[WikiEN-l] Speedy deletion

[Wilhelm Schnotz]

Right but nobody will know to check back on the article. Generally
articles are monitored by watching the rc feeds, at least that is what
I used to do.

On 12/31/08, WJhonson at aol.com <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 12/30/2008 8:32:58 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> wilhelm at nixeagle.org writes:
>
> Sorry, I  am not getting it. Please explain in more  detail.>>
>
>
> --------------------
> First you must be familiar with the {{uc}}.
> This tag tells a tagger/deleter... STOP  I'm working here !
>
> If, for each new article, we simply automatically tag it {{uc}} with
> today's
> date, then no new article should get tagged for deletion simply because
> it's
> new and under developed.
>
> IF a new article is merely spam, or vandalism of course, you can delete it
> even with a uc tag.
>
> Some editors, like myself, do not develop articles all-at-once and plop
> them
> in, rather we develop them in-project with a bit and piece here and there
> and given several hours, you have a full article, or at least a useful
> stub.
> So new article patrollers just see one sentence, and then five  minutes
> later
> two more sentences, and then 15 minutes later another  paragraph.... they
> are
> likely to want to tag it as too stubby right away.   The uc tag stops that.
>
> But new editors won't know, first day, about this tag .  So making it
> automatic would solve that issue.
>
> Will Johnson
>
>
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