User:Balloonman/CSD Survey

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 misspelled rationale a number of times in the survey ---damn copy/paste. Anyways, I'll fix it later:

While the survey is complete, I may update the results down the road, so feel free to continue to take it. It now becomes a learning tool. As long as the surveys are still available on Survey Monkey, feel free to take them. BUT manually keep track of your answers. Then come back and compare your results with the rest of the communities and see the rationale used by myself and the community.

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).

**Deletion Option**
rationale	Count	Percent
Strong Inclusionist	7	11.3
Weak Inclusionist	19	30.6
Weak Deletionist	24	38.7
Strong Deletionist	12	19.4

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

**Deletion Option**
rationale	Count	Percent
Virtually NEVER: If the article doesn't fit one of the criteria, then it should be prodded or sent to AFD.	28	45.2
On Occasion.	26	41.9
Routinely: That's why they made me an admin, to make that decision.	8	12.9

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. Many of the deleted items were chosen explicitly because, in the eyes of Balloonman, they were deleted incorrectly OR (in rarer occasions) were excellent uses of the criteria.

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 occasion. 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.

**Survey Results**
Survey Question	Original Deletion Criteria	Communities top pick	Balloonman's take	People who took the survey	Agree With Rationale	Disagree with Rationale, but CSD'able	Would use IAR to justify	Disagree with speedy deletion
1.1	G10	G10	G10	98	76.5%	16.3	4.1	3.1
1.2	G1	G10	G10	98	8.2%	80.6	7.1	4.1
1.3*	G1	G3	G3	98	21.4%	73.5	4.1	1.0
1.4	G3	G3	G3	98	69.4%	27.6	3.1	0.0
1.5*	A7	PROD/AFD	PROD/AFD	98	44.9%	5.1	3.1	46.9
1.6*	A7	A7	PROD	98	59.2%	21.4	6.1	13.3
1.7	A7	A7	A7	98	69.4%	5.1	0.0	25.5
1.8*	G1	G3	G3	98	6.1%	52.0	14.3	27.6
1.9	A1	PROD/AFD	PROD/AFD	98	5.1%	13.3	0.0	81.6
1.10	G10	G3	G3	98	45.9%	52.0	1.0	1.0
2.1	G1	G1	G1	70	72.9%	25.7	1.4	0.0
2.2	G1	A7	A7	70	25.7%	68.6	4.3	1.4
2.3	A1	PROD/AFD	PROD/AFD	70	7.1%	2.9	4.3	85.7
2.4*	G1	A7	A1	70	8.6%	65.7	0.0	25.7
2.5*	G1	A1	A7	70	1.4%	95.7	0.0	2.9
2.6*	G1	G2 or A1	G2	70	17.1%	70.0	1.4	11.4
2.7	G1	G12	G12	70	2.9%	95.7	0.0	1.4
2.8*	G3	RfD	RfD	70	14.3%	24.3	0.0	61.4
2.9	G1	G3	G3	70 <