Hasteur the API does not require a username, I think your perspective is a little on the DICKish side. enwiki actually has a fairly high standard for notability in some areas coping those articles that may not meet enwiki standards is one of the key reasons wikia exists. Take a look at any of the fan wikis. They cover material in a lot of detail for the subject matter. However enwiki wouldnt allow 90% of it as its too inuniverse /trivial
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Hasteur Wikipedia < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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