User:Balloonman/temp

Well, here is the next stage of my CSD reviews. Rather than simply give my take on some CSD's I've decided to get some feedback. Here are some recently nominated articles for deletion and the criteria for deletion. Please review these articles and determine if you:

1) Agree with the criteria stated to speedily deleted the article.

2) Disagree with the criteria stated to speedily delete the article, but believe the article should be deleted under another criteria.

3) Disagree with the criteria stated to speedily delete the article, but the article doesn't technically fit any of the criteria, so this is a case to Ignore All Rules (IAR.)

4) Disagree that the article is a candidate for speedy deletion.

Some of these may be obvious, but please take your time and review each CSD properly. You are required to pick one of those four options, but you can add a short (100 character) comment to clarify your position.

NOTE: Yes, it has already been pointed out to me that I mispelled rationale a number of times in the survey ---damn copy/paste. Anyways, I'll fix it later:


 * CSD Survey 4 of 4
 * CSD Survey 3 of 4
 * CSD Survey 2 of 4
 * CSD Survey 1 of 4

NOTE: There are 40 total questions, 10 on each survey.

Participant Demographics
Most participants identified a leaning towards a deletionistic philosophy (although some debated the concepts of inclusionism/deletionism.)

Most participants believed that routine use of IAR should not be encouraged.

Background
This survey is an extension of several "surveys" that Balloonman conducted on his own---A1*A7*G1*G10. This is not a scientific analysis and the deletions selected below should not be viewed as indicative of all CSD's, but it does highlight several of the problems/issues surrounding CSD.

The examples in the CSD were all deleted by an admin as speedy deletions using the criteria identified in the rationale.

Results
The surveys will reopen and I will update the results on occassion. The results presented on the chart below are as of January 1, 2009. The results on each of the individual summary charts may differ as they were pulled on December 30 and 31, 2008.

Where results differ from those on the individual pages, it should be noted that these results are more recent.

Overview: Agree with Rationale: Of the 38 CSD's only 5 of them had over 50% of the respondants agreeing with the deletion criteria.

Disagree with Rationale, but agree that it is speedy deletable: 13 of the 38 had people who agreed that the article was speedy deletable, but under a different criteria than used.

Disagree with Rationale, but deletable per IAR: Only four articles of 38 had 10% of the respondants stating that the rationale to delete was incorrect, but that it should be deleted per wp:IAR.

Disagree with speedy deletion: 17 of the 38 deletions had at least 45% of the respondants disagreeing that the article was eligible for speedy deletion.