Andrew Gray wrote:
On 08/12/05, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
What exactly is an "eternal stub", anyway? I thought by definition a stub was able to be expanded.
An eternal stub is one that is eternally able to be expanded... but no-one ever does.
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A workflow-based idea: how about auto-marking "eternal stubs" (defined by a year of no edits with a stub notice present) with a template warning that they will be deleted on a given date in another year's time if they have still not been edited? The deletion could be done automatically by the software: the process would be stopped automatically, and the timer canceled, by removing the template, and also removing the stub notice would prevent the article from being marked again.
This would have the effect of removing stagnant dross automatically, whilst keeping anything even slightly controversial, since all that would be required would be to make a single edit to keep the stub.
Category pages could be used by the various clean-up crews to make sure that any article-worthy stubs were expanded and the templates removed.
The same "auto-delete after x time if template not removed" principle could also be used for things like license problems on images.
-- Neil