Just restored a former prime minister. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Carcharoth <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:03 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2010/1/21 Gwern Branwen <[email protected]>: > > <snip> > > >> silent mass deletions are now an acceptable admin tactic. > > > > That bit's not ideal, I'd think they should be listed first. Perhaps a > > {{BLP-prod}}, where someone has a few days to put the references in. > > OR THE ARTICLE DIES. > > I'm not going to say much in this thread (I'm in the group that's been > asked to arbitrate this dispute), but I would urge a list be made of > where discussion is taking place on-wiki about process related to > this, and for people to help form a workable consensus there. > > I would add that one part of the problem is bagging and tagging these > BLPs when they are created. If someone can demonstrate that BLPs > currently being created are getting enough attention, that would > ensure that things are reasonably under control from that end (the > BLPs that have been unsourced for years are technically a backlog - > the ones being created now should also be dealt with, otherwise the > problem grows again). The lessons from the past are that if you turn > away for even a few months from situations like this, the creation of > new articles returns you to square one. > > Overall, a discussion on whether Wikipedia has the volunteer resources > to maintain articles of a certain type to a minimum standard, is > needed. Plus whether technical measures (flagged revisions) will help > that or not. Another part of the problem is that some of these > discussions have been had before, and some people are assuming > everyone knows the stats and figures involved. Pointers to summaries > are helpful. There is one here: > > > http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080415/the-biographies-of-living-people-problem/ > > We also have: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:User_essays_on_BLP > > Carcharoth > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
