User talk:Literacola/Archive May 2007

Speedy tagging

Hi there; you appear to be tagging a number of articles for speedy deletion with a label of pure vandalism. This is not universally correct. An article about a non-notable person or a non-notable band , for instance, mnay well be suitable for speedy deletion but not under that lable. Would you care to look at WP:CSD to see that the acceptable {{speedy}} labels are?--Anthony.bradbury 19:23, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am not trying to discourage you, and have deleted all of the articles which you have tagged and I have found. But some are writtrn by newbies, and categorising a new editor on his/her first edit as a vandal can be very demoralising. See WP:BITE.--Anthony.bradbury 19:29, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Anthony. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe I only tagged one as pure vandalism. I don't recall the name of it now and I can't find it in my contribs (presumably because it was deleted?) but it was, to me, clearly written to vandalize. Actually I debated over tagging that one vandalism or attack page, but either way, that's the only one I've ever tagged as pure vandalism. The other CSD's I have done were db-bios. Please let me know if I am mistaken or if I am misreading your comments. Literacola 23:12, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi; I thought that I found three, but they are now deleted. It is entirely possible that they were tagged by some other author - certainly I would not dream of arguing with you. I could go back through the deletion log and dig them out, but I have better things to do with the next hour! Sorry if I seemed to bite you - it was not my intention.--Anthony.bradbury 23:19, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, I was just confused. I'm a newbie too so I can't afford to be biting my own. :) Literacola 23:21, 21 April 2007 (UTC)