[WikiEN-l] The sandbox incubator

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
Thu Jul 7 10:33:01 UTC 2005


Bryan Derksen wrote:
> I'm surprised that the Sandbox is "VfD resistant" in the first place - I
> would have thought anything sandbox-related would be deliberately
> ephemeral and of no lasting value, and hence eminently deleteable. The
> template on there even says that Sandbox contents are wiped every 12
> hours, wouldn't this apply to Sandbox subpages too?

Totally.  That's the whole point of a "Sandbox" -- even the name
suggests that a random breeze or rainstorm might blow or wash the entire
thing away.

--Jimbo



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