[Wikipedia-l] Page titles to be deleted

[Larry Sanger]

Sounds good to me.  In "voting" for deletion, of course it's important to
be able explain why one believes the page should be deleted.

Larry

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Magnus Manske wrote:

> I thought about having an easy way of expressing "this page is obsolete and
> should be deleted". Currently, we have "page titles to be deleted", but it
> takes time and effort to go there and edit.
>
> The obvious solution:
> * For logged-in users (troll prevention!), have a link in the sidebar "Mark
> this page for deletion" (a shorter title might fit better, but I can't think
> of any; maybe a shredder logo?;)
> * This adds the current page to "log:Pages to be deleted" (or
> "wikipedia:Pages to be deleted")
> ** Alternatively, we mark the article in the database, so the page is "PTBD"
> page is generated on-the-fly, ensuring it doesn't list pages that already
> *have* been deleted
> * Additionally, these pages are sorted by votes (descending, the "most
> hated" on top;)
> * Optionally, list the users that voted for deletion of that page
>
> Then, a sysop (=Larry) comes along, checks out the list and cleans up behind
> us thoughtless page-creators by permanently deleting the pages he deems
> obsolete.
>
> Before I implement any of that, any ideas, comments, flames? ;)
>
> Magnus
>
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