Talk:Guantanamo captives' uniforms

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A fact from Guantanamo captives' uniforms appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 22 July 2007.
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[edit] Grace period?

User:Finngall added a {{prod}} to this article less than five minutes after it was started. {{cfd}} and {{csd}} both urge those nominating articles for deletion to give contribuitng wikipedians a grace period before they nominate an article for deletion -- because many wikipedians start articles in fits and starts.

Even if the policies and procedures that surround {{prod}} don't suggest that nominators give those who start articles a grace period I urge them to nevertheless grant a grace period.

I would further urge those making nominations to be responsible about the justification they use. Finngall justification was "Non-encyclopedic original research" This is not a clearcut justification, like "patent nonsense". And, IMO, it is just not responsible to level this kind of accusation against a fist draft, five minutes after it was started.

IMO, because this is not a clearcut justification I think it is regrettable that the nominator chose to level accusations rather than initiate a dialog.

I have had conversations with other impatient wikipedians, who couldn't wait out a reasonable grace period before they nominated an article for deletion, speedy deletion, or {{prod}}. Some of them have offered the lame excuse that complying with the policies recommendation to extend a grace period would make their deletion efforts less efficient. IMO, this is an unimaginative excuse. I expect a technical solution to this would be trivial. (1) Figure out a reasonable grace period; (2) then figure out a way to show those who patrol the recent changes, looking for new articles to nominate for deletion. It should be trivial to figure out a way that can show article that are just old enough to have survived whatever we all agreed should be the reasonable grace period.

Cheers! Geo Swan 23:18, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Added information, quotes and context, removed the PROD - I hate PRODs, seriously, as much as I hate AFDs, PRODs are worse. Anyways, some images certainly seem to show scrubs rather than jumpsuits, just curious if that was a change after a certain date, or a misconception/misnomer, or whatever. Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead) 23:21, 18 July 2007 (UTC)