[WikiEN-l] "the experiment" - did it work?

Wed Jun 21 23:49:38 UTC 2006

On 6/22/06, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> Anthony DiPierro wrote:
> > Until an article is approved, it can be deleted by *any* registered
> > user, there's no need to bother an admin to delete it.  Additionally,
> > if the article is not approved within X days, it is automatically
> > deleted.
>
> All good, IMO, except for the assumption of bad faith right at the end
> there. I don't see why the default has to be "delete". At that point the
> article's been hanging around for X days with a bomb strapped to its
> chest and not a single editor has seen fit to pull the trigger on it,
> suggesting that it probably isn't total trash. It may simply be a little
> questionable, which is something Wikipedia can work with.
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> If we adopted such a system, it should work so that a user can nominate an
article and an admin can make a decision according to our policy on
deletion. There should also be consideration of the categories of
article that would be liable for speedy deletion and those that would go
through a lengthier process such as Articles for deletion.

As Bryan Derksen argues, we should look at which articles we should work on
and which have no potential at all.

Regards

*Keith Old*