On 11 June 2012 08:40, Mike Dupont jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com wrote:
After rereading your question, it boils down to if the tags are wrong. If the tags are wrong we will have to deal with them on a case by case issue, and I see that we will have to do more finer tagging of articles to be deleted, I hope that this will be the outcome of my effort to see that articles that are properly tagged and deleted according to a fair and transparent set of rules. lets work on this together to make the wikipedia better.
There's a couple of problems here.
One is that speedy deletion tags don't often get stacked - if people see something that fills two criteria, they'll often tag them with just one, and usually prefer the "clearer" criteria, the one with less subjectivity about interpretation. Usually, this is seen with "copyvio + not notable" = only tag for copyvio; but it also manifests itself in the cases Brad mentions - not notable + negatively slanted = usually tagged for notability rather than negativity. This is a problem, because understandably most of the cases you want to *keep* are the "not-notable" ones...
Secondly, some admins will delete abusive material on sight without waiting to tag it (which is skirting around best practice, but widely accepted for unambiguously "bad" content), and some people prefer to use "hand-written" CSD reasons. Both of these may end up with harder-to-interpret deletion logs (they don't contain the codes) - I'm not sure how your system works with these.
What is the current policy now? you have articles in dumps that contain these offending materials i presume if they are not that new. What is the difference between a dump on wikpedia and a dump on archive.org, and a dump on wikia?
The difference is that one is a hard-to-accidentally-stumble-across dump, and one is a publicly readable website ;-)
I do not believe there are active moves to remove material from older dumps. *However*, the damage from problematic material surviving in dumps is relatively low, because most speedily deleted material tends never to make it into a dump.
Let's assume dumps are twice-weekly. If every article tagged for speedy deletion "on creation" lasts for six hours before being removed, then there's approximately a 1/60 chance of it being around to when the dump triggers. By contrast, around 50% of articles marked with PROD just after creation will survive into the dump, even if deleted, and substantially over 50% of articles put through AFD on creation will be dumped even if deleted, because the frequency of relisting means many of them are tagged for two weeks.
As a result, CSD material - which is where the worst content usually is - is much less likely to get dumped than AFD material.
Some dumped abusive material does make it out onto reuse sites, though, and it's an incredible pain to deal with - people find it a year or two later, mirrored on an abandoned ad-farm website, and write us distressed letters about trying to get it removed. We can't do anything about it - these sites are usually completely uncontactable and don't care anyway - and it's quite an unpleasant experience for all concerned.
If you're going to expose these on wikia as well as making archive files, I'd strongly recommend you give a clearly visible contact address to have material removed if needed - it'll save everyone involved lot of stress in future!