Re: Norms around Deleting Articles

Thanks Alex! This is a very reasonable approach.
+Scott



On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Alex Komoroske <komoroske@google.com>wrote:

> We've got a nascent procedure for deleting articles, documented at
> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Flags/Deletion_Candidate . It
> defines how you mark an article for deletion, but doesn't say much about
> what's supposed to happen after that.
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> Right now we're in the early stages of defining the site, so we all might
> have different ideas on what should be deleted and what should not.
> (Incidentally, we may *never *solve this; a debate has been raging on
> Wikipedia forever between the deletionists and the inclusionists.)  We're a
> community that prefers norms over rules (
> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Pillars), but I think we should make
> sure our norms are aligned.
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> Here's my current expectation:
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> If the page is not clearly spam and there's a primary author of the page
> (for example, it was created recently by someone) at least *some *effort
> should be made to involve that person in the deletion discussion before
> deleting. Failing that, at least getting a quick sanity check "SGTM" from
> someone on IRC is reasonable before deleting. If the discussion gets more
> involved, it should move to e-mail.
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> Does that match with what others think?
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> --Alex
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