On 5/10/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
What concerns me is that we might find some FA candidates in there. Can we think of an algorithm? DGG
You could narrow it down by looking at all deleted articles over a certain size which don't have "copyvio" or "copyright" in the deletion reason. You should be able to narrow it down a fair bit that way - you then have to plough through the articles manually. A deleted article that might be almost an FAC is quite likely not formatted correctly yet, so you won't be able to automatically search for links and refs etc.
Since there's articles getting tagged as unreferenced, while they actually have references, I wouldn't be at all surprised if articles get deleted for various reasons because the deleter and the nominator failed to do their research and didn't ask anyone else to help.
Mgm