What's the request path for asking for deletion? I'm going to write a bot process that requests deletion of everything over 6 months old. Leaving these speedied pseudo-articles around only leaves the doorway wide open to have enterprising individuals use it as a base of a new article attempt.
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 3, 2014, at 7:45 AM, Mike Dupont <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Marc A. Pelletier <[email protected]> wrote: >> , to thread carefully: the enwiki speedy >> deletion rules are there for a reason; and much of what ends up being >> deleted are copyright violation, libel, and sometimes worse - and I'm >> pretty sure that his bot effectively republishes it from a legal point >> of view. > > > I have been running this for a while now, i delete all articles upon > request. I get about 1 a week. There has not been any major problem. > > Really i am interested only in the non notable articles : Indian > actors and Albanian football players. Things that the new york times > does not write about and therefore get deleted. > > The copyrightvio ones I try and filter out there are tags on the > deletion requests. > > We are up to 300k en articles are just launching the other languages. > thanks > > -- > James Michael DuPont > Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://www.flossk.org > Saving Wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
