[WikiEN-l] You're magically made an admin. What do you do?

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 5/10/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What concerns me is that we might find some FA candidates in there.
> > Can we think of an algorithm? DGG
>
> You could narrow it down by looking at all deleted articles over a
> certain size which don't have "copyvio" or "copyright" in the deletion
> reason. You should be able to narrow it down a fair bit that way - you
> then have to plough through the articles manually. A deleted article
> that might be almost an FAC is quite likely not formatted correctly
> yet, so you won't be able to automatically search for links and refs
> etc.


Since there's articles getting tagged as unreferenced, while they actually
have references, I wouldn't be at all surprised if articles get deleted for
various reasons because the deleter and the nominator failed to do their
research and didn't ask anyone else to help.

Mgm