On 18 Oct 2005, at 02:51, geni wrote:
On 10/18/05, Justin Cormack justin@specialbusservice.com wrote:
I hadnt been taking much notice of this thread, but in my irregular series on Victorian philanthropists I got around to [[Sydney Waterlow]] and happened to notice some deleted edits. Someone had only a few months ago linked a URL of a biography to an article that was redlinked from a few places (and possibly in requested encyclopaedic articles for all I know, given the date not unlikely to be in Brittanica 1911 though I havent checked). This was speedied shortly after. I think this wasnt a good decision really - whoever speedied it could have written a stub in a few minutes from the information in the link. The link stuck in by an anon IP seems more like a cry for help ("please write about this") than a speedy candidate.
Justinc
It was probably speedied by someone on RC patrol. Lots of articles turn up that are nothing more than a link. These isn't really time to do anything about them (and it isn't as if cleanup is crying out for more articles).~~~~
Fair enough - my though is if we get 10 times as many people on patrol can we use it as a requested articles feed? It might need a process, or even just a feed into requested articles (where the URL could have been dumped). I admit I have stopped looking at new articles now though.
Justinc