[WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

[Emily Monroe]

> We're historically prone to having people (especially at CSD) assume  
> that an earlier deletion is itself a strong black mark - if an  
> article was deleted earlier, there must have been a good reason for  
> it, they figure.

If, on NPP, I find that an article has been recreated, it's usually  
either a newbie or a troll (usually an incredibly persistent newbie)  
copy and pasting *the exact same article* and hitting publish. It's  
usually a speedily-deleted article. Just a possible explanation for  
that assumption.

Emily
On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Andrew Gray wrote:

> 2010/1/21 The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com>:
>> Just restored a former prime minister.
>
> I am carefully staying out of this on all sides (hey, I've got a
> weekend off, I'm looking forward to some peace), but this flags up one
> issue I'd really like to see brought up in these discussions:
>
> * an emphasis that these are "procedural" deletions, and not in any
> way reflective of the merits of the topic of the article.
>
> A high proportion of these unsourced-BLPs are going to be on the sorts
> of topics that no-one will particularly cry to see deleted; drive-by
> puff pieces and contentless stubs. However, a lot more will simply be
> "bad articles on good topics"; significant figures, whose notability
> even the most exclusionist would agree on, but who we have not yet
> managed to write a halfway decent article on. (I could name a few,
> easily!)
>
> We're historically prone to having people (especially at CSD) assume
> that an earlier deletion is itself a strong black mark - if an article
> was deleted earlier, there must have been a good reason for it, they
> figure. Whatever comes out of this, it would be good to see something
> firmly stating that these articles were deleted because they were
> textually bad, not conceptually bad, and people are encouraged to
> recreate them as better versions.
>
> (and now, back to planning my trip)
>
> -- 
> - Andrew Gray
>  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>
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