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
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