First and foremost, I'd like to express that I find this idea a good one and I had fun participating in it. It's refreshing to be a newbie for a few days, simply to see what happens. In my newbie persona (Azerajion - talk page) I created four BLPs. Each of them contained:
Article | State it was created in | Fate | Welcome / Message | Patrolled | Notes |
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Richard Rogler | [1] | Cleaned up by JamesBWatson (talk · contribs) and Polargeo (talk · contribs) | No | Yes | |
Andreas Rebers | [2] | Tagged for A1 by E Wing (talk · contribs). Declined by Skomorokh (talk · contribs) and cleaned up by Skomorokh and R'n'B (talk · contribs) | Yes, Twinkle automated | Yes | |
Wolfgang Stumph | [3] | Tagged for A7 by The-Giant-Andrew (talk · contribs) and deleted by Tedder (talk · contribs) | No | Yes | Tried to appeal to deleting admin in my newbie persona at the admin's talk page. Unfortunately, he only responded once and forgot to respond when I asked why a reliable source and winning multiple awards is not an indication of importance. |
Russ Meneve | [4] | Tagged for A7 by A8UDI (talk · contribs). Declined by Jayron32 (talk · contribs) | Yes, Twinkle automated | Yes |
To summarize, I was glad to see that our admins and users are far less deletion inclined than one might sometimes think and that they were willing to give 3 of those articles a chance. The only negative experience was on the Wolfgang Stumph article. Not only that it was deleted (although failing A7) but it was done so without a notification to the creator (most likely because it was tagged by a newbie and now blocked user) and the deleting admin failed to respond to the creator's questions, which probably would have made them felt ignored and thus bitten. All in all, I think it's safe to say that I expected worse things to happen (and just maybe rising standards in admin promotion when it comes to speedy deletion have lead to more carefulness in this area). I'm now off to get those articles to DYK Regards SoWhy 08:16, 3 November 2009 (UTC)