Stan Shebs wrote:
If you really want to keep the vandals and pranksters from getting through, you either need more volunteers on patrol (Shinseki says 300,000 at least :-) ), or use them more efficiently, or cut down on the inflow somehow.
I think a few more levels of catchers will do the job fine.
e.g. [[Wikipedia:Speedy deletion patrol]] appears to be a workable idea - rather than hassle the Newpages patrollers to be perfect, we just let some admins check the deletion logs and restore articles clearly deleted in error - which will be a much smaller subset. Both the deleters and the restorers are admins, and if you pass RFA you can be assumed not to have completely whacked-out judgement, so the people doing each function can assume basic sanity on the part of the others, and the deletions and restorations can proceed with assumption of good faith and without a zillion layers of red tape. Which is ideal, really.
e.g. the mooted biography patrol - presumably checking the surviving new articles for anything resembling a person's name.
e.g. whatever else.
This should help the screening in manageable doses without setting up a structure or bureaucracy that will be a pain in the backside or cause rancor.
- d.