I have gone to the page that has suggestion for articles to write. A lot of them actually already have been made into articles. I feel that one of the jobs volunteers can do is go through the articles and say if they are already created. That person can send a message to them saying it is already created and send a link to the article. If an article suggestion is not already an article they can click a button that says not created. What do you think?
There are ways admins (and maybe boosters?) can delete article requests. Don’t have the link on me right now, but it can be found under the list of Special pages. I’m pretty sure there are two ways to delete dup requests, but none are that streamlined. If this gets to be much of a problem, perhaps the wikiHow engineers should make a better system for searching for and then deleting dup requests.
I have seen article creation through the suggestions to be an ongoing problem. Many times I have noticed that individuals have spent time and effort in creating an article that already exists. I do not think it fair to throw their work in the trash can, so I always skip those articles in NAB. I propose that the current suggested titles be made unavailable to the nonboosters/admins and that those title suggestions be screened by a group of knowledgeable wikiHowians, then transferred into a new list (which would replace the old list).
If I may say, a lot of the stub articles are by the same person, at least in the arts and entertainment section.
