User:Balloonman/CSD award criteria

I hate speedy deleters, ok that is not true. While a careless/hasty speedy deleter can do more damage to the project than the worst vandal, speedy deleter's are an absolutely necessary aspect of this project. Without them, we would become bogged down with tons of useless and actually harmful material on the project.

Unfortunately, a few CSD'ers are out there giving the majority of CSD'ers who work hard and take pride in what they do a bad name. To that end, I have decided that I am going to start looking for CSD'ers who take the extra effort to get it right. At first, this is going to be limited to admins only--not because I am an admin or because admins are better than non-admins, but because they are the ones who actually do the deletions and are the ones who can really damage the project through their errors. A non-admin who makes a mistake is just a mistake, an admin making a mistake is an issue. Eventually, I would like to include non-admins as well.

Before giving this award, I will review at least 20 deletions of the given admin. About 70% of those reviews will be from the week in question, while about 30% will be from prior weeks. These deletions will be graded according to my criteria found in the box on the upper right hand of this page. I will particularly pay close attention to the categories I find to be abused the most: G1, G3, A1, and A7.

I will be looking at how much time lapses between the creation of the article and deletion of the article. I don't like to see articles being deleted 1 minute after creation---especially in the case of an A7/A9 violation.

You will be disqualified if:


 * 1) If you delete a page that is deleted in, what I consider, to be a clear violation of the policies and guidelines.
 * 2) If you delete more than 2 pages for clearly the wrong reason.  Eg you delete the page G1, but it wasn't gibberish, but could have been deleted for another reason.
 * 3) You delete more than 4 pages that I deemed to be questionable deletions... EG you delete a page that I think should have been sent to PROD or AFD instead, but was not absolutely wrong.  This is a judgment call on my part.
 * 4) You delete an article after another admin denied a speedy deletion without explaining why.  This type of activity encourages adminshopping.  (With the exception of attack pages and copy vios.)

I will also review your talk page to ensure your civility and responses to people whose pages you delete. I like to see the use of PROD/AFD. In my opinion, with the exception of CopyVio and Attack Pages, two people should review the article to ensure that it is properly deleted. Using PROD/AFD yourself, is also a sign that you aren't just deleting everything you come across. This also means that if a tag is bad, you remove it. Finally, I hope to see indications of training CSD'ers on how to do this the right way! An excellent, albeit slightly out of date, reference is the Field Guide referenced in the box above.