[WikiEN-l] How do "deletionists" find articles to delete?

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Ron Ritzman wrote:
> On 12/28/06, Luna <lunasantin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Don't forget the various cleanup categories -- tags like {{wikify}} and
>> {{notability}} don't lead to immediate deletion, but will eventually draw
>> the attention of experienced editors who may decide to nominate a given
>> article for deletion.
> 
> Still, it must take a lot of time to do the research necessary to
> determine "deletability". Therefore, with the exception of obvious BS,
> you would still have to see something in the article that prompts you
> to stop and do such research. The "prod" tag probably saves time in
> this respect. The only disadvantage with this is that it may cause
> good but inactive articles to get deleted simply because nobody
> removes an improperly added prod. That's why a "prod patrol" would be
> a good idea if there already isn't one.
> 
>> And there is always [[Special:Random]], but I try to stay away from using
>> that too often.
> 
> I,m sure that a common vision of "antideletionists" is of this geek
> with no life sitting around all day pressing the random button looking
> for deletable articles similar to the image of the antispammer sitting
> in front of his PC waiting for spam to come in so he can complain
> about it. (now of days he doesn't have to wait long :(
> 

I will write a script that will randomly delete pages (ie. hit
[[Special:Random]], make a random choice, and delete the page if true);
how much will you pay me for it?

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