[WikiEN-l] Speedy deletion
Ian Woollard
ian.woollard at gmail.com
Wed Dec 31 18:38:19 UTC 2008
There should also be an automatically expiring {{NOINDEX}} as well;
that would fix the google problem.
On 31/12/2008, WJhonson at aol.com <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> 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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