the uncited article might not, that's always a pure crapshoot, but the copypasta article on Sam Harris would be deleted to a high degree of certainty, copyvio is policed with an iron fist and automated tools yes, it's a highly developed system of metis and so very vulnerable
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Replying to @chaosprime
Even copyvio is not a hard rule for article deletion. Might be interesting to look for patterns in what articles are allowed to exist with copyvio. No, I'm not saying these 600 articles compares to the torrent of all incoming copypasta. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%3AAll_copied_and_pasted_articles_and_sections …
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Replying to @lethargilistic
that's not a list of things "allowed to exist", it's a work queue of things that need to be inspected to determine whether they should exist
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Replying to @chaosprime
Same thing, especially in an environment where people fashion the rules as deterministic and objective.
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Replying to @lethargilistic
interpreting the fact that a bureaucratic process that exists for the sake of diligence in not letting automated tools make ham-fisted false-positive-prone judgments hasn't yet gotten to a flagged article as an endorsement of that article's existence isn't even *good* propaganda
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Replying to @chaosprime
All I'm saying is that someone deleted one of few women to have won a physics Nobel Prize, an obviously notable figure per WP's other guidelines, and the article was given less time to work through its issues than any of the things on that list which has some entries from 2014.
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Replying to @lethargilistic @chaosprime
One way someone can warrant a Wikipedia article is simply by winning a famous award. She did. The admin could have recognized her notability, marked the copyvio/ref issues, & told the new editor to fix it. If the admin's not up for that, why are they patrolling new articles?
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Replying to @lethargilistic
there may be outlier cases i'm not aware of, but i've never personally known "tag and fix" to be used for copyvio that has been determined to be copyvio after inspection; you delete the offending material and notability doesn't enter into it
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Replying to @chaosprime @lethargilistic
so to meet the bar you're positing the admin would have had to write a new article, which is not a reasonable bar
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Replying to @chaosprime
That's not true. The admin certainly could have deleted it for copyvio after marking it and waiting a day, but they chose to delete it immediately and say it was non-notable, the obvious connotations of which lead to the press coverage.
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the press may not be able to understand the difference between saying that an article lacks demonstration of notability and saying that a subject isn't notable, but you can do better
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