On 28/12/06, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
The "prod" tag probably saves time in this respect. The only disadvantage with this is that it may cause good but inactive articles to get deleted simply because nobody removes an improperly added prod. That's why a "prod patrol" would be a good idea if there already isn't one.
This is easy and possible; the interested can always do so.
Thankfully, the process of undeleting a PROD is as lightweight as placing a PROD - that is, an admin can Just Undelete. (Presumably an editor would then want to improve the article so people wouldn't want to PROD it again.)
I,m sure that a common vision of "antideletionists" is of this geek with no life sitting around all day pressing the random button looking for deletable articles similar to the image of the antispammer sitting in front of his PC waiting for spam to come in so he can complain about it. (now of days he doesn't have to wait long :(
Anyone who thinks they're an "inclusionist" should do Special:Newpages patrol some time. OH MY GOODNESS THE FIREHOSE OF CRAP!
- d.