[wiki] CategoryQuestionableContent

[Pasi Lallinaho]

On 14/12/13 23:00, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Bad wiki pages keep bothering me.
>
> I just created
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CategoryQuestionableContent
>
> Don't know if it's a good idea; maybe I should have added the "Candidate
> for deletion" tag to the page in question
> (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LocaleConf) instead. But the
> guidelines for that tag say:
>
> <quote>
> Pages which cover subjects which are inappropriate for the Help wiki
> (this wiki). These might include:
> 1. Spam or advertising material.
> 2. Links to malicious files or other unsavoury websites.
> 3. Pages which are useless to all Ubuntu users.
> </quote>
>
> But LocaleConf is just ... bad. The page is confusing, and it's unclear
> (to me) which situations it would apply to. The page is not necessarily
> *useless* to *all* Ubuntu users.
>
> Is it just me? Am I misreading the guidelines?
>
> Please help!
>

I guess you could tag it with Tag/Deletion and Tag/NeedsUpdating as 
well, with an explanation comment on the page. Using the tags is better 
than categories, since the tags are clearly listed as well as visible 
for anybody who loads the page. Also since other contributors know pages 
are going to marked with them, they are discoverable easily.

It's better to tag a page with a wrong tag than not mark it and leave it 
mostly hidden from other contributors.

On the other hand, if you are going to take actions with the page 
yourself, I don't see any problem if you list the pages with categories 
(as well). Anything that helps contributors is always good.

If the tag descriptions need updating (I'm sure they do!), please 
propose a new description, or start a discussion (which we just kind of 
did...)

Cheers,
Pasi

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