[WikiEN-l] Ec:Rampant Deletionism

Fri Nov 7 20:40:08 UTC 2003

"Adam [name omitted for privacy reasons]" <[name omitted for privacy reasons]@msn.com> schrieb:
> The most useful contributors are busy contributing. Hurrying them to improve an article (or risk deletion)  results in a stressful and counterproductive environment. We should allow editors to work at their own rate; this is a work in progress -- lets not fool ourselves into thinking that this will change anytime soon. 
> 
> If somebody, who adds a poorly-written article to VfD; instead, took 15 minutes to research and improve...the Wikipedia would greatly benefit. 

Then again if an article is put on VfD for being poorly-written, it usually
means it is so poorly written that starting a new article and improving the
existing one are equivalent options. Which means that 'risking deletion' is
not a risk at all.

Andre Engels