User:Chriswaterguy/Turning deletion into a good faith process

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Essay - later will copy to project space - Wikipedia:Turning deletion into a good faith process.

Turning deletion into a good faith process was a proposed lightning talk at Wikimania 2007, which didn't actually take place (I think)

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[edit] Better warning templates

Template warnings could be improved to offer more help to a newbie.

There's too much to do for admins, vandal-fighters WikiGnomes and other editors to engage with every transgressor in a detailed way; templates are a way of putting best practice and careful explanations at everyone's fingertips.

Using the wrong label isn't helpful. e.g. part of my concern with the label "vandalism" for persistently adding non-notable links is that, unless that specific part of the policy is pointed out, a user is most likely to think they've been wrongly accused, and that those reverting their additions are persecuting them. Some might dismiss such attitudes, but the reality is that some people feel that way, and as a wiki with open-editing, and more importantly with a policy of "assume good faith," we need to deal with such people as best we can.

In such cases, we're talking about people who have already shown they don't "get" Wikipedia policy. It might take something akin to flashing neon lights (and clear brief explanations) to get through to them.

When such users are non-native speakers of English, this probably compounds any misunderstanding.

I'm assuming of course that someone who hasn't yet been blocked is still considered someone worth trying to engage with and explain policy to.


[edit] More options

Valuable knowledge includes more than what can fit in Wikipedia - so what do we do with the stuff that doesn't fit?

[edit] Transwiki

As noted on Wikipedia:Transwiki #(1.) Send to AfD/Use Proposed Deletion, transwikiing is one option for AfD's. If an article has already been discussed on AfD, and the outcome was to transwiki...

meta:Help:Transwiki (shouldn't there be a page on when to transwiki?)

[edit] Move to userspace

Appropedia:Template:Movenotice: The article [[{{{1}}}]], to which you were the main contributor (or one of the main contributors), has been moved to your userspace, at [[User:Movenotice/{{{1}}}]]. This was done rather than removing the article, in case you had plans to work on it further, and so that the edit history and text are conserved. If it becomes suitable for an article, it can be moved back later.

[edit] Relevant policies

  • WP:NEWBIE
  • WP:CIVIL - note this is not "be civil unless you're right and they're wrong" or "unless you're enforcing a policy."

my notes left at...

  • "advertising" on homepage incident (new, non-native speaker treated brusquely - note unfriendliness, unhelpfulness of template notices.)
  • on Appropedia?

Prods:

  • "You shot youself in the foot by not including the above info."
  • the deletion where an admin didn't follow the links.