Re: [WikiEN-l] New deletion policy suggestion

For those who haven't been following the discussion on Talk: Votes for Deletion, I thought I'd drag this idea into the light of debate: I agree that the VfD process is overused; look at the relatively high proportion of "keep" votes. Ideally, only pages that are relatively clear-cut cases would go here, with the rest being moved to cleanup or elsewhere. But the WikiMoney plan would harm new users, and also be quite complicated to use. Why not a better plan, such as: Before any page can be listed on regular VfD, it must be listed on cleanup and left there for some time; I'm thinking two weeks, but this is negotiable. After that, it can be moved to VfD, and a vote can be held. Of course, the regular candidates for speedy deletion could go, and the copyvio delete page would be unaffected. Not only would this solve the overuse of VfD, it would also help stop the occasional listing on VfD of copyvios. And, it could be accomplished by simply placing a notice at the top of the VfD page, rather than encumbering everyone with a complicated system of WikiMoney, which might frighten newbies and irritate old hands. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l