Wikipedia:Newbie treatment at Criteria for speedy deletion/Zscout370

Zscout370's experience

At the suggestion of a few users, I decided to take a shot at this. The impression I wanted to give was someone who might not had English as a first language, so I went to a language I know well, Japanese. I took the list of needed articles I found at the WP:JAPAN and just try my hand. The account I made was called User:Sakurasoldat (Cherry Blossom Soldier (mixture of Japanese and Russian) and made four articles. The first two articles I made, Heita Kawakatsu and Ikuo Kabashima, were of current governors of Japanese prefectures. Both had the lower name not capitalized and always used a singular source for information that was not in English. I also used Japanese terms in the article, like ken, Showa and Heisei and always used the Japanese calendar system. Both of these articles were not touched or tagged by anyone. The last one I did, Masahiro Futahashi received some attention, but not much. However, the third article I did, Daizō Nozawa got the most attention. The first edit, which can be seen here, is a one sentence stub from an archive page of former PM Koizumi (Daijin is another term for Prime Minister). I listed his ministry that he headed and the dates. The second edit, here, it was tagged for CSD. The specific tag, CSD A3, says "no content whatsoever, or consists only of external links, category tags, a "see also" section, a rephrasing of the title, an attempt to correspond with the person or group named by its title, chat-like comments and/or images." There was text, one external link, no category, so this would not have qualified for CSD A3. The user who placed the speedy tag, User:Thewtfchronicles, has been told countless times on his talk page about the use of speedy tags and that many of his speedy requests were rejected. His Wikipedia account is also new; made an account on Nov 7 and received a block two days later. I don't think he is personally new, since he knew about the programs and templates when making his userpage. The next edit was by User:LadyofShalott, who capitalized the names and also declined the speedy tags. She also helped fixed some of the articles until I decided to tell her, using this account, to explain about what I did and that I will take over for the articles created by Sakurasoldat. While my experience is quite interesting, but having 1 out of 4 articles tagged for a speedy by someone who has not even looked at the content, this is disturbing. What also bothers me is that we, at Wikipedia, are supposed to report knowledge about the world. If we have folks on NPP that just speedy tag things that are not in English or might not be about English topics, our systemic bias will just increase. I work on a lot of content about Belarus, Japan and other countries, so we need to shore up our focus and include a lot of content from outside the Anglo speaking world. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 21:18, 10 November 2009 (UTC)