Travis Mason-Bushman wrote:
On Jan 20, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Jake Nelson wrote:
Deleting one valid article is a significantly bad thing; not deleting ten bad articles is so minor a bad thing as to be almost beneath notice.
I would vehemently disagree, especially when among those ten articles are hoaxes, thinly veiled attack pages, vanispamcruftvertisements and other such content that has the effect of actively making Wikipedia a *worse* and *less authoritative* source of information.
Hoaxes: Slap an {{unverified}} up top, edit the page if you've got evidence it's a hoax to cite that evidence.
Attack pages: #6 for articles on [[WP:CSD]]. Speedy it.
vanispamcruftvertisements: if it meets CSD (Unremarkable people or groups), speedy it. If it doesn't, slap a warning on it for unverified and biased, and edit it to something more neutral. Most of the time, if it's a big blob of advertising-y text, it's copied verbatim from another site, so just put a link to that in External links, ditch the adtext, and put a stub in.
-- Jake Nelson