Forum:Massive deletion - discussion

This is a discussion on the ongoing mass deletion preparation and eventual execution, as approved here.

Preparation guidelines
Starting today and ending on Thursday, May 28, 2009, any user who is interested will use the Special:Random feature (also shown as the “Random page” button) to look for articles that fail the Manual of Style and encyclopedic standards. So how do we determine if an article gets deleted? Basically, it needs to fail a significant amount of MOS standards. If an article just has a few spelling errors here and there, then it wouldn’t be deleted. That’s just absurd. I’m talking things like, well, this. No offense to the author, but it’s filled with POV errors, grammar errors, spelling errors and every error you can possibly think of. It comes down to spelling, grammar, POV, structure, formatting, etc. Basically, take storyline out of the mix, and what you have left is whether or not something fits encyclopedic standards and the standards of the Manual of Style and other relevant policies.

Depending on what the issue(s) is/are, the users will tag the article with the MassDelete template. HOWEVER, other tags would need to be added as well. Tags would be things such as:


 * CleanUp
 * Fanonify
 * NPOV
 * Intro
 * Onlyinfobox
 * Tense

I’m sure there are more that I’m forgetting, since those are just off the top of my head, but I trust that you get the idea. Anyway, once MassDelete and one or more of those tags is put onto an article (this is to tell the author what's wrong with it), it’s subject to deletion. If someone objects to the tagging of the article, they can contact the person who tagged it and they can work it out together. They can call in a neutral administrator to help them decide whether it remains tagged or if it becomes untagged.

After this one month process is over, we would put out a general wiki-wide announcement saying that authors of all tagged articles have TWO MONTHS to correct the issues in their articles. I'll post a reminder about the process for that once we get there. - Brandon Rhea (talk) (contribs) 21:04, 28 April 2009 (UTC)