The idea is to test the speedy deletion process with articles that shouldn't be speedy deleted.
Links to several of the articles in the process and their fates have been posted to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/Newbie_treatment
But at present it is skewed towards the ones tagged for deletion, there are others as yet unpatrolled that won't be disclosed until they have faced the people who patrol the back end of the unpatrolled queue.
WereSpielChequers
Message: 6 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:38:53 +1100 From: Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How friendly are we to Newbies? Update on the create an article as a newbie challenge To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: b8ceeef70910272238p654f1ebdsfe94b15ad6a6fe8b@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:55 AM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
I want to personally look at the articles and responses in more depth before I comment more, but this has been exceptionally valuable research.
Yes, can you please post the usernames and the articles that were created? If some were speedied, do you have the original text? Obviously we shouldn't be having an "omg rampant speedyism" debate if the articles were actually speedyable...
Steve
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:32 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@googlemail.com wrote:
The idea is to test the speedy deletion process with articles that shouldn't be speedy deleted.
Links to several of the articles in the process and their fates have been posted to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/Newbie_treatment
Hey, that's really cool. I've made my own lame newbie attempt to join the experiment. It's hard to write a convincing newbie stub article that you think deserves to exist, but could be dissed by a patroller acting in a hurry.
Steve
It's not hard to do. Mention the unspectacular factor that claims notability in an obscure position in the middle without any details, add some foolish spam about how good they are & how they will change the world, include an email address to contact for more information, and omit references. For models, check CSD.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:32 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@googlemail.com wrote:
The idea is to test the speedy deletion process with articles that shouldn't be speedy deleted.
Links to several of the articles in the process and their fates have been posted to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/Newbie_treatment
Hey, that's really cool. I've made my own lame newbie attempt to join the experiment. It's hard to write a convincing newbie stub article that you think deserves to exist, but could be dissed by a patroller acting in a hurry.
Steve
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