David Gerard wrote:
On 14/07/07, phoebe ayers wrote:
To go towards fixing this, we should make
notifying the original author
about deletions mandatory;
The AFD regulars have consistently held this to be far, far too
onerous. I suspect there's some presumption of bad faith in there as
well, because monitoring for crap does produce a bit of a siege
mentality.
Yeah, having to spend time with such notifications, or investigating the
history of an article detracts from the efficient operation of
deletions. I would take it further than Phoebe to include notices to
all significant contributors to an article. For a silly nomination like
[[Chess strategy]] this would include notices to many established people
who made contributions a long time ago, and have gone on to other things
-- like me who made a few small edits in April and May 2002.
--
I know wikipedia traditionally shuns automation, but this seems like a
perfect candidate for it. Why not just send an automatic message to
everyone who's ever edited the article at all? AfD people won't have
to worry about sending a million notices, etc.
Ben Yates
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