[WikiEN-l] How do "deletionists" find articles to delete?

Thu Dec 28 17:04:35 UTC 2006

On 28/12/06, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

This is easy and possible; the interested can always do so.

Thankfully, the process of undeleting a PROD is as lightweight as
placing a PROD - that is, an admin can Just Undelete. (Presumably an
editor would then want to improve the article so people wouldn't want
to PROD it again.)

> 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 :(

Anyone who thinks they're an "inclusionist" should do Special:Newpages
patrol some time. OH MY GOODNESS THE FIREHOSE OF CRAP!

- d.