[Wikimedia-l] speedydeletion.wika.com lauched

[Nathan]

What happens to your system if an article is deleted from Wikipedia, a new
article is posted again under the same name, and then that one is also
deleted?

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > This is where I think things become slightly problematic.  There are, in
> > broad terms, two categories of hoaxes: those which are fundamentally
> > harmless (these typically being of the "did you know that 'gullible'
> isn't
> > in the dictionary" variety), and those which have the potential to be
> > harmful (including, but not limited to, false statements about drugs,
> > crimes, politically explosive issues, etc.).  The speedy deletion system
> > makes no real attempt to distinguish between these (with the exception of
> > blatant attacks on living people, which have their own deletion tag), but
> > retaining the second category in a publicly-viewable (and
> > publicly-searcheable?) form is probably not desirable.
> >
> >
> I am willing to delete articles from the wikia, they are also archived on
> archive.org.
> it would be nice to work out a detailed tagging system to work out what may
> be archived and what not.
> We can remove categories and add them.
>
> But lets look at some of these,
> http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Ipod_5.5_generation this looks like
> someone who is providing infomation in the wrong way, but could be valid.
> http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Trantlers this is funny and would
> like
> to keep it and add a picture of it, maybe to a humor section. this one too
> http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Trantlas
>
> http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Willyfor this is strange , but might
> be some meme or urban legend. I guess unencylopedia.
> http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Like_Dis_Like_Dat same here, this is
> also unencylopedia material.
>
> now this looks like a hoax , and could be deleted, but also unencylopedia
> stuff.
> http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Aman_hadid
>
>
>
>
>
> personally I am interested in non notable articles, my experience with
> dealing with encouraging editors and collection creative commons licensed
> information
> on places that are not very notable like villages in kosovo could be helped
> with these articles.
> if we can find authors who are willing to write about non notable topics,
> maybe we can collect them and categorize them.
> this could be a recruiting mechanism and also provide good basic data and
> maybe new contributors for wikitravel and openstreetmap.
> with a staging system like this speedydeletion wikia you will have a way to
> demote articles to the speedy deletion purgatory where they might redeem
> themselves.
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