[WikiEN-l] I better shut up (was vfd RFC)

Fri Aug 5 01:49:27 UTC 2005

Technical salvation: 

Voting on *article quality rank* will allow for some
degree of handling. People might even be able to
mass-delete entire ranks of low-quality articles,
provided theyve seen enough votes. The difference
being that its not from removed from the article at
VFD, but part of the article's local aspects, just
like discussion, watch, etc. This removes the need for
executioners, and leaves only the trashtakers, who
dont need to argue, if they follow the guidelines.
Central lists would be viewable via sorted RC.

SV

--- Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:

> David Gerard wrote:
> 
> >I'm not sure the current operation of VFD could
> fairly have been predicted
> >early enough to strangle it at birth. We need a
> deletion mechanism, but not
> >this one.
> >  
> >
> It seemed to work well enough for the 8-10 months I
> was actively 
> involved in voting/discussing/closing entries there.
>  There were still 
> complaints, but mostly from "inclusionists" who
> disliked it simply 
> because it was a venue for deleting articles.
> 
> Is it significantly worse now, or just scales badly,
> or have the 
> inclusionists simply gotten louder voices?  I must
> confess I haven't 
> messed with it in 6 months or so just because I lost
> interest in most 
> meta-pages and went back to writing articles. =]
> 
> -Mark

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