[WikiEN-l] On deletion notices

Sun Aug 24 23:00:35 UTC 2003

Brion-
> I checked the logs, and the pages in question appear to have been posted
> in Spanish on the English Wikipedia, and were deleted by Jiang with
> reason "not in English" within minutes of their posting.

Useless content by the definition of EnWiki, completely reasonable to  
delete without listing. We should try to keep the article space as clean  
of junk pages as reasonably possible to avoid creating an unprofessional  
impression for readers and random page clickers. It's also less work for  
sysops. I'm very much in favor of click and delete for obviously useless  
content. Curiously enough, it may well be that the additional work of  
adding the deletion notice encourages sysops to click and delete more  
often.

> Putting a notice on the pages that they should be moved to
> es.wikipedia.org and/or translated into English would have taken just a
> few seconds, and may have made a new contributor very pleased and
> interested instead of angered and alienated.

I'm sure he will understand the procedure as soon as it is explained to  
him. If he won't, well, I guess we won't be getting any more "recipies"  
from him.

Regards,

Erik