Just as some data, drawing no conclusions:
I've just now looked at 25 consecutive items up for speedy. There were:
15 new articles that were valid speedies, and 2 new ones that were not
valid speedies (one probably suitable for deletion via prod or afd),
5 older articles that were valid speedies, and 3 that were not, all
probably suitable for deletion via prod or afd).
On 11/16/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/16/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG
<guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:42:38 -0800, Delirium
<delirium(a)hackish.org>
wrote:
One approach that would cut out some of the worst
instances would be to
restrict speedy deletion to only: 1) copyright violations; or 2) new
articles from the past week. If an article that isn't a copyright
violation has been on Wikipedia for two years, surely it can wait
another week as a PROD before being deleted, and the "keep up with the
torrent of new articles" justification doesn't apply.
That makes sense. It would be helpful to have the tail of the edit
history in the delete dialog, but that's probably too much like hard
work.
Guy (JzG)
--
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JzG
_______________________________________________
WikiEN-l mailing list
WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
--
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
--
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.