[WikiEN-l] Re: VfD is broken

Sat Sep 4 21:22:33 UTC 2004

Why don't we encourage whoever listed the item in the first place to
remove the item if it was inappropriate? Leave a note on the person's
talk page asking them to remove it or remove it yourself and then
allow the person the option of relisting it if he still disagrees. Of
course, if we have a good number of people voting "delete" then the
listing should obviously not be removed, but when consensus
overwhelmingly to keep, what is the point of keeping the item listed?

Jiang

On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 10:35:28 -0700, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> 
> That's nice in theory.  Still, there is a clique that tends to scream
> bloody murder if you remove things before they feel the time has come.
> Some of us would be glad to remove such items from the list as soon as
> they appear, but are not prepared to face all the bitching without backup.
> 
> If a member of the deletionist clique puts something on VfD he has
> immediate backup from his colleagues based on their mutual trust.  For
> the rest of us the amount of time required to properly deal with these
> issues is a huge distraction from positive contributions.
> 
> I don't know if more policies will help.  A fair and consistent
> applications may be more beneficial.  Maybe anyone who has been around
> for at least a year should feel free to remove anything from the VfD
> without having to run the gauntlet.
> 
> Ec