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First hoax in the list, "Fictitious biography about a Belgian painter". It was in place for 13 years, 4 months But the kicker? > Speedy deleted as "G3: Blata
by isostatic 7y ago
First hoax in the list, "Fictitious biography about a Belgian painter".
It was in place for 13 years, 4 months
But the kicker?
> Speedy deleted as "G3: Blatant hoax"
If that's speedy, what's slow!?
- sparky_z 7y agoYou can still have a a "speedy trial" even if you're not arrested until 20 years after you committed the crime.
- vilhelm_s 7y ago"speedy deletion" is a kind of article deletion, where the wikipedia admin can skip the discussion/consensus stage. The speediness refers to the time between when the deletion nomination is submitted and the article is deleted. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_...)
- paulddraper 7y agoYes, wouldn't want to waste any time; who knows how much harm it could have.
- Razengan 7y agoAll the planning charts and deletion orders were on display at Alpha Centauri.
- fs111 7y agoI know the guy that wrote it. We worked at the same company for a while. I feel a bit bad for not calling it out now tbh.