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(a)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(a)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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