[WikiEN-l] "the experiment" - did it work?

[Anthony DiPierro]

On 6/21/06, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at 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.
>

I suppose it'd be enough to simply provide a list of articles which
sat in that limbo state for X days (or just a list ordered by oldest
first).  In that case I think it's pretty clear you're right - total
trash wouldn't stand a chance, unless it happened to get approved by a
registered editor (which could happen under an AfC type system as
well).