[WikiEN-l] vfd

Sat Jan 10 13:34:29 UTC 2004

> Have you looked at the crap that's been deleted lately?  Much of it 
> *was* on Cleanup first, sometimes for over a month, and most of the rest 
> either doesn't belong here, or is such terrible nonsense as to be 
> useless as a savageable starting point for a future article.
> 
> A sampling:
> [[JumpTheCroc]], an idiosyncratic term coined on Wikipedia
> [[Mac OS XI]], a made-up mac rumor that even the mac-rumor sites don't carry
> [[The mo]], an animal invented by the submitter with a somewhat amusing 
> backstory
> [[Soylent Greens]], a fictitious political party invented by the
> submitter

Look at [[List of nicknames for George W. Bush]] that article was also
deleted. :-(

> So I disagree; I think VfD is working perfectly fine.  Do those who 
> think otherwise actually read and participate in it (The Cunctator 
> excepted, because I know he does)?

Some chose to work inside the system others outside it.

BL