Re: [WikiEN-l] you have to improve upon it before tagging it for speedy deletion

2009-09-18 Thread WereSpielChequers
I'm quite active at speedy deletion and often decline overenthusiastic tags, but I would disagree with making it compulsory to improve a good faith article one tags for deletion (though I'd be happy with something that encourages this). Bad faith I take as attack pages, vandalism and hoaxes But o

Re: [WikiEN-l] you have to improve upon it before tagging it for speedy deletion

2009-09-18 Thread Emily Monroe
> I'm quite active at speedy deletion and often decline > overenthusiastic tags, but I would disagree with making it > compulsory to improve a good faith article one tags for deletion > (though I'd be happy with something that encourages this). I suggested this mostly for public relation rea

Re: [WikiEN-l] you have to improve upon it before tagging it for speedy deletion

2009-09-18 Thread David Goodman
The best PR we can do is to improve the improvable articles, and explain to the authors of the others why the subjects are not suitable for Wikipedia, or why the subjects might be, but the submitted articles are not capable of being used even as a base for rewriting. Sometimes when I find a total

Re: [WikiEN-l] you have to improve upon it before tagging it for speedy deletion

2009-09-19 Thread Carcharoth
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:29 AM, David Goodman wrote: > The best PR we can do is to improve the improvable articles, and > explain to the authors of the others why the subjects are not suitable > for Wikipedia, or why the subjects might be, but the submitted > articles are not  capable of being us