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Mass nomination or indiscriminate nomination is, for the purpose of this essay, when an editor makes large numbers of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (AfD) or Wikipedia:Proposed deletion (PROD) nominations in a short space of time, and it is apparent from the rate at which the nominations are being made, or from the low quality of all or a significant proportion of the nominations, that WP:BEFORE is not being complied with, or that the nominations misunderstand or ignore Wikipedia's content policies and guidelines.
Some editors feel that indiscriminate nomination is potentially a serious problem. Mass nominations by way of the AfD process are likely to waste a lot of editor time. Mass nominations by way of the PROD process could easily go unnoticed, resulting in erroneous deletion of articles that should have been kept, merged or redirected per Wikipedia criteria.
The reasoning in this essay is not applicable to Wikipedia:Speedy deletion (CSD) nominations which are meant to be made quickly.