Forum:New deletion policy
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Ok, so recently I came up with an idea, and that's to clear out a ton of low quality articles. We're way too relaxed when it comes to housekeeping, so I think one of the ways we can improve the wiki is by getting rid of a lot of low quality articles. Proposal as follows:
This is a proposal for a new deletion policy that aims to reduce the amount of stubs on Pikmin Fanon. Many articles on Pikmin Fanon are very short and low quality, and have not been edited by their author in years. As such, these articles take up room, and need to go. Here are the guidelines of what articles should be deleted:
- Short articles (articles less than 500 characters; check Special:Shortpages for a list of short articles)
- Articles with little to no information
- Articles with no templates and categories
- Articles that are old, i.e. they haven't been edited by their creator for at least two years
- Articles with little to no other articles linking to it (check Special:Whatlinkshere for articles linking to the page)
If you're not an administrator and you want to help out, mark the article with {{delete}}.
The purpose of deleting so many stubs is to spend time fixing articles that actually need improvement, instead of fixing articles that aren't worth fixing. In other words, deleting these low quality articles will let us focus more on the articles that need to be improved.
If your article is deleted but you want it restored, ask an administrator to restore it for you. Of course, don't ask them to restore it if you don't plan on improving it. If you don't improve it within 2 weeks of its restoration, it will be deleted again and will also be protected so you cannot try to recreate it.
Thoughts? ~PikFan23 (Admin) 20:07, 6 December 2015 (EST)
- I like the idea, but there's something that worries me. I'd say at least half of the wiki's content falls under at least one of these criteria, and there are certainly more articles that we would consider low quality that don't, with the first example to come to mind being most of our Pikmin varieties. I think we need to be very cautious when approaching QA because of how much utter crap there is here, and I'm not sure if this is a good start. --En Passant 02:14, 7 December 2015 (EST)
- Hmm, yeah. Really, I'm just trying to get rid of the super old and short articles because I don't think anybody cares about those. (We still never got around to fully fixing the Pikmin articles, which are very low quality, as you mentioned. They need a thorough reworking...) I also agree that we should be cautious when it comes to mass deletions such as this, but since I'm pretty much the only active admin around, I'll make sure to be careful about what articles I delete. Also, like I said, even if an article is deleted, it can still be restored, as per the author's request. ~PikFan23 (Admin) 03:13, 7 December 2015 (EST)
