HowTo:Save an awful article from deletion
Got a penchant for writing just plain shitty articles? Sick of those fucking admins deleting said shitty articles? Never fear, just follow this step by step guide on how to cleverly avoid deletion!
The Hard Way[edit | edit source]
First off, there are two ways to save a crappy article from deletion: the Easy Way and the Hard Way. The Hard Way is, as you might have guessed, much harder. It involves adding actual humor to the article, formatting it properly, and *gasp* avoiding the use of namedropping. But wait, you say, only Chuck Norris (and to a lesser extent, Steven Seagal) can write awesome articles without once dropping their own name! All you need to do is just change the article to make it have a first or second person narrator. See? I told you it would work! It wasn't so easy though, was it?
Another surefire way to make your article appear better is to add self-reference. This method is pretty self-explanatory (get it?).
The Easy Way[edit | edit source]
The Easy Way is widely considered to be the easier of the two ways. The first thing you need to do is identify your enemy.
Your Enemy[edit | edit source]
Any fool can write an average sized and unfunny article such as this, and while this won't be deleted instantly like Euroipods or Fisher Price, it can still be given a one-way ticket to hell by means of your worst enemy: the ICU tag.
There are several ways to avoid the ICU tag, but the easiest is just by adding the {{construction}} tag. This gives you, at most, 7 days to tilt your chair back and watch as people think your article is going to go somewhere, which is the exact length you need to avoid the ICU. Edit once after you add the tag, pushing the time of the last edit slightly past the 7 day ICU limit.
Allow me to demonstrate.
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This page is a work in progress But let's give it a chance. The author will finish it later. Or maybe not. Should they choose the latter, within seven days, this page will not exist anymore. Now, go away! |
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Of course...[edit | edit source]
The author of this article is forgetting that pages marked with {{construction}} can be automatically deleted by admins seven days after the last edi-
- 12:59, 05 August 2007 Strange but untrue (Talk | contribs) huffed "HowTo:Save an awful article from deletion" (Abandoned WIP.)
Conclusion[edit | edit source]
That is why you should never, ever go to see Spamalot at the time of your article's seven day anniversary. If you haven't seen Spamalot yet, just remove the WiP tag and... voila! Your awful article is safe and sound.
Until someone VFDs it.