User:MBisanz/Filter Proposal

One of the biggest problems I have monitoring Special:Newpages is that I can't tell the history of whose created a new page. What I'm proposing is that:

• A filter option be added to the Newpage interface.

This feature would let the user input a number of edits above which they don't care if a user is contributing new pages.

Then only the newpages of users who had fewer than "x" number of edits would be displayed.

For instance, I really don't feel the need to check User:Blofeld of SPECTRE's edits. On the other hand, if a user with only 10 edits is creating a page, I'd probably want to check that, since there is a much greater chance it will be spam, a self-autobiography, or a copy vio.

I certainly have no objection; this might also solve the problem of skipping over bot-created pages. For example, ProteinBoxBot is as I write this creating a few hundred pages, and I dont think we need to watch them particularly carefully in detail. DGG (talk) 08:28, 21 December 2007 (UTC) -- oops--I saw saw we can hide bots already. I for one want to check some established editors just as much as the new guys, but by now i recognize the names. I see nothing wrong with the option, now that we have patrolled pages enabled. The ones one person skips skips, someone else can get to. DGG (talk) 08:33, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

This is a good idea. I have had some trouble with this also, especially when the bots are creating a lot of pages. Academic Challenger (talk) 10:56, 21 December 2007 (UTC)