User:Sjb72/CSD Exercises

Speedy Deletion Exercises

There are several excellent exercises out there on how to deal with speedy deletion. Here are some more, and I'll leave it to you to judge how good they are! But good or bad, these are designed to get you thinking about the speedy deletion process

The pages

Each of the following pages contains a deletion tag, the article content, plus a section marked CSD Notes. This section will describe the page history, the primary author, or any other information that may or may not be relevant to your final decision.

1. User:StephenBuxton/CSD Exercises/A tory liar
2. User:StephenBuxton/CSD Exercises/Deben High School
3. User:StephenBuxton/CSD Exercises/Malcom Hardee
4. User:StephenBuxton/CSD Exercises/New article
5. User:StephenBuxton/CSD Exercises/Wizzy Wig the Clown
6. User:StephenBuxton/CSD Exercises/Athur the Great
7. User:StephenBuxton/CSD Exercises/Sudar Barash

How to answer

All the examples have been tagged for speedy deletion in some way or another (using <nowiki> tags to avoid having the pages deleted for real!). You are the administrator who is assessing each of these for deletion. Please can you do the following:

1. Assess whether or not the tag is correct. If not, what tag (if any) should have been used.
2. If the article is to be deleted, what reason for deletion would you give in the deletion summary?
3. If the article is not to be deleted, what should happen to the article instead?
4. Explain any other follow-up action(s) that would be appropriate.

Please don't amend the text, or post your answers on the page (or associated talk page). If I have requested you answer these (perhaps for RfA or if I'm acting as mentor), I will have asked you to place them in a certain area. If you have stumbled across this and fancy having a go, feel free to do so! I would suggest creating a userfied answer area of your own, and post a link on my talk page. I'll happily come and check out your answers.

The answers

The pages have been written so that there may be more than one possible method of dealing with them. The way I deal with these may not be exactly the same as how other administrators would deal with them, even though the speedy deletion criteria is very strict. The reason is that criteria can be open to interpretation, and one person's idea of "credible assertion" might be different to another's (in the case of WP:A7, for example).

So with that in mind, it is important to explain your reasoning, citing policy/guidelines where appropriate to back up your suggested actions. This is especially important if you are answering for an RFA optional question, as others may be judging you on your answers. Remember, some policies over-ride the rules for speedy deletion, in which case you should make that clear in your answers

Disclaimer

All usernames listed in the exercises are alternative accounts created by me (User:StephenBuxton) to prevent problems should someone create a matching account. These alternative accounts will not be used for editing Wikipedia articles; they may be used for editing my other alternative accounts as appropriate for the exercises. All articles were created by me, except for exercise 7, which was based on a CSD nominated article created by User:Pacificengineering.