Forum:SH Archive/Delayed deletion for fan topics?

Speedily deleted articles on Wookieepedia seem to fall into three general categories:
 * 1) Nonsense
 * 2) Fanon
 * 3) Non-notable fan topics

Notability of fan projects is the policy page which usually justifies the third type of deleted article. However, I've come across a few articles on fan topics which may have passed some of the notability requirements, but were deleted by another admin before I finished checking its notability.

Would it make sense to make a template on some of these possibly notable articles which would put any editors who come across it on notice that without proof of notability, the article would be deleted within a week? This would be analogous to our Verify template which asks if an article is genuine or a fanonical speedy deletion candidate.

This template would not mean that a clearly non-notable fan topic would not still be speedily deleted, merged with an existing article according to policy, or dealt with via Trash compactor. It would just give us another option intermediate between speedy deletion or a long TC thread with evidence, counter-evidence, and possible sockpuppetry and vote-farming.

(Some of you will note that last night on IRC, I dared a couple of our editors to start a thread calling for the deletion of all fan topics, which I would then vote "no" on. I came up with this proposal first, though.  8) &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 23:07, 20 February 2008 (UTC))