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I just saw the current message above the backlog tag at CAT:CSD. It reads: <!-- Remove the comments around the line below this message (Adminbacklog) to add a backlog tag. To remove the backlog tag, put comments tags around it. Usually, the tag is added if there are 100 or more articles (or 200 articles & images combined) in this category. --> When did it become acceptable to have 100 articles or 200 total things in CAT:CSD? Since we now have backlogs more often, that means we should raise the criteria for what is actually a backlog? Is this why we're unnecessarily raising our standards on RfA, because if we don't have as many "backlogs," but still have just as many pages waiting to be processed, then we don't need as many admins? This is appalling. We might as well stop promoting admins and just delete the backlog tag, then we wouldn't have any "backlogs" and nobody would have to do anything! Wouldn't that be nice? Ugh. This is just silly. We need to stop dicking around and start actually being productive. We're here to run an encyclopaedia, not pretend we're doing so and accomplishing absolutely nothing.
I understood backlog to mean a horrible amount of work that cannot be done by a few admins working in tandem in a single go. 100 seems to be a good cut-off. But we should have things deleted before the cat hits that number.
I think backlogs in CSD are caused by one of three things: 1) Too little admins online to work on it. 2) Mass creation of deleteable articles after press attention. 3) Mistagging for speedy when it should be deleted with an alternative procedure.
On 10/6/06, Rory Stolzenberg rory096@gmail.com wrote:
Posted simultaneously at WT:RFA
I just saw the current message above the backlog tag at CAT:CSD. It reads:
<!-- Remove the comments around the line below this message (Adminbacklog) to add a backlog tag. To remove the backlog tag, put comments tags around it. Usually, the tag is added if there are 100 or more articles (or 200 articles & images combined) in this category. -->
When did it become acceptable to have 100 articles or 200 total things in CAT:CSD? Since we now have backlogs more often, that means we should raise the criteria for what is actually a backlog? Is this why we're unnecessarily raising our standards on RfA, because if we don't have as many "backlogs," but still have just as many pages waiting to be processed, then we don't need as many admins? This is appalling. We might as well stop promoting admins and just delete the backlog tag, then we wouldn't have any "backlogs" and nobody would have to do anything! Wouldn't that be nice? Ugh. This is just silly. We need to stop dicking around and start actually being productive. We're here to run an encyclopaedia, not pretend we're doing so and accomplishing absolutely nothing. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:36:25 +0200, "MacGyverMagic/Mgm" macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
I think backlogs in CSD are caused by one of three things:
- Too little admins online to work on it.
- Mass creation of deleteable articles after press attention.
- Mistagging for speedy when it should be deleted with an alternative
procedure.
Or indeed all three :-)
Being based in the UK I often find a backlog at CSD. Some of them are far from unambiguous and require some thought as to whether to untag, AfD, PROD or what. I guess I could simply bounce it back to the tagging editor. Maybe I will next time.
Guy (JzG)
On 10/6/06, Rory Stolzenberg rory096@gmail.com wrote:
Posted simultaneously at WT:RFA
I just saw the current message above the backlog tag at CAT:CSD. It reads:
<!-- Remove the comments around the line below this message (Adminbacklog) to add a backlog tag. To remove the backlog tag, put comments tags around it. Usually, the tag is added if there are 100 or more articles (or 200 articles & images combined) in this category. -->
When did it become acceptable to have 100 articles or 200 total things in CAT:CSD? Since we now have backlogs more often, that means we should raise the criteria for what is actually a backlog? Is this why we're unnecessarily raising our standards on RfA, because if we don't have as many "backlogs," but still have just as many pages waiting to be processed, then we don't need as many admins? This is appalling. We might as well stop promoting admins and just delete the backlog tag, then we wouldn't have any "backlogs" and nobody would have to do anything! Wouldn't that be nice? Ugh. This is just silly. We need to stop dicking around and start actually being productive. We're here to run an encyclopaedia, not pretend we're doing so and accomplishing absolutely nothing.
100 isn't as bad as you would think. A lot of it will be complex cases and misslabled stuff.