[WikiEN-l] Proposed: stop all deletes for 6 months, then reconsider

Sat Nov 8 23:14:33 UTC 2003

On 11/8/03 5:08 PM, "James Duffy" <jtdire at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> I agree 100% with Erik.  This proposal is absurd in the extreme. Wikipedia
> finds it hard enough to keep up with the deletion of articles continually. A
> ban for six months would leave a back log of hundreds if not thousands of
> articles that have no place on an encyclopedia but end up surviving by
> default, or else leading to a /massive/ period of deletions unprecedented in
> wikipedia history. It is quite frankly the most ludicrous of ludicrous
> ideas, an unworkable idea that would damage wikipedia. The ''deletionists''
> against ''inclusionists'' argument is utterly bogus. It is a case of those
> who take the idea that wikipedia as an encyclopedia seriously and basic
> standards below which an article is deleted and those who see wikipedia as
> some sort of scribblebox where any sort of rubbish, not matter how bad, has
> a 'right' to be left undisturbed.

I agree that a six month moratorium would probably be counterproductive.

A two-week moratorium on deleting entries that would be placed on VfD, as
originally suggested, is more reasonable and should be the only one under
discussion.