[WikiEN-l] Rampant Deletionism

Fri Nov 7 01:53:14 UTC 2003

Stan Shebs wrote:
> I think this would be an interesting experiment; gives hardcore
deletionists
> an incentive to think about other ways to control junk, like creating
> [[Junk Article]] and making bad articles redir to it - moves debate
> from VfD to the talk pages where it should be in the first place. Notify
on
> VfD, then protect it; and as Vicki mentions, still allow instant deletion
> of the asdfasdf stuff.
>
> After two weeks, if [[Junk Article]] has a thousand redirs pointing
> to it, deletionists can see "see, we told you so."
>
Heh, that's almost exactly what I just wrote in reply to Vicki. Great minds
think alike, eh? (ignoring the fact that the second half of that expression
is "and fools seldom differ." for now)

Maybe [[Wikipedia:Junk Article]].

-- Jake