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==Moderator rules for evaluating and processing submissions== | ==Moderator rules for evaluating and processing submissions== | ||
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*[[Template:ToneWarning|ToneWarning]]<br />Use for an article where the tone is significantly non-compliant, and needs major improvement | *[[Template:ToneWarning|ToneWarning]]<br />Use for an article where the tone is significantly non-compliant, and needs major improvement | ||
*[[Template:Irrelevant|Irrelevant]] <br />Use for an article that is on the edge of not being relevant, and an editor feels falls foul of the inclusion criteria above. Basically a limbo to put articles in where their merits can be discussed before a decision is made on their deletion. | *[[Template:Irrelevant|Irrelevant]] <br />Use for an article that is on the edge of not being relevant, and an editor feels falls foul of the inclusion criteria above. Basically a limbo to put articles in where their merits can be discussed before a decision is made on their deletion. | ||
*[[Template: | *[[Template:DeletionRequest|DeletionRequest]]<br />Use for an article which is clearly irrelevant, spam, or not likely to be improved. | ||
*[[Template:SloppyAI|SloppyAI]]<br />Use for an article where AI is heavily used without enough care and/or supervision to guarantee the credibility or readability or the article. | *[[Template:SloppyAI|SloppyAI]]<br />Use for an article where AI is heavily used without enough care and/or supervision to guarantee the credibility or readability or the article. | ||
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| colspan="2" |[[:Category:Articles marked as irrelevant|Articles marked as irrelevant]] | | colspan="2" |[[:Category:Articles marked as irrelevant|Articles marked as irrelevant]] | ||
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| colspan="2" |[[:Category:Articles | | colspan="2" |[[:Category:Articles with deletion requests|Articles with deletion requests]] | ||
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|<code>SloppyAI</code> | |<code>SloppyAI</code> | ||
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====F. Deletion requests and merge requests:==== | ====F. Deletion requests and merge requests:==== | ||
Users can use the request templates <code>DeletionRequest</code> ([[Template:DeletionRequest|deletion request template page]]) and <code>MergeRequest</code>[[Template:MergeRequest| merge request template page]]) to indicate pages that may need deletion. DeletionRequest notices should not be applied to articles which could be reasonably served by other notices, as they appear quite aggressive, and could serve to 'bite' newbies. Their primary use is for spam, and for non-moderators to alert moderators of pages which may need deletion. For pages which don't belong on the wiki due to their topic (but it appears that the author of the | Users can use the request templates <code>DeletionRequest</code> ([[Template:DeletionRequest|deletion request template page]]) and <code>MergeRequest</code>[[Template:MergeRequest| merge request template page]]) to indicate pages that may need deletion. DeletionRequest notices should not be applied to articles which could be reasonably served by other notices, as they appear quite aggressive, and could serve to 'bite' newbies. Their primary use is for spam, and for non-moderators to alert moderators of pages which may need deletion. For pages which don't belong on the wiki due to their topic (but it appears that the author of the article has created the article in good faith), the Irrelevant notice should be used instead. For severely underdeveloped pages, use stub notices, and so on. A page which has been an extremely short stub for a long time with no sign of maintenance can be served with a deletion notice if it appears abandoned. Look through the [[:Category:Articles with merge requests|Articles with merge requests]] and [[:Category:Articles with deletion requests|Articles with deletion requests]] categories (both in the[[:Category:Todo| todo]] category) in order to look though these requests. | ||
If a deletion request is determined to be valid, the linked pages need to be handled and after that the page should be marked with the <code><nowiki>{{Garbage}}</nowiki></code> template and protected from edits, pending final deletion. | If a deletion request is determined to be valid, the linked pages need to be handled and after that the page should be marked with the <code><nowiki>{{Garbage}}</nowiki></code> template and protected from edits, pending final deletion. | ||