[WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

[The Cunctator]

Just restored a former prime minister.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:03 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2010/1/21 Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com>:
>
> <snip>
>
> >> silent mass deletions are now an acceptable admin tactic.
> >
> > That bit's not ideal, I'd think they should be listed first. Perhaps a
> > {{BLP-prod}}, where someone has a few days to put the references in.
> > OR THE ARTICLE DIES.
>
> I'm not going to say much in this thread (I'm in the group that's been
> asked to arbitrate this dispute), but I would urge a list be made of
> where discussion is taking place on-wiki about process related to
> this, and for people to help form a workable consensus there.
>
> I would add that one part of the problem is bagging and tagging these
> BLPs when they are created. If someone can demonstrate that BLPs
> currently being created are getting enough attention, that would
> ensure that things are reasonably under control from that end (the
> BLPs that have been unsourced for years are technically a backlog -
> the ones being created now should also be dealt with, otherwise the
> problem grows again). The lessons from the past are that if you turn
> away for even a few months from situations like this, the creation of
> new articles returns you to square one.
>
> Overall, a discussion on whether Wikipedia has the volunteer resources
> to maintain articles of a certain type to a minimum standard, is
> needed. Plus whether technical measures (flagged revisions) will help
> that or not. Another part of the problem is that some of these
> discussions have been had before, and some people are assuming
> everyone knows the stats and figures involved. Pointers to summaries
> are helpful. There is one here:
>
>
> http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080415/the-biographies-of-living-people-problem/
>
> We also have:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:User_essays_on_BLP
>
> Carcharoth
>
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