See my proposal at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Votes_for_deletion , the one headed "Sending rejected articles to Wikinerds' JnanaBase, round 2."

My proposal is to put a short link in the VfD banner, something like "Alternate outlets for rejected articles," which links to a page, specifically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Alternate_outlets

This page currently describes JnanaBase and how to submit material to it. My assumption is that we could add other interested outlets, e.g. McFly.

NSK, please take a look at the language on this page... and edit it if it is not to your liking.

Reaction to earlier discussion is that people don't seem to have a problem with adding a short link to the VfD banner, but there are a lot of complicated quasi-legal and licensing issues that are involved in anything that involves Wikipedia itself sending material to any other entity.

So my idea is that Wikipedia merely puts a pointer to JnanaBase in a location where contributors of deleted articles are likely to see it, and whatever happens after that is entirely between people who have seen the link and JnanaBase.

Copyvios get a different banner from VfD, in which this link would not appear.

Obviously if Wikipedia publicizes JnanaBase we cannot control who goes to the site or what they contribute. But the positioning of the link would tend to encourage contributions of material nominated for deletion. (This is, of course, not the same as material that is actually deleted).

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