[WikiEN-l] Pakistani politicians and systemic bias

[John Lee]

On Nov 8, 2007 1:21 PM, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:07:39 -0500, "John Lee" <johnleemk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Few things piss me off more than admins who delete on sight
> >without even Googling the article title or looking in the history. We
> stand
> >to lose nothing by waiting a few minutes to delete, and who knows - we
> may
> >even discover the article is worth having, or a way to improve the
> article
> >as it stands.
>
> OK, so let's assume that you want people to spend one minute
> checking each article before deleting it.
>
> That's roughly 100 man-hours of work per day, 12.5 full-time
> equivalent posts.  I don't think we have a dozen admins active on
> clearing the speedy deletion category on any one day.
>
> It's a great aim in principle, but I don't think it's going to work
> until we can get the rate of creation down to rather more manageable
> levels.


Well, you're assuming that the number of admins working on clearing the
speedy deletion cat would stay constant.

Johnleemk