On 12/28/06, Luna <lunasantin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Don't forget the various cleanup categories --
tags like {{wikify}} and
{{notability}} don't lead to immediate deletion, but will eventually draw
the attention of experienced editors who may decide to nominate a given
article for deletion.
Still, it must take a lot of time to do the research necessary to
determine "deletability". Therefore, with the exception of obvious BS,
you would still have to see something in the article that prompts you
to stop and do such research. The "prod" tag probably saves time in
this respect. The only disadvantage with this is that it may cause
good but inactive articles to get deleted simply because nobody
removes an improperly added prod. That's why a "prod patrol" would be
a good idea if there already isn't one.
And there is always [[Special:Random]], but I try to
stay away from using
that too often.
I,m sure that a common vision of "antideletionists" is of this geek
with no life sitting around all day pressing the random button looking
for deletable articles similar to the image of the antispammer sitting
in front of his PC waiting for spam to come in so he can complain
about it. (now of days he doesn't have to wait long :(