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

Mike Dupont jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 26 04:01:45 UTC 2011


On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:56 AM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

I have not gotten emails at all from wikipedia in a while, but the mails
from commons work.
Hmm, it seems that I overlooked the page on my talk, it was there. Silly me.
Anyway, thanks alot for the restore.
mike


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