[WikiEN-l] Next experiment: switch off AFD for a month. (was Guardian in defense of Wikipedia)

Wed Dec 14 00:36:40 UTC 2005

On 12/14/05, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Justin Cormack wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 13:24 +0000, Tony Sidaway wrote:
>
> >>No need to userfy.  Just add an "unreferenced" tag.  This has the
> >>advantage of permitting casual visitors to find and improve the
> >>article.
>
> > Thats much better.
> > When do we start?
>
>
> Whenever you hit "Random page" and get an article with no references and
> no external links that isn't a stub. That's how I do it! Get in the
> habit until people get the idea about these things.
>
> Heck, it strikes me as eminently bot-assistable - no external links, no
> word "References" or "Sources", no stub message, flag it for the
> operator to press the button on.
>

And the first editor, and the last three editors, get a message on
their talk pages?  I'd go with that.