I am willing to do the work to prepare them, I think that I could find people to help me. please give me access, I will be responsible. mike
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:44 PM, WereSpielChequers <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- 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
