[WikiEN-l] Votes for Deletion

Wed Nov 26 22:25:44 UTC 2003

Martin Harper wrote:

>>We should trust users to remove pages from VfD
>>
>that should *obviously* not be deleted
>
>We already do this. However, we only do this where there is consensus, or the 
>expectation of consensus, that the page should obviously not be deleted. Basically, 
>you can remove a page from VfD whenever you are confident that nobody will object 
>to your removal.
>
This is sophistry in support of a reverse onus..  The onus must remain 
on those who want the article deleted.  This attempts to shift that onus 
on those who want the reference removed from the VfD.  The attitude of 
the deletionists toward what should be deleted is a lot more severe than 
mine, and I simply don't trust them.

Ec