easy enough semi randomly when i sit down to do some editing my starting point is always one of places monitoring new page creation new page patrol monitoring recent changes or existing items on my watch list items accumulated from the above any article i tag for deletion was either originated from or above or was linked to in one of the above generally i don't discriminate if i see very similar articles worthy of deletion or at least a deletion discussion afd all will be up for a nomination i qualify that with generally because i don't always have the time energy desire etc to do all that work in that case i'll add the others to a to do list or my watch list however if or of those articles are better off e g topics that are clearly notable but no one's taken the time to dig up sources or the article already has better sources i'll use the appropriate cleanup tag ones that indicate the article needs additional sources it always comes down to the quality of the sources a single mention in a nationally published news source e g ny times carries a lot more weight than scattered blog postings or trivial mentions cheers talk