[Commons-l] Killing the main namespace?

[Stan Shebs]

Brianna Laugher wrote:
> Perhaps all we need is more admins deleting namespace crud. I delete
> on sight 99%  of anything that is only text. Even if it's in another
> language. A lot of them look like misplaced articles or promo bios.
>   
Guilty as charged (the not-deleting part, not the promo-bio part). I 
guess I just assumed nobody was creating nonsense pages, silly me. How 
many are we talking about?

Proper galleries have at least one image, and not a whole lot of text in 
any single language.  Seems like you could have a bot detect excessive 
text and mark those for further review, and have a manually-added "yes 
this gallery has a good reason for large amounts of text". Seems like 
you'd want this no matter the namespaces, people are always going to be 
tempted to use commons to park text that has been rejected from other 
projects.

Stan