Mike do you realise how big a task that would be? We have stats going back to December 2004 showing millions of such deletions. We have data going back further, but some of our earliest edits are no longer available.
Providing we screen out the children releasing personal details, the copyvio and the attack pages then I doubt anyone would mind you having the genuinely non-notable. But that means that each such deleted article would need to be reviewed before giving it to you, and there are millions of them. Worse still only admins can access those deleted edits and though our editing community as a whole is broadly stable, the number of active admins has sharply declined. I would suggest that if you want a freely available source of non-noteable articles you look at our redirects. In particular look for redirects that aren't just a different spelling of the name, and that have had multiple edits. That should get you the articles on songs that have been redirected to the article on a band and of fictional characters that have been redirected to the film they appeared in. You don't need access to deleted revisions and generally they will be closer to notability than "garage band that will be the next big thing on the Stoke Poges grunge scene once they've recruited a drummer". WSC On 3 July 2012 07:34, Mike Dupont <[email protected]> wrote: > So people, I would like to request that all the old non-notable > articles be given to me for archiving on speedydeletion, > artists, bands, websites, hotels etc, would that be possible? > thanks > mike > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Ken Arromdee <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, WereSpielChequers wrote: > >> > >> I'm not inclined to shed a tear for hotel articles, many of which are I > >> suspect being created by spammers, but David makes an important point re > >> cultural bias from our lack of sources in certain parts of the world. > > > > > > Wasn't there a probem where Jimbo wrote an article for a restaurant in > > South Africa and people tried to delete it for this reason? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > -- > James Michael DuPont > Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org > Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org > Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
