On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
But instead of increased patrolling and speedy
deletions, this
could be implemented in the Mediawiki software. If a user (logged
in or IP address) tries to create a new page, their recent
contribution history could be checked, and if any of their five
most recently created articles (except redirects) are shorter
than, say, 300 bytes, they would simply be unable to create
another article. This would be a very soft kind of blocking (as
soon as you have improved your existing article, you can start the
next one), each case being completely an affair between the user
and the software, not involving opinions of individual admins.
Sounds like a bad idea. If the community doesn't want these stubs, the
better way to act would be to create an easy method to get these pages
deleted. A system such as you propose would punish people who make
short pages for perfectly good reasons (like disambiguation pages),
and would likely be subverted using lengthenings that make the article
worse rather than better (like subst-ing rather than including
complicated templates).
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André Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com