Research talk:Wikipedia Workflows/Article

Ian, this page is great: thank you for making it. We do really suffer from a lack of high-level documentation of the editing process: this page will help :-) I was glad to find out about it when you did the lightning talk at the all-staff. Sue Gardner 18:41, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Comments

Some comments.

• In current practice there is an arrow from articles at any stage to AFD, CSD and PROD. That is, an article at any stage can be deleted.
• There is a variant BLPPROD.
• An article cannot be sent to PROD more than once.
• There are arrows from AFD, PROD and CSD back to article without going through AA.
• A common form of article creation is the expansion of a redirect.
• Articles can be created by merger or split.
• GA is not an end state; articles can lose that status.
• Deleted article is not an end state: Deletion Review can return a deleted article either to mainspace or userspace.

Spectral sequence (talk) 20:38, 16 October 2013 (UTC)