18/05, Justin Cormack <justin at specialbusservice.com> wrote:
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>>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.
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>>Justinc
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>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).~~~~
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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