Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/patrolled pages/Archive 2

What not to mark as patrolled

Considering that some admins are deleting unsourced BLPs on sight, should we change the criteria to state that an unsourced BLP should not be marked as patrolled? (without either sourcing it or nominating it for deletion) Fences&Windows 00:04, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good to me.--Commander Keane (talk) 00:14, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, the practice of deleting unsourced BLPs that have no controversial information on sight is controversial. To me it's the height of bite to delete a minute old article that says "John Doe is a professional baseball player" simply because there's no source.--Fabrictramp | talk to me 00:27, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fabrictramp I don't think you are addressing the suggestion. Really I think Fences and windows suggestion could be read without the "Considering that some admins are deleting unsourced BLPs on sight" part, the suggestion is to leave new unsourced BLP unpatrolled until they are fixed - what do you think? When I first saw the original post here I was worried that it was call for immediate deletion of new unsourced BLPs (a terrible idea and bitey as you say) but it isn't asking for that at all.--Commander Keane (talk) 00:37, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If "or tagging as unsourced" was added, I'm fine with it. (Although I think one of those three things should be done for all unsourced articles, whether or not people have a tendency to delete that particular type of article.) Personally, my MO on all articles I patrol is to either fix all the problems I see, tag them as needing fixing, or start the deletion process. --Fabrictramp | talk to me 00:50, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The idea that unsourced BLP should not be marked as patrolled seems good to me. However, the idea of telling editors not to tag them as unsourced is another matter. If they are unsourced then they should be tagged as such. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:07, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Any merger for two scripts?

(Moved to WT:NPP - this sub page is largely inactive)

I am wondering if the following is possible. This script (User:Bradv/AjaxPatrolLinks.js) uses AJAX patrol links once you are on a new article, so you can click on "mark as patrolled" without leaving the page. This script (User:Mr.Z-man/patrollinks.js) adds patrol links to all unpatrolled pages when viewing in Special:NewPages, however clicking the link will load a new page. The first script seems to find the "mark as patrolled" link by div class (which is always 'patrollink' on new pages), which is not used by the second script. The second script generates the links without a div class, instead using a span id that changes with each link. (i.e., <span id="plink0">, <span id="plink1">, etc).

The million dollar question: is there any way to combine the scripts so I can have AJAX patrol links on Special:NewPages? This would useful on other projects like Commons as well. ^Avic _ennasis @ 22:57, 7 Elul 5770 / 17 August 2010 (UTC)