Ed Poor wrote in part:
I don't like deleting "pages". If I find
a horribly written article, but
it's a topic of interest (to me or to potential readers) -- then I think
it's a better use of community time to:
* take 5 minutes of my own time to google it into a
stub; or,
* take 15 to 30 minutes and whip it into shape (e.g., by refactoring)
Rather than:
* take 2 minutes of my time to list it on votes for
deletion
* take up huge amounts of others' valuable time by 'inviting' them to
figure out whether to "keep" or "delete" it.
This is a very interesting perspective.
It takes /you/ much more time to improve an article than to list it on VfD.
But it takes /the community as a whole/ much less time if you work on it.
So you are to be commended for being so altruistic.
OTOH, how can we give other people an incentive
to take the same route that you are taking?
-- Toby