We could as easily set up new pages to have a half-hour holding
period; the problem is how to separate the need to remove the truly
nasty material immediately. A delay period inevitably requires
checking things twice.

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 3:15 PM, geni <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2008/12/31 Charlotte Webb <[email protected]>:
>> If this is truly the root of all urgency we should turn on flaggedrevs.
>
> Try and keep up with marking new pages as patrolled for say half an hour.
>
>> In the beginning we would want Google to index only an article's last
>> stable version (if one exists).
>>
>> After a certain grace period (to keep known-good content from
>> vanishing), we can begin instructing Google to stop indexing articles
>> which have no flagged rev and to de-index existing unflagged revs.
>
> There is no way to do this.
>
>> Some users like to nuke every {{third-world-topic-stub}} from
>> geostationary orbit because it is like a video game to them. Faster
>> pussycat, kill, kill, and let no mayfly die of natural causes.
>
> Not so much. Since it is generally fairly easy to argue for the
> significance of many unwritten third world articles.
>
>> Perhaps some of this energy can be channeled toward other tasks.
>
> Experience suggests not.
>
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> geni
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