On 03/05/06, Jesse W jessw@netwood.net wrote:
appears on your watchlist?
As of now: 482 items with 78 changes in the last 3 days. Do I check all the contributions that include an edit summary like "{subs:afd}", "nomiating for deletion", or something like that? Yes, and I don't think that's too much to ask. If you have so much on your watchlist that you can't do that - take some things off your watchlist.
But a large number of articles put on AFD are done so without a clear edit summary. (I try to remember to use "DELETE", which is eye-catching, but I often forget). Even if this is done, if someone reads the discussion, looks at the article, and helpfully copyedits it ten minutes later... the watchlist is useless.
I use my watchlist regularly. I've still had situations where I look on AFD and think "hey, didn't I just rewrite that article last week"? It's a good-sounding theory, but it falls apart in contact with normal use.
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