Anthony SoraceI want a bot which posts about English Wikipedia articles marked for deletion due to notability. There are so many cases of the notability guidelines being abused, especially to target underrepresented groups, it seems like this would be a useful tool to combat that. Does such a thing exist?
Jorge StolfiThe deletion mechanism of Wikipedia must be the main cause of editor burnout. There is a clique of editors who get their kicks by bossing other editors and deleting their work, rather than creating or improving articles. Instead of discussing a proposed deletion on the article's talk page, they have their own corner of Wikpedia - the "Articles for Deletion" (AfD) page -- which is usually frequented only by them...
PeteI think deletion generally is a bad idea.
Accretion should be the way, and then improve tools for searching filtering, combing, augmenting, etc.
njsg@pete @JorgeStolfi @a There should at least be the option to restore on request to a page under one's user page, or keep it somewhere outside of the main namespace, because otherwise it's hard to improve based on the previous work keeping the attribution/authorship information.
And meanwhile I have to figure out what to do regarding https://en.wikipedia.org/Fsn_%28file_manager%29
Which is definitely notable, the only matter is probably really just that no outsider participated in the deletion vote?
#wikipedia #enwiki
@pete @JorgeStolfi @a Requesting such restore seems to be an option in #enwiki, let's hope the admins in charge of that aren't like those of #ptwiki...
So what's going on here? The templates used to generate these responses are outdated? I could go read the rules and project pages more in-depth, but experience with #ptwiki tells me I shouldn't rule out the text being incorrect or the rules not being followed...:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion#fsn_%28file_manager%29