Ron Ritzman wrote:
On 12/28/06, Luna lunasantin@gmail.com wrote:
Don't forget the various cleanup categories -- tags like {{wikify}} and {{notability}} don't lead to immediate deletion, but will eventually draw the attention of experienced editors who may decide to nominate a given article for deletion.
Still, it must take a lot of time to do the research necessary to determine "deletability". Therefore, with the exception of obvious BS, you would still have to see something in the article that prompts you to stop and do such research. The "prod" tag probably saves time in this respect. The only disadvantage with this is that it may cause good but inactive articles to get deleted simply because nobody removes an improperly added prod. That's why a "prod patrol" would be a good idea if there already isn't one.
And there is always [[Special:Random]], but I try to stay away from using that too often.
I,m sure that a common vision of "antideletionists" is of this geek with no life sitting around all day pressing the random button looking for deletable articles similar to the image of the antispammer sitting in front of his PC waiting for spam to come in so he can complain about it. (now of days he doesn't have to wait long :(
I will write a script that will randomly delete pages (ie. hit [[Special:Random]], make a random choice, and delete the page if true); how much will you pay me for it?