[WikiEN-l] Speedy deleletion patrol

Wed Dec 14 20:35:27 UTC 2005

Jimmy Wales wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>   
>>     "Newpages patrol and RC patrol are unpleasant tasks, and the
>> workload is such that the admirable people who do it may well make
>> mistakes. As such, the emphasis here is not on policy enforcement for
>> the sake of it, but recovering genuinely useful material that shouldn't
>> have been deleted &mdash; to act as a [[catcher]]. Speedy deletion
>> patrollers tend not to query borderline cases."
>>     
>
> Personally I would modify this slightly by even further acknowledging
> that it's _ok_ for people doing newpages patrol (especially) to err in
> the defense of quality, and that resurrecting a few things here and
> there behind them is a small price to pay for avoiding another
> Seigenthaler incident.
>   
If there's a function I could build into my "Tasks" feature to assist
out patrolling heroes, please let me know :-)

MAgnus