Hi Mike,
I can't give you access to deleted edits, only the community can do that and they are notoriously picky as to who they appoint as admins.
Also it is not a practical task for one person or even a dozen persons. Why don't you start with my suggestion about articles that are now redirects?
WSC
On 3 July 2012 16:05, Mike Dupont jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com wrote:
I am willing to do the work to prepare them, I think that I could find people to help me. please give me access, I will be responsible. mike
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:44 PM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@gmail.com wrote:
Mike do you realise how big a task that would be? We have stats going
back
to December 2004 showing millions of such deletions. We have data going back further, but some of our earliest edits are no longer available.
Providing we screen out the children releasing personal details, the copyvio and the attack pages then I doubt anyone would mind you having
the
genuinely non-notable. But that means that each such deleted article
would
need to be reviewed before giving it to you, and there are millions of them. Worse still only admins can access those deleted edits and though
our
editing community as a whole is broadly stable, the number of active
admins
has sharply declined.
I would suggest that if you want a freely available source of
non-noteable
articles you look at our redirects. In particular look for redirects that aren't just a different spelling of the name, and that have had multiple edits. That should get you the articles on songs that have been
redirected
to the article on a band and of fictional characters that have been redirected to the film they appeared in. You don't need access to
deleted
revisions and generally they will be closer to notability than "garage
band
that will be the next big thing on the Stoke Poges grunge scene once they've recruited a drummer".
WSC
On 3 July 2012 07:34, Mike Dupont jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com
wrote:
So people, I would like to request that all the old non-notable articles be given to me for archiving on speedydeletion, artists, bands, websites, hotels etc, would that be possible? thanks mike
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net
wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, WereSpielChequers wrote:
I'm not inclined to shed a tear for hotel articles, many of which
are I
suspect being created by spammers, but David makes an important
point re
cultural bias from our lack of sources in certain parts of the world.
Wasn't there a probem where Jimbo wrote an article for a restaurant in South Africa and people tried to delete it for this reason?
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