Well, what's the point in blanking a page? The history would still be
retained and it doesn't save any space.
Anyway, I want to correct a few misconceptions.
AFC people aren't overworked the way deletion admins would be because AFC
work doesn't require admin abilities. The overworkedness is simply due to
the fact only a small number of people are tending to it. If my initial
message can get more people interested in joining the workload for each
individual person would go down.
Also, good suggestions occasionally get lost when a newbie somehow blanks
the page. I wanted RC patrollers to be on the look out for this to save some
good articles. AFC patrollers are too busy in looking at the entries
themselves that they often don't note blankings. RC patrollers would see
that, but so far never acted.
Lastly, I prefer the current situation to anons being able to create new
pages. It's easier to evaluate a suggestion and post it if it's good than to
spend half an hour deleting unsuitable entries from the main namespace.
Mgm
On 6/9/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/9/06, maru dubshinki <marudubshinki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Flushing the archives isn't a particularly
good idea, because good
articles *do* get lost in AFC. Now, if we had some mechanism to mark
each day as "Done", then that would be another thing.
Done is the same thing as "we have extracted all the good articles out
of this mess", isn't it? Marking the page as done would be the same
blanking it.
Steve
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