On 28/12/06, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
I understand that new articles get close scrutiny but just how do deletable articles that have been around for a while come to the attention to those who regularly nominate articles for deletion? (especially if the article is otherwise well written)
A general way for a new article to come to the attention of those working "in the field" is that a new article tends to mean various links need set up, so the related articles get edited and it becomes obvious that way. Or they may notice a redlink has turned blue; same idea.
(Interestingly, many of the articles we want *least* - very intentionally promotional ones - are the easiest to find this way, as people sometimes go a step too far and try to work in references to it from thousands of pages...)