On 6/22/06, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
Until an article is approved, it can be deleted by *any* registered user, there's no need to bother an admin to delete it. Additionally, if the article is not approved within X days, it is automatically deleted.
All good, IMO, except for the assumption of bad faith right at the end there. I don't see why the default has to be "delete". At that point the article's been hanging around for X days with a bomb strapped to its chest and not a single editor has seen fit to pull the trigger on it, suggesting that it probably isn't total trash. It may simply be a little questionable, which is something Wikipedia can work with.
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If we adopted such a system, it should work so that a user can nominate an
article and an admin can make a decision according to our policy on deletion. There should also be consideration of the categories of article that would be liable for speedy deletion and those that would go through a lengthier process such as Articles for deletion.
As Bryan Derksen argues, we should look at which articles we should work on and which have no potential at all.
Regards
*Keith Old*