Forum:CT Archive/Deleting old copyvio articles

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On User:Silly Dan/Copyvio sandbox, I've stolen Sikon's code from WP:VIP's dynamic section to list all of the copyvio-tagged pages we have. This sort of thing would be easier and faster to maintain than our current procedure of manually listing copyvio pages on WP:COPY and removing them when the violation is dealt with, since pages would be added and removed automatically.

If we change the instructions on copyvio to do this, I suggest making a few other changes to the procedure to further simplify things:
 * 1) Rather than muck about with temp pages, perhaps the instructions should just tell our editors to either rewrite the article from scratch without the copyvio text, or revert to the last version which is not a copyright violation.
 * 2) We should decide if we actually are going to delete week-old copyvio pages with no non-copyvio history: to my knowledge, this has never been done.
 * 3) The url field should be optional, and supplemented with a "source" field for cases where a book rather than a website is copied.

Comments? &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 01:39, 10 September 2006 (UTC)