2008/12/4 Michael Bimmler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Like I said in the original post, I would not have posted this letter >>> had I believed this to be a one-off incident. But I have seen THREE such >>> incidents in the past week, including one incident of a literally >>> encyclopedic shipping company tagged for an A7 speedy deletion. None of >>> these nominations appear to have been made in bad faith, but I think >>> they are all badly misguided. >> >> Tagged, but not deleted? Sounds like the system is working, then. > > Except that it was, apparently, only not deleted because the original > author noted it and put a "hangon" in there. Had the author been away > at that time, it might have been deleted by the next admin coming > along. Yes this is speculation and yes I cannot assume whether that > would have happened. But still, closing this as "Oh, but in this case > it didn't actually *get* deleted, so move on" strikes me as a bit > simplistic.
That's why we have hangon tags, though, isn't it? Sure, the system isn't perfect, but until someone proposes an alternative that is better I think it's good enough. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
