Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-03-23/Abuse Filter

Why the hell would you let ANY non-admin user blank ANY page?? TechnoFaye Kane 05:50, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, there is already a proposal to upgrade this to full disallow. In answer to your question, a few percent of what gets blanked are pages that should legitimately be deleted (e.g. attack pages, vandalism only pages), but the newbie doesn't know how to correctly ask for deletion. Dragons flight (talk) 06:08, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion/kite-flying: Have 'To start redirect/revert/etc procedure click (link here)' - and have a simplified proceedure (for newbies, and persons in a hurry). Reporting 'inappropriate text'/'request for second opinion' (ie one can see 'summat's wrong' but not how to resolve the matter) might be slightly more complex. Jackiespeel (talk) 17:12, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

After my last anti-blanking proposal, a couple of people came up with a couple of suggestions of why. The main one was if someone on the Internet found an article about themselves - maybe it's libellous, inaccurate, whatever - and they're new to Wikipedia and they figure out what "edit this page" means, and they blank the page because they don't know what else to do. Tempshill (talk) 23:40, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]