[WikiEN-l] Improve quality by reviewing all new articles

Mon Dec 19 21:37:04 UTC 2005

On 19/12/05, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> How about making it so that new page patrollers stamp any
> biographical-looking page with an {{unchecked bio}} template? Then that
> becomes another round of article checking that can be done by whoever it
> is that carries out these repetitive tasks.  By making the template
> sufficiently spammy and legalese ("This article has not been fact
> checked and may contain serious inaccuracies and even defamatory
> statements. The Wikimedia foundation explicitly disclaims all
> responsibility...") you could even kill two birds with one stone.

And if we have a {{not a biography}} tag of some sort we can grab a
list of things that don't have {{biography}} and {{unchecked biography}}
and sort!  And then we end up with a useful list of people, too.  Anyone?

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Abi