Wikipedia:WikiProject Article Rescue Squadron/Newsletter/20090901/News
Article Rescue Squadron Newsletter
Volume 1 No. 1
News and Announcements |
Article Rescue Squadron events
Membership increases
In 2009, the membership of Article Rescue Squadron has more than doubled. At the end of 2008 there were 117 members,[1] just 9 months later, there are 277 members, making Article Rescue Squadron one of the largest Wikiprojects on Wikipedia.
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The ARS was put up for deletionThe Article Rescue Squadron was put up for deletion in May of this year, the result of the discussion was keep. Thank you to everyone who supported this project in the MfD. |
Five media outlets mentioned ARSIt was recently discovered that five media outlets mentioned the Article Rescue Squadron.
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Studies and articles about deletion
Articles for deletion affect new users the most
Article rescue squadron member User:Ikip studied one random day of Article for Deletion. In the study he found, 67% of all articles which were put up for deletion were created by editors who had 100 contributions or less when they created the article.
This means a lot of new editors are having their work deleted, which may have a negative effect on editor retention.
The full study is here User:Ikip/AfD on average day. Note the see also section which has some very interesting articles.
Journalists views on deletion
Journalists' negative views |
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New tools and pages for the Squadron
ARS Hall of FameThe Article Rescue Squadron Hall of Fame was developed in January 2009, as an expansion of the "examples of rescued articles" section on the main page. A small medal was created, which floats at the top right of a user's talk or user page, similar to the good article or featured article medal . Anyone can award anyone else this medal. |
List of articles tagged for rescue
Keep up with all of the articles currently tagged for rescue, you can add this to your user page by adding:
- {{Template:ARS/Tagged}}
Articles tagged for deletion and rescue |
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Category Articles tagged for deletion and rescue not found
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ARS dashboard
Created in August 2008, and tweeked in March, you can add this to your user page by adding:
- {{Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron/Dashboard}}
For articles listed for rescue consideration, see Article Rescue Squadron Rescue list |
There are currently 758 articles tagged for deletion at Articles for deletion. |
Invite and Welcome new members
This year the Article Rescue Squadron created two new templates, which any editor can use to invite new members
Invitation and Welcome | |||
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Add {{subst:WP:ARSI}} to invite an editor to join the Article Rescue Squadron.
Add {{subst:WP:ARSW}} to welcome a new member.
Hi, WikiProject Article Rescue Squadron/Newsletter/20090901, welcome to the Article Rescue Squadron WikiProject! We are a growing community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to identifying and rescuing articles and content that have been nominated for deletion. Every day hundreds of articles are deleted, many rightfully so. But many concern notable subjects and are poorly written, ergo fixable, and should not be deleted. We try to help these articles and content to quickly improve and address the concerns of why they are proposed for deletion. This covers a lot of ground and your help is appreciated! Some points that may be helpful:
If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the talk page, and we will be happy to help you. And once again — Welcome! ~~~~
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New tools for all of wikipedia
New notification for all new articles
Anytime any editor starts a new article the text above the text box states:
- You can also start your new article at Special:MyPage/Article name. You can develop the article, with less risk of deletion, ask other editors to help work on it, and move it into "article space" when it is ready.
Article Rescue Squadron members petitioned for this change. Article Rescue Squadron hope it will allow more new users the chance to develop new articles without the risk of deletion.
Articles for deletion notification bot
User:Erwin85Bot is now up and running, thanks to User:Erwin. User:Erwin85Bot notifies the creator of the Articles for deletion. According to User:Erwin, the bot is also designed to notify "all authors [of an article] with more than 5 non-minor edits." The idea to create a new Articles for deletion notification bot was first discussed on the Article Rescue Squadron talk page, before being petitioned for on Wikipedia:Bot requests.