[WikiEN-l] How to clear a backlog

[Guettarda]

On 12/11/06, theProject <wp.theproject at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/11/06, Guettarda <guettarda at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 12/11/06, Ilmari Karonen <nospam at vyznev.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > > a) Advise admins to always perform the merge when closing, if at all
> > > possible.  This could mean just cut-and-pasting the text and slapping
> a
> > > cleanup tag on it, but at least the merge itself would get done.
> >
> >
> > No, this is unacceptable - a text dump, even from another article, is
> > horrible, borderline vandalism.  Have you ever seen the results of
> > something
> > like that?  Article quality is more important than making AfD closings
> > easy
> > and mechanical.  If anything, the onus should be on the people voting
> > merge... the closing admin could drop a note to the people voting
> "merge"
> > (after all, these people should know enough about the topic to carry out
> > the
> > merge).
> >
> > b) Suggest that busy admins just redirect the page to be merged and put
> > > a notice on the talk page of the target page with a link to the text
> to
> > > be merged.  We could even make a special template for this.  This will
> > > only take care of one half of "merge and redirect", but half done is
> > > better than nothing at all.
> > >
> > > c) Make a new "afdmerge" template (or templates), for use in cases
> where
> > > the decision to merge has already been reached on AfD.  This template
> > > would state that consensus has already been reached and would strongly
> > > recommend that anyone having the time to carry out the merge go ahead
> > > and do it.
> > >
> > > None of these are, of course, mutually exclusive.  If anyone can
> suggest
> > > other possible approaches, please do.
> > >
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> > > Ilmari Karonen
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> Well, I disagree that it's borderline vandalism, because it's at least
> half
> of a merge, even if merging does bring an article's quality down before
> bringing it back up.


That's silly - blanking a page is half of a total re-write, but
justblanking a page is still seen as vandalism (even if the person
uses an edit
summary saying "blanking to make way for a re-write" and then doesn't
re-write the page)

I see there are a lot of ideas for how to prevent future backlogs, but I was
> also hoping to encourage discussion as to how we can deal with the
> backlogs
> (all of the large ones) we've got right now.
>
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