Gregory Maxwell wrote:
There are a tone of species pages without any images... there are also a lot of locality (cities, etc) pages which appear to be pre-created and still without images.
If it were possibly to just mindlessly delete these pages (some 900 or so in total), I would set my bot on them and they'd be gone with the hour. ... but with our current practices, it's not possible to do so.
You have my blessing to set the dogs^Wbot on them. :-) It seems like a reasonable garbage collection activity; don't want to send readers from WPs to a commons page that is empty because the images had to be deleted, for instance. It's also easy to tell people the rules on the page creation screen - no media, page will go away.
So I must check them by hand. Yuck.
Maybe a seven-day countdown if there's nontrivial history - not unknown for a gallery to be vandalized.
In any case, I'm not so sure that it's "park text which is reject" but more that people end up on commons accidently by following links and then start writing here. We don't see anywhere near so much of this in other namespace. Perhaps we could limit anon page creation to talk pages? That too would help, thoughts?
Unless I'm missing something in my quick little scan, it looks like under 20 bogus page creations / day? That doesn't seem like a killer workload. I've only ever not looked at these because it takes two whole clicks to get to the list. :-)
Stan