Martin wrote:
On 02/10/2013 19:48, Bart wrote:
On 10/1/13, Mark Morgan Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote:
There's always a risk that the author has created the page as the first
step to putting in something relevant, but if he doesn't make that clear
with e.g. a "work in progress" introduction or at least an explanation
in the talk page then it's at his own risk.
In some of the pages I wrote in "discussion" tab: "Why is this page in
this wiki? It has no bearing or programming" or something similar.
The original author has not responded to that.
looking at (which I found by looking for recent talk)
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/vpn/de
This page has NEITHER
- pascal relevance
- nor any significant amount of work that went into it.
Any such "dummy articles, written in 5 minutes or less", I would suggest
to delete with short, or no notice.
If the author can't be identified as a known user and won't explain his
rationale then he and his contributions should be treated as suspect-
particularly if the contribution is cut-and-paste from elsewhere.
If he's not keeping an eye on the article and its talk page then I'd
suspect that he's sounding out the wiki as a potential home for link
spam or similar. I'm having to do quite a lot of manual spam filtering
at the moment, and I'm seeing quite a lot of subject lines that look
like they've come from Google Books. So a certain species of vermin is,
regrettably, getting smarter.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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