Tony Sidaway wrote:
Actually I don't think it can be fixed. I am convinced that it could be safely wound down provided a procedure for dealing with hoax/unverifiable articles was instituted along the same lines as Wikipedia:Copyright_Problems.
Or we could leave it as it is. It's only processing an average of 112 articles a day (based on a recent 3-month survey) and only around 70-80% of those are deleted. This is piddling compared to our site growth figures and utterly dwarfed by the immensity of the existing database. So it's no more effective at whatever it is people think it's for than if we had a script to randomly delete 100 smallish articles with low edit counts every day
And we come full circle... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RANDEL