On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Ian Woollard <[email protected]> wrote: > Personally, I think there should be a level above deletion and below > being visible in the wikipedia. > > For example if we made the wiki's stubs come up with a blank screen, > with a disclaimer and some kind of clicky that makes the article > appear (possibly only if you're editing it or something). > > It's not so much that the wikipedia will improve more quickly, but it > makes the difference between a friendly wikipedia and an unfriendly > one; the article can improve over time and graduate, right now, a lot > of articles with potential are simply being mashed flat, along with > the novice users feelings; it would be better if it wasn't an AFD > process but instead it was SFA (stub for article).
Out of curiosity, inspired by Ian's idea - 1. What happens with a new article's visibility under sighted revisions, until someone stamps approval? 2. Can one un-sight an article and set it back into that state, if that's a useful state? -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
