Have you written that essay with this sort of advice in it yet? :-)
Carcharoth
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:47 AM, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote:
The important part of salvage work is not keeping the articles, but
keeping the new contributors. This is done not just by refraining
from
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 1:21 AM, WereSpielChequers
werespielchequ...@googlemail.com wrote:
I'm hoping that we won't have too many trick articles in this
process, or articles that should be deleted but not by CSD (the
criteria are write an article that doesn't meet the deletion
criteria.
Hmm,
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
Have you written that essay with this sort of advice in it yet? :-)
Carcharoth
That would make a good topic for an opinion essay in the Signpost, I think.
The point of my comment is that if I have the time to do it, the
advice is specific to the particular article. Not suggesting looking
for sources in general, but suggesting where they might be found,
keeping in mind the probable availability to the user. Not saying
avoid promotional phrases
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
I think you needed to point out which bits of information corresponded
with which sources.
I sure did! I also needed to use bullet points - but I didn't know that.
I see the failed wikilinking for Bintulu was not
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Now that's a lovely perennial idea. There's no point in hard deleting any
article save to protect private information in the history. You can pure
wiki delete; or even pure wiki delete and protect the blank page; but
