[WikiEN-l] Why AFD works Great

[Justin Cormack]

On 18 Oct 2005, at 02:51, geni wrote:

> On 10/18/05, Justin Cormack <justin at specialbusservice.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I hadnt been taking much notice of this thread, but in my irregular
>> series
>> on Victorian philanthropists I got around to [[Sydney Waterlow]] and
>> happened to notice some deleted edits. Someone had only a few  
>> months ago
>> linked a URL of a biography to an article that was redlinked from  
>> a few
>> places (and possibly in requested encyclopaedic articles for all I  
>> know,
>> given the date not unlikely to be in Brittanica 1911 though I havent
>> checked). This was speedied shortly after. I think this wasnt a good
>> decision really - whoever speedied it could have written a stub in  
>> a few
>> minutes from the information in the link. The link stuck in by an
>> anon IP
>> seems more like a cry for help ("please write about this") than a  
>> speedy
>> candidate.
>>
>> Justinc
>>
>
> It was probably speedied by someone on RC patrol. Lots of articles
> turn up that are nothing more than a link. These isn't really time to
> do anything about them (and it isn't as if cleanup  is crying out for
> more articles).~~~~

Fair enough - my though is if we get 10 times as many people on patrol
can we use it as a requested articles feed? It might need a process,
or even just a feed into requested articles (where the URL could have
been dumped). I admit I have stopped looking at new articles now though.

Justinc