[WikiEN-l] Deletion of unreferenced living person biographies

[Surreptitiousness]

Andrew Turvey wrote:
> Indeed, PROD is good. The two main problems are: 
>
> a) PROD is not allowed for any article that has already been PRODed or AFDed, which means you have to go through the history first - making a 5 second job a 10 second job (an issue if you plan to do 50,000 articles by hand) and pushing you down a different route for 
>   

In theory every article that has been subject to AFD or Prod has a 
template on the talk page, so an awb list comparison might help winnow 
out some articles.  From there, yes, there will be process wonkery 
issues, but maybe some sort of wiki page might work out the best 
practises.  Since prods can be undeleted by any admin without any 
kerfuffle, I can't see the harm in allowing a second bite at prod.  Have 
we discussed amending PROD to allow second bites?  Alternatively, is 
there a way of getting the prod tag onto prodded articles 
automatically?  How about if we had a bot run through and add the 
template to the talk page of prodded articles?  Sort of "This article 
was PRODDED on the 10 September 2009". That way, if the prod is removed 
from the article, we have a way of knowing it was once prodded.  If the 
article is deleted, the talk page goes too so no issues there. If we set 
this up, it would also catch articles which have already been prodded, 
because even though the prod would get removed from the article since 
the article had been prodded before, the template would remain on the 
talk page. The only extra hurdle would be getting admins to restore talk 
oages when they restore deleted articles, something which really should 
be best practise anyway.