On 12/16/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/16/05, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 12/15/05, Chris Owen ronthewarhero@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
- New articles should go somewhere outside the main
namespace until reviewed and passed. They should *not* immediately enter the main namespace.
I never understood the purpose of having a queue. It takes just as much time to delete something from the queue as it does to delete an article. Move the articles with problems (that aren't speedy deletes) *into* the queue(s). Keep the ones that don't have problems right where they are.
Anthony
Yes, it won't necessarily lower the workload, but it would certainly improve the quality of our articles.
Mgm
How? The quality of the articles is exactly equal if someone puts them into a queue and you delete it or someone creates it and you delete it.
The question is whether or not to keep substandard articles. The meat of the proposal is to keep unreferenced, unlinked, and/or unformatted articles out of the article namespace. I agree with that. What I don't agree with is the crappy implementation of it.
Instead of building queues and restricting editing and moving good articles out of the queues, just move the bad articles into the queues. Start [[Wikipedia:Articles without references]], and move new articles without references to a subpage. Start [[Wikipedia:Articles without formatting]], and move new articles without formatting to a subpage. Start [[Wikipedia:Articles without wikilinks]], and move new articles without wikilinks to a subpage. You accomplish all the same things without forcing the good articles to go through a queue.
Anthony