[WikiEN-l] Re: Article deletion (proposed 1 month hiatus)

Wed Sep 14 15:47:41 UTC 2005

On 9/14/05, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/14/05, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > geni wrote:
> > >>...And WP:CP could still take use of the admin deletion features...
> > >not if you are aiming for PWD.
> > >
> > He just said that he's not, at least when it comes to dealing with
> > copyright problems. You're the only one I've seen in this thread who's
> > suggesting that PWD would be used that way. Why can't VfD and CP use
> > different ways of deleting pages?
>
> Because accuseing something of being a copyvio will become a lot more
> common rather than being a tectic of last resort.

We don't just delete copyvios because they're accused of it. We tend
to delete them when they're properly accused of it, tagged (with a
link of where it's from), rot on [[WP:CP]] for a month or so, and if
it's really a copyvio (or just nobody figures out it isn't..), it's
deleted. With PWD being used for regular deletions, theoretically we
could have more admins to work on [[WP:CP]].

As for the delete warring, there's no reason an admin couldn't come
around, protect the page, and use {{deletedpage}}, like we already do
when people try to repeatedly re-create deleted materials, or protect
it on an undeleted version, like we already do when people vandalize
articles heavily.