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Many thousands of articles are created each day on the English Wikipedia. Of these, a large percentage do not meet our criteria for inclusion, and are deleted through a process called Speedy Deletion. Many of these are personal attacks, gibberish test pages, or other pages that are inherently unsuitable. However, some articles are deleted because of some flaw that might be corrected by the author. An article on a company, for example, might be started without references, thus appearing to be promotional. An article on a band might not mention their top 10 single right away, and so be deleted as an article that does not assert the notability of the subject.
The concern is that a new editor who posts his or her first article may fully intend to continue to improve it over several hours, adding material and building it into a workable stub. But sometimes, the speedy deletion process is too, well, speedy - and that new editor has their work deleted before they realize what is happening.
This proposal, therefore, is an attempt to preserve the function of the Speedy Deletion process while affording the article's author(s) - and other editors - the chance to improve the article before it is deleted.