[Labs-l] speedydeletion.wikia.com

[John]

Hasteur the API does not require a username, I think your perspective is a
little on the DICKish side. enwiki actually has a fairly high standard for
notability in some areas coping those articles that may not meet enwiki
standards is one of the key reasons wikia exists. Take a look at any of the
fan wikis. They cover material in a lot of detail for the subject matter.
However enwiki wouldnt allow 90% of it as its too inuniverse /trivial

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Hasteur Wikipedia <
hasteur.wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:

> What's the request path for asking for deletion? I'm going to write a bot
> process that requests deletion of everything over 6 months old. Leaving
> these speedied pseudo-articles around only leaves the doorway wide open to
> have enterprising individuals use it as a base of a new article attempt.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Nov 3, 2014, at 7:45 AM, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org>
> wrote:
> >> , to thread carefully: the enwiki speedy
> >> deletion rules are there for a reason; and much of what ends up being
> >> deleted are copyright violation, libel, and sometimes worse - and I'm
> >> pretty sure that his bot effectively republishes it from a legal point
> >> of view.
> >
> >
> > I have been running this for a while now, i delete all articles upon
> > request. I get about 1 a week. There has not been any major problem.
> >
> > Really i am interested only in the non notable articles : Indian
> > actors and Albanian football players.  Things that the new york times
> > does not write about and therefore get deleted.
> >
> > The copyrightvio ones I try and filter out there are tags on the
> > deletion requests.
> >
> > We are up to 300k en articles are just launching the other languages.
> > thanks
> >
> > --
> > James Michael DuPont
> > Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://www.flossk.org
> > Saving Wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion
> http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com
> >
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