On Sat, September 30, 2006 19:35, daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
I have just deleted an article, [[Porchesia]]. Any admins are welcome to read the history. It was created in November.
As a comparison, something that got dealt with earlier this year - where there were inbound and outbound links but nobody (ie no regular editor) had taken a look at the article; http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gransha&direction=prev&old...
This became the subject of a media event in Northern Ireland when the local politician discovered that - according to us - he was in the middle of a major terrorist area. In fact it was and remains a very quiet area; the article had basically been created and edited to extremes by local schoolkids, but because it wasn't on anyone's watchlist it didn't get 'caught'.
The issue is, if an article survives the 10-30 minutes it remains on 'new articles' it is likely to stick around unless you happen across it while taking a random-article-walk. How we deal with articles 'getting away from us' like the Gransha one did though I do not know ...
Alison Wheeler