[WikiEN-l] Renaming VfD now under discussion...

Thu Aug 26 23:53:52 UTC 2004

Just keep in mind that renaming/reorganizing VfD will have serious
implications as it ripples through the rest of the other languages.
Make sure the system does not get more convoluted or depends on much
more instruction reading.

-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:09:13 -0700, Sean Barrett <sean at epoptic.org> wrote:
> dpbsmith at verizon.net stated for the record:
> 
> > I got enough of an encouraging reception on this list to have started a
> > discussion about it at
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Votes_for_deletion
> >
> > There does seem to be support for renaming VfD and rewriting the VfD page
> > notice, so I want to concentrate on that part of my proposal.
> >
> > And my campaign slogan for the change is: as we currently present VfD, some
> > newbies are feeling _bitten_ when they should really only feel _barked at._
> 
> How 'bout "Campaigns to Obliterate Inadequate Articles and Humiliate
> Their Worthless Authors"?  We're dealing, after all, with a Very Serious
> Issue[tm].  The presence of a less-than-perfect article threatens to
> rend the very fabric of the space-time continuum, to say nothing of
> utterly annihilating Wikipedia as we know it....
> 
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