Bryan Derksen wrote:
SonOfYoungwood(a)aol.com wrote:
I agree that the deletionists are starting to act
a little on the ridiculous
side, and something needs to be done soon. Wikipedia needs an injection of
common sense.
Does anyone know what the status of article validation or version
tagging or whatever the specific term is for that feature? I looked
around but the latest edits to pages about this topic were from mid-2006
or so.
At Wikimania they were planning to start it on de: and after a month of
testing there a rudimentary form could be applied to en:. All it was
going to do was to record whether an article had been checked for
vandalism. That's not much, but it would have been a beginning.
I've long felt that something like it could be the
key to resolving (or
at least drastically reducing) the inclusionism/deletionism dispute. If
there were a way to tag articles as warranting inclusion in a Wikipedia
1.0 or not, I believe there wouldn't be such a strong drive to outright
_delete_ stuff that some people believe is "unencyclopedic" or
"non-notable". The articles about Pokemon or webcomics or whatever else
is controversial on those grounds could be tagged appropriately,
allowing distributors of Wikipedia forks and mirrors to choose their own
threshold for notability with simple filters.
It wouldn't solve everything, but any reduction in the time needed to
argue about deletions would be a step in the right direction.
Ec