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Experimental deletion explores new ways to deal with unwanted content on Wikipedia. The objective is to find ways to reduce pressure on Articles for Deletion, and reduce the workload both for administrators and for maintainers. Some related conversation may be found at Wikipedia:Deletion reform.
These experiments might try to use only existing mediawiki features, but feel free to try to get code or patches for your personal XD methods accepted into the mediawiki code tree!
For the duration of the experiment, if your XD method makes use of admin deletion, substitute this with listing the page on Articles for Deletion or use the procedures listed under Criteria for Speedy Deletion instead, as appropriate. In this way, wikipedia will be disrupted as little as possible, and old policy will continue to be applied.
When experimenting with any of these models, please remember to revisit and send experimentally deleted pages to WP:AfD or WP:SD. We have promised to keep wikipedia tidy and clean up after ourselves.
Try one of the following systems.
eXperimental Deletion method XD1 applies the KISS principle.
Isn't this basically a glorified speedy tag? ~~ N ( t/ c) 01:38, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
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eXperimental Deletion method XD2 applies templates and categories. It is slightly more complex than XD1, but the workload is less.
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eXperimental Deletion method XD3 applies to article page deletion. This method moves problem articles to a "trash" wikispace, then either leaves a message at the former location, or submits the redirect for speedy deletion (depending on the variation). This leaves the problem page orphaned within the trash space, where it can then be permanently deleted or rescued and restored as felt needed.
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eXperimental Deletion method XD4 is only a corollary to the existing method XD2.
In the user preferences under "Misc", a threshold for "stub display" can be set, which will give links to articles with a size in bytes that is under that threshold a different CSS class ("stub"). That CSS class is normally set to a dark red, but can be changed in the user CSS of course, so you can set it to redlink red (#CC2200) if you want.
A problem with all the previous techniques is that they leave bluelinks for deleted articles. If we use a template with a really short name (e.g. <10 bytes, which is possible) to mark deletions, we can set our stub thresholds to 11 bytes and enjoy seeing our deletions create redlinks, at least for us.
Set your stub threshold as described above to 12 bytes. Replace articles that you wish to faux-delete with {{ XD4}} (and nothing else!) and state your reasons in the edit summary. Then proceed as described in XD2, but enjoy the redlinks you are creating. The category in which you can find pseudo-deleted articles is Category:XD4.
An example can be seen at Epica Magna. (This one has a {{ copyvio}} on it, but the same principle applies).
To get true redlink-looking links from this trick, add the following to your monobook.css:
/* set stubs to normal redlink color */ a.stub { color:#CC2200; }
You can, of course, use any color you like, or leave the default dark red.
In addition to the pros&cons of XD2, the following applies:
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eXperimental Deletion method XD5 is a slight variation to XD2, and uses templates and categories.
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{{XD6|This deletion process is the '''best ever'''.}}
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{{XD7|This deletion process is the '''best ever'''.}}
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An experimental deletion system going semi-live! See: Wikipedia:Proposed deletion Kim Bruning 23:34, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
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![]() | This page is currently inactive and is retained for
historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump. |
![]() | This page was used as an exploration of experimental methods of deletion. They were never official in any way, and have now been superseded by proposed deletion, which grew out of some of the experimental deletion procedures which were tested here. Please use proposed deletion for new deletion candidates. |
Experimental deletion explores new ways to deal with unwanted content on Wikipedia. The objective is to find ways to reduce pressure on Articles for Deletion, and reduce the workload both for administrators and for maintainers. Some related conversation may be found at Wikipedia:Deletion reform.
These experiments might try to use only existing mediawiki features, but feel free to try to get code or patches for your personal XD methods accepted into the mediawiki code tree!
For the duration of the experiment, if your XD method makes use of admin deletion, substitute this with listing the page on Articles for Deletion or use the procedures listed under Criteria for Speedy Deletion instead, as appropriate. In this way, wikipedia will be disrupted as little as possible, and old policy will continue to be applied.
When experimenting with any of these models, please remember to revisit and send experimentally deleted pages to WP:AfD or WP:SD. We have promised to keep wikipedia tidy and clean up after ourselves.
Try one of the following systems.
eXperimental Deletion method XD1 applies the KISS principle.
Isn't this basically a glorified speedy tag? ~~ N ( t/ c) 01:38, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
![]() | experimental use only |
eXperimental Deletion method XD2 applies templates and categories. It is slightly more complex than XD1, but the workload is less.
![]() | experimental use only |
eXperimental Deletion method XD3 applies to article page deletion. This method moves problem articles to a "trash" wikispace, then either leaves a message at the former location, or submits the redirect for speedy deletion (depending on the variation). This leaves the problem page orphaned within the trash space, where it can then be permanently deleted or rescued and restored as felt needed.
![]() | experimental use only |
eXperimental Deletion method XD4 is only a corollary to the existing method XD2.
In the user preferences under "Misc", a threshold for "stub display" can be set, which will give links to articles with a size in bytes that is under that threshold a different CSS class ("stub"). That CSS class is normally set to a dark red, but can be changed in the user CSS of course, so you can set it to redlink red (#CC2200) if you want.
A problem with all the previous techniques is that they leave bluelinks for deleted articles. If we use a template with a really short name (e.g. <10 bytes, which is possible) to mark deletions, we can set our stub thresholds to 11 bytes and enjoy seeing our deletions create redlinks, at least for us.
Set your stub threshold as described above to 12 bytes. Replace articles that you wish to faux-delete with {{ XD4}} (and nothing else!) and state your reasons in the edit summary. Then proceed as described in XD2, but enjoy the redlinks you are creating. The category in which you can find pseudo-deleted articles is Category:XD4.
An example can be seen at Epica Magna. (This one has a {{ copyvio}} on it, but the same principle applies).
To get true redlink-looking links from this trick, add the following to your monobook.css:
/* set stubs to normal redlink color */ a.stub { color:#CC2200; }
You can, of course, use any color you like, or leave the default dark red.
In addition to the pros&cons of XD2, the following applies:
![]() | experimental use only |
eXperimental Deletion method XD5 is a slight variation to XD2, and uses templates and categories.
![]() | experimental use only |
{{XD6|This deletion process is the '''best ever'''.}}
![]() | experimental use only |
{{XD7|This deletion process is the '''best ever'''.}}
![]() | experimental use only |
An experimental deletion system going semi-live! See: Wikipedia:Proposed deletion Kim Bruning 23:34, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Purge the cache to refresh this page