2009/10/12 John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com
I do not understand why de.WS does not want to mark empty pages as 'Without text'; that sounds like a different issue, and one which would distort statistics. Perhaps a de.WS contributor could explain the reason in a new thread; maybe we can learn from de.WS, or agree to disagree.
Marking empty pages as "fertig" (=done) is/was simply a convenient way to announce that the pages in question don't need further work. De.ws has handled empty pages like this for a long time, way before the introduction of PR2. It's not a ploy to inflate statistics. I don't think this thought ever occurred to any of us and it would be kind of useless too. The number of empty pages isn't that high.
Personally, I don't mind a new category for empty pages. But I don't really like naming it "without text". Often there is text, it's just text we don't need. Handwritten notes from previous owners, library stamps, ads etc.
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