Guillaume Paumier wrote:
Hello,
To help cleaning the small wikis, people from the Small wikis monitoring
team have thought about asking people from all projects to create a
redirect
from [[Template:Delete]] to the local speedy
deletion template. The major
wikis have already set this redirect, but it would be very useful on
small
projects where sysops don't come very often.
Thus they could check the
linked pages/the related category and deal with the pages containing
nonsense or pages remaining after move vandalism.
Please help spreading this request on your projects and forward this
message
to people I've forgotten (I haven't found
any mailing list for wikiquote,
for example). Thanks a lot.
I'm not entirely sure that this is the best approach to take for
something like this. While I will admit that small wikis do tend to
invite vandalism because there may not be an active administrator
watching the content at all times, having a 'bot or an aggressive
deletionist purging all content in a speedy delete category isn't
necessarily the best thing either. For myself as an administrator on a
couple smallish Wikimedia wikis, I do a review of any candidates that
get marked for speedy deletion and I don't always agree with the
decision. Sometimes I will bring it up for a community discussion
instead (like a VfD or whatever) or try to fix the problems in the page.
That means that you have to have a working knowledge of the target
language of that wiki, and perhaps even a strong feel for the goals and
"traditions" of the Wiki community that is participating.
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The pages aren't going to be deleted by bots. The people of the small wiki
monitoring team (see [[m:SWMT]]), if they see spam or blatant vandalism
flagged by the IRC bots, would tag it with {{delete}}, then an admin of that
project would go through the speedy deletion category and delete it. The
benefit of having a redirect from [[Template:Delete]] is that the people
monitoring the wiki for spam don't have to actually know the language to tag
something (though they could go to [[m:Multilingual speedy deletions]].