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

[George Herbert]

On 10/1/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> One admittedly clumsy way to handle this is to make a separate user
> subpage with links to the articles you want to track, preferably using
> the [[:article]] code with the colon so the backlink is not made, and
> to check it regularly for links newly going red.
>
> On 10/1/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It doesn't.  It really isn't a bug, a watchlist is supposed to show edits
> > made to pages, not log entries.  However, I can see why you wish this
> > feature would be added to the watchlist, but it's not a bug. :-)
> >
> > On 10/1/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 10/1/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > why would it be a bad idea? Because people would delete too much? Or
> > > > that they would not use the simper process of PROD as a  first resort?
> > > > I;m much more concerned of their using Speedy as a all-purpose resort.
> > > >
> > > > On 10/1/07, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > On 10/1/07, SPUI <drspui at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Commons manages to have a "nominate for deletion" link in the
> > > sidebar,
> > > > > > even when logged out. Is this all done locally?
> > > > >
> > > > > That goes to nfd_nomForDel() which is defined at
> > > > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Quick-delete.js and
> > > > > included in common.js on Commons.
> > > > >
> > > > > We could *easily* make something exactly like this (to "AFD this
> > > > > article") available to everybody on en.wikipedia but I really think it
> > > > > would be a bad idea.
> > >
> > > Out of curiosity... (my test MW wiki is off right now or I'd try this...)
> > >
> > > If someone deletes an article on your watchlist, the deletion event
> > > does not show up on the watchlist, correct?
> > >
> > > I'm inclined to think that this is a bug...

Yes, I can see several ways around it.  That's the one that doesn't
take any programming on my part to implement, though I would probably
want to script up something to scrape my watchlist and auto-create the
separate pages [[:page]] list.

I think I'll call putting the deletes in the main watchlist a feature
request for the main code, though...


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com