On 03/01/2008, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
Oh please. "universities", then. I'm trying to get a feeling for how big of a problem you think this is.
Double digits. Doesn't help that people tend to react badly when you call them a diploma mill.
I also thought of something while waiting for your response. If maintenance is the problem, wouldn't protection be better than deletion? Instead of deleting 80% of articles on "universities" to reduce the maintenance load, why not protect them on a rotating schedule where 20% are unprotected each day during a five day period?
Because articles are created with maintenance problems and restricting editing on the scale is not acceptable.