Go do [[Special:Newpages]] patrol some time. (Sunday
afternoon and
evening US time are "good" for this.) MY GOD, THE AVALANCHES OF CRAP!
I can fully believe we have ~2000 shoot-on-sight new page creations a
day.
I have been looking at this for a while now, something that is clear is that
virtually all (as in ~95%) of the deleted articles (especially speedies) are
from anonymous users, and a lot of which aren't tests, but plain old
vandalism. I really think we need some kind of "votes for creation" or
"approved creation" or something, maybe not soon as there are still vast
quantities of topics we don't cover (see [[Wikipedia:Wikiproject Missing
encyclopedic articles]] for ~150,000 examples), but maybe a in year or so
from now I dont think we will have much choice.
Martin
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Gerard" <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] More fodder for your editcountitis
Charles Matthews wrote:
A striking number, i.e. 2000 per day. More than
the amount of honest page
creation. AfD is only around 5% of that. Presumably there is something
behind the four-figure numbers some admins clocked up. My 20 or so seems
strangely inadequate if not.
- d.
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