[WikiEN-l] Delete vs salvage (was: Context and POV (was: Effective bullying strategy))

Sun Jan 11 00:36:12 UTC 2004

Jimbo wrote:
>I agree.  But if the topic is _itself_ valid, then the right thing to
>do with a bad article is to fix it, not delete it or redirect it.
>It's usually pretty easy to go to an article, and move the bad parts
>to the talk page along with a courteous request for more
>documentation, or rewriting of some biased terminology or whatever.

As I said before; if the article contains only chaff and no wheat then an edit 
link is more informative (the validity of the topic is a side issue). 
Sometimes this cannot be determined by just one person or other times the 
amount of wheat in the heap of chaff just isn't worth the effort to salvage - 
thus the VfD process is invoked. But of course if that process results in 
somebody fixing the article (which it often does), then great. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)