Jimmy Wales wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
"Newpages patrol and RC patrol are unpleasant tasks, and theworkload is such that the admirable people who do it may well make mistakes. As such, the emphasis here is not on policy enforcement for the sake of it, but recovering genuinely useful material that shouldn't have been deleted — to act as a [[catcher]]. Speedy deletion patrollers tend not to query borderline cases."
Personally I would modify this slightly by even further acknowledging that it's _ok_ for people doing newpages patrol (especially) to err in the defense of quality, and that resurrecting a few things here and there behind them is a small price to pay for avoiding another Seigenthaler incident.
If there's a function I could build into my "Tasks" feature to assist out patrolling heroes, please let me know :-)
MAgnus