I'm currently deleting entries with no content and no links to them and I found a rather 'interesting' stub.
Title - Millions of worthless entries' Content - What is the Wikipedia
lol
It's gone...
On 7/6/02 2:24 AM, "Karen AKA Kajikit" kaji@labyrinth.net.au wrote:
I'm currently deleting entries with no content and no links to them and I found a rather 'interesting' stub.
Title - Millions of worthless entries' Content - What is the Wikipedia
lol
It's gone...
I hope you added it to Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense (http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/wikipedia%3ABad+jokes+and+other+deleted+nonse nse)
The Cunctator wrote:
On 7/6/02 2:24 AM, "Karen AKA Kajikit" kaji@labyrinth.net.au wrote:
I'm currently deleting entries with no content and no links to them and I found a rather 'interesting' stub.
Title - Millions of worthless entries' Content - What is the Wikipedia
lol
It's gone...
I hope you added it to Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense (http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/wikipedia%3ABad+jokes+and+other+deleted+nonse nse)
Alas it didn't occur to me! Or rather it did, but I couldn't remember what the page name was where that junk went... somebody obviously made it as a joke, but there were a lot more that were deliberate and crude vandalism :(
I was very busy yesterday deleting empty pages and correcting poor disabled redirects and deleting vandalised entries with no other content, history or links... I really fail to see why some people find it funny to take a blank entry and write an obscenity in it. There were at least a dozen of them in the first page of the stub list...
BTW, the 'delete this page' option is very handy in the stub and orphan list... but I really doubt that it belongs in the 'long articles' listing. It's rather dangerous! I doubt that the people who wrote treatises on various things would like to see them casually deleted by a passer-by or a troll...
Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
BTW, the 'delete this page' option is very handy in the stub and orphan list... but I really doubt that it belongs in the 'long articles' listing.
Well, if there were a page listed there with a length of several million bytes, you might well suspect it to be deletable material.
It's rather dangerous! I doubt that the people who wrote treatises on various things would like to see them casually deleted by a passer-by or a troll...
Passers-by and trolls haven't been granted sysop status, so don't have a "delete this page" option.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion VIBBER wrote:
Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
BTW, the 'delete this page' option is very handy in the stub and orphan list... but I really doubt that it belongs in the 'long articles' listing.
Well, if there were a page listed there with a length of several million bytes, you might well suspect it to be deletable material.
It's rather dangerous! I doubt that the people who wrote treatises on various things would like to see them casually deleted by a passer-by or a troll...
Passers-by and trolls haven't been granted sysop status, so don't have a "delete this page" option.
I wasn't sure whether that particular option was available to anyone from those menus or just to sysops. And it's true that if the largest file was incredibly long then you'd want it to go :)
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