Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-35711173-20180828043308/@comment-10502460-20180906053551

There is an unwritten rule that that older stories are treated more leniently under quality standards and should only be hit with an M4R if you have a really good reason. Helel had to warn JDeschene a few months ago because she M4R'd a bunch of stories from years ago without being aware of this custom. As Helel told her, if the story has been edited by a staff member, especially recently, it's probably good to stay.

That said older stories are not immune to M4R, and I actually marked a five-year old pasta for deletion a couple months ago because I knew there was no way staff would not want it deleted once they saw it.