[Foundation-l] Promotional material about the user's activities outside Wikipedia, nothing useful to Wikipedia

[John Vandenberg]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/25/2011 11:53 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
>> I have restored a subset of these pages.  Some of them would be better
>> on the Meta or outreach wikis.
>
> Thanks, John!
>
> Mike, you should ask for help before conclusion of deletion. Discussion
> about deletion was small and was a typical example of systemic trolling
> because of lack of interest.
>
> (BTW, related to that, may folk from en.wp raise requirements for so
> called "consensus" related to page deletion? Something like "at least
> five users with at least 500 edits" would save many useful material from
> systemic trolling.)

Do any other wikis have similar thresholds?

> If no one notified you about deletion process, you should complain on
> wiki.

Mike was given an automated notification about one page, which he
probably didnt care about, but the deletion covered lots of other
pages as well.

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John