Talk:EqWorld

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Hangon[edit]

Please wait for Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics#EqWorld to discuss this page before deleting it. R.e.b. (talk) 01:30, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm amazed at how fast this article got tagged for deletion, then deleted, then restored. Lately the speedy-deletion crowd has been trying very very hard to makes us all think they're a bunch of idiots. "Mathematics? Never heard of it. Must be something bogus. Delete!" Michael Hardy (talk) 01:37, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To be fair to them, they mostly do a useful job, and if you are deleting several thousand spam articles a day a few mistakes are inevitable. And I wasnt really sure when I created the article if it passed the guidelines for notability. R.e.b. (talk) 01:56, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lately they've been deleting stuff within three minutes. Often a newbie editor saves a first draft and then maybe ten minutes later a second draft. Michael Hardy (talk) 18:37, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What is also amazing is that the page gets speedily deleted in spite of a hangon tag, and only minutes after that tag was placed. I guess in this case the deletion was an honest mistake, though. But what if the editor who saved the first stub version of an article is not sitting on top of it to place a hangon tag immediately when the article gets marked as a kill target, or – as a newbie – needs ten minutes or so to figure out what the message means and what to do about it? --Lambiam 12:45, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That is a systemic problem with our speedy deletion system, with no solution in sight. But to be fair, the hangon tag is only meant to ask the deleting person to look twice, it isn't intended to prevent the article from being deleted. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:53, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]