[WikiEN-l] Automated VFDing was Re: Banality threshold

[John Lee]

On 10/1/07, SPUI <drspui at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Charlotte Webb wrote:
> > On 10/1/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Bot assisted afds are way overdue--not all of us can use the various
> >> existing programs. It should be built into WP,.
> >
> > The devs would likely find that suggestion amusing.
> >
> > The overall significance of the English Wikipedia's "AFD" process is
> > probably lower than you think. Our goal is to build a better
> > encyclopedia. The programmers' goal is to build better general-purpose
> > software for web sites.
>
> Commons manages to have a "nominate for deletion" link in the sidebar,
> even when logged out. Is this all done locally?


Probably. I imagine there's not much of a limit on what internal links you
can place in the sidebar. You can also mess around with the Javascript files
to mildly alter the interface; I wrote my own script to semi-automate my
closing of AfDs (not that I close AfDs anymore).

Johnleemk