[WikiEN-l] An idea for deletions

[Luna]

On 2/14/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a worrying feeling that would be spammed by nonsense requests
> too often to be useful...


That would be a problem; I'm not sure how big of one. Unblock-en-l gets
plenty of spam, but posts by non-subscribed emails require approval before
getting sent out, so even despite the 10:1 noise-to-signal ratio, the list
still functions. From what I hear, the other WMF mailing lists are a bit
similar in that regard.

Unless you were thinking more of "Please delete [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]]
because it sux lol," (or slightly less obvious nonsense), which might still
be a problem. CSD is hard to keep on top of. Prod seems to get around
100-200 pages daily, AfD is similar. Merging all that onto a mailing list
would be very, very busy. Unless, of course, this mailing list is only for
the people who *don't* know our deletion process, which would reduce the
load on the list a bit. At that point, it might be worth exploring.

Or perhaps we could have a more obvious "report a problem with this
article," link. I suppose that would have to go to OTRS, given the wide
variety and occassional sensitive nature of the emails such a link would
surely generate.

Just rambling,
-Luna