New articles - making democracy and motivating newbies
no no no! The problem is wikipedia is scared to fail. Wikipedia must learn that having rubbish articles on display is perfectly OK. All you need is a decent rating system so anyone at a glance can see it is an unregulated article. Or a filter so a user can hide such articles. but the default must be all articles are visible and come up in searches and.....rubish articles are fine. The problem is people obviosuly will not do something they are prevented from doing.
Ok, I absolutely agree stick with all suggested (Dream of Nyx). But what to do about pornographic articles, for example? For easily avoiding the return of evil administrators (and groups of them), the system may have automatic intelligent filters to prevent articles with certain words or suspect images. A machine and not a man could automatically move this article to a reserved space, contact the editor and explain the issues. However must be tolerance to accept some temporary bad articles (this is a inevitable feature in any system) that cheated the system.
I've been described by one deletionist as a "hemp clad sandal wearing inclusionist" despite my doing over five thousand deletions on the English Wikipedia. But even I would contend that every day we get articles that say awful things about people, articles that deservedly get deleted in minutes. Having seen some of the cyber-bullying pages and other contributions by "friends of gays" I think it is really important that we continue to delete bad faith articles, blatant spam and ones that assert non-notability "x is my girlfriend, our high school prom Queen and the most beautiful girl in the world".
I like the suggestion that we enable all logged in users to access their own "deleted" edits (we have oversight and revision delete when we really need to delete stuff).
But for good faith contributors we could do something very different to what we do now, hence my proposal elsewhere on this wiki Proposal:Speedy deletion - 24 hour pause for some articles