GuildWiki talk:Don't immediately delete

This is a stupid policy in it's current form, we get inundated with rubbish being submitted here, if this policy was actually fully followed though, the regular contributors would be a month behind on Recent Changes patrolling. Read these two lines:

"When a new page is added to the Wiki, don't immediately delete the page, even if it seems nonsensical or erroneous."

"If you feel the page is beyond hope and of no use to the GuildWiki audience, mention it on the talk page".

Why would we not add a del tag to stuff that is "nonsensical or erroneous"? Or things that are "beyond hope and of no use to the GuildWiki audience"? Come on! --Xasxas256 05:13, 20 August 2006 (CDT)


 * Actually (and this may not be 100% obvious from the text) this policy applies to admins only, since regular users cannot delete articles at all anyway. You can put the delete-tag on a page as soon as you spot it if you please, even under this policy. It only applies to actually enforcing that deletion. -- [[Image:Bishop_icon2.png]] Bishop [ rap|con ] 05:24, 20 August 2006 (CDT)


 * So when you see a article of nonsenical erronous contect with a +del tag do you wait for a few days or post on the talk page? :P --Xasxas256 06:39, 20 August 2006 (CDT)


 * Neither, as I'm not an admin. ;P -- [[Image:Bishop_icon2.png]] Bishop [ rap|con ] 07:53, 20 August 2006 (CDT)


 * Picture me saying asking the rehtorical question as I'm standing on a soapbox throwing my hands up and rolling my eyes :P --Xasxas256 08:55, 20 August 2006 (CDT)


 * Actually, the policy has a major loophole by saying "This policy does not apply to changes that are clearly vandalism or spam". The majority of the articles that appear "nonsensical or erroneous" fall into the vandalism, grafitti, or spam groups and can still be deleted immediately.  --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 09:44, 20 August 2006 (CDT)


 * Crap policy imho. --[[Image:Gem-icon-sm.png]] (talk) 06:37, 21 August 2006 (CDT)

That's 4~ thumbs down. Nuke? &mdash; Skuld 06:39, 21 August 2006 (CDT)


 * I'm all for nuking/skudding it. It's a poorly worded policy that nobody follows anyway. Interesting that you should actually choose to put a note on the talk page, therby actuallu following it Skuld! ~_~ --Xasxas256 06:47, 21 August 2006 (CDT)


 * Actually, following it would've been to wait a few days instead of only a few hours following the application of the delete tag. While I agree that the policy needed some re-writing if it were to be kept, I disagree with the method in which it was scrapped.  This was an already adopted policy (admittedly poorly written).  It was eliminated approximately two hours after applying the delete tag, with no mention made in the community portal to advertise the deletion of an existing policy.
 * Note: My primary complaint here isn't about the policy itself, more about the process used to delete it. In my opinion, policy changes should be advertised in the community portal to get as much input to the change as possible, and should most certainly follow the documented process (that was here, but still exists in GW:DEL) to not be deleted until several days following application of the delete tag.  --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 09:02, 21 August 2006 (CDT)
 * Correction, it appears that it was deleted within 30 minutes of applying the delete tag, not two hours. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 09:33, 21 August 2006 (CDT)