Speedy deletion criteria officially expanded
A poll on expansion of the speedy deletion process ended with criteria expanded slightly, and the new criteria went into effect last Monday with the approval of Jimbo Wales.
The massive poll on Wikipedia:Proposal to expand WP:CSD ended last week with three of the eleven proposals passing. Over 200 Wikipedia editors participated in the poll.
Proposal I, which will allow administrators to speedily delete any article with no content other than a category, template, external link, see also section, or book reference, passed with 84% of the vote. Proposal VI, which allows admins to speedily delete mistakenly created articles (if the original editor requests it and nobody else has edited the article), passed with 88% of the vote.
The most widely supported proposal, Proposal X, allows speedy deletion of articles which consists only of someone attempting to correspond with the subject of the article. It passed with 95% of the vote.