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I (creator of this article) have not finished expanding its content (as it is newly created). I am also an administrator and don't take kindly to having CSD A7 templates dropped on an article that I've barely begun to work on. In this case, patience is most definitely a virtue. Bumm13 (talk) 22:47, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
- No offense, but I wasn't aware administrator status earned any special protection from CSD, or prevented article creators from waiting until an article satisfies inclusion criteria before submitting it or from using an "under construction" template (which I will go ahead and do on your behalf now). Perhaps doing these things, or making a user subpage for article drafts, would help you to avoid future frustration. - Vianello (Talk) 22:55, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
- Well, no, of course admin status doesn't earn special protection from CSD. At the same time, there's no requirement to prepare an entire article draft in a subpage or sandbox, either. The editor who added the CSD template perhaps should read Wikipedia:Assume good faith before making further assumptions about the validity of content. There's always plenty of time to add CSD templates and/or bring articles to AFD if a page's content is of dubious value. Bumm13 (talk) 23:04, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
- Putting out an ineligible article isn't exactly editing in bad faith, though. It happens all the time from perfectly good faith editors. Even if it's new, I really don't think tagging an article for CSD is an assumption of bad faith. Regardless, the worst consequence of a CSD template going up prematurely on a stub page is potentially losing one or two sentences of work if it's deleted before the creator can respond. By and large all you need to do is stick up a template and/or explain yourself with a hangon tag. You aren't required to do that, or to draft pages in advance. They're just potential grief-saving measures that can be useful. Similarly, nobody is required to conjecture ahead about whether an article is undergoing active construction or preparing to languish in its current state indefinitely. - Vianello (Talk) 23:11, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
- Well, no, of course admin status doesn't earn special protection from CSD. At the same time, there's no requirement to prepare an entire article draft in a subpage or sandbox, either. The editor who added the CSD template perhaps should read Wikipedia:Assume good faith before making further assumptions about the validity of content. There's always plenty of time to add CSD templates and/or bring articles to AFD if a page's content is of dubious value. Bumm13 (talk) 23:04, 8 August 2010 (UTC)