On 03/10/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/3/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Ten months is pretty extreme by en.wp hoax
standards - three months is
the usual top of the range before it gets caught by someone, IME.
I've never seen any data that would support that... You know something I don't?
I've certainly done my share of removing year old intentionally bogus
data from enwiki...
Interesting. This is just my gut feeling based on the ones I've run
across and the ones I've seen reported; I haven't pulled together any
numbers.
The fact is that once something has survived initial
review on
watchlists and recent changes, the chances of it being fixed stay
fairly low. (this comment based on the curve of ages of deleted
images, which have a spike around 7-10 days but assume a low and
uniform deletion probability after that)
Hum. Technical study suggestion: Is it possible to identify all
VFD/AFD debates which include the word "hoax", and figure out the
age-at-deletion of all articles correspondingly deleted?
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- Andrew Gray
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