Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/Initial thoughts/reply (4)

Personally I wouldn't lose sleep if we made a change that meant a thousand extra articles at any one time on Myspace bands who will have their first rehearsal next week if they can find a drummer, and bright new upcoming footballers who haven't actually played their first professional game. I really can't see that causing Jeremy Paxman to want to interview someone about that on Newsnight or the Information Commissioner summoning in the chair of Wikimedia UK for a meeting about the precise relationship between the chapter and the Foundation. But a change that meant up to a thousand extra attack pages on the site at any one time - I'd hate to be the person who had to justify that to the press. If we did it knowingly and deliberately I'd be embarrassed to be associated with the project.

The back of the queue often bumps up to the thirty day mark, though with most articles patrolled or deleted in their first few minutes the actual queue is rarely more than 10,000 or so unpatrolled articles. If you could shift the emphasis to the back of the queue and process as many articles a day then in theory you would have an extra 500 attack pages on the site as a result of this change. But the length of the queue oscillates widely as it depends on volunteer numbers - so sometimes it would be much more.

The 5% of new articles that are attack pages currently get deleted so quickly that most people take a while at NPP to realise how common attack pages are, and lots of people who haven't spent time at NPP or cat Speedy would be quite shocked to learn its as high as 5%.