Philip Sandifer wrote:
One thing we should look at once new article creation by anons and new accounts gets re-activated is how many days, on average, it takes a new user to create a new article. This gives a useful sense of how much we need to weight our advice one way or the other.
Of course, I also tend to think that deletion is not the first choice for a new unsourced article - one should ask the creator for a source first.
This may be partly a tool-induced behavior issue. I don't really patrol new pages, but when I'm patrolling recent changes, I have this big feeling that if I don't catch and fix a bit of vandalism right now, it'll just get lost in the gigabytes of content we have.
I don't see how to do it with the current tools, but some way of knowing to what extent a new article has been reviewed could help that feeling. Especially with new pages, I'd much rather review them three days later, and then only if somebody else hasn't.
William