[WikiEN-l] Re: Proposal on VFD: enforcement of nomination policy

Sun Mar 6 00:09:47 UTC 2005

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 15:28:02 -0800 (PST), Rick <giantsrick13 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> But that's not what's being proposed here.  What's
> being proposed is, if anybody coming into the
> discussion thinks that the reason for the listing
> isn't acceptable, they can just delete it from the VfD
> page.  Why not just let it run its course, and vote
> Keep?  Because radical inclusionists are afraid they'd
> lose the vote.  ~~~~

I don't think that whether we have an article on a subject or not
should be decided by <s>popularity contest</s>mere majority/plurality
voting. Should there not be visible and comprehensible principles that
decide what is encyclopedic and what isn't? I don't think anyone (at
least with any support) is proposing that people everyone should get a
VfD veto, which is what your post implied, but rather that we don't
let adding to the VfD page be something that can be done on a whim. If
popularity was any measure, we'd have a million articles on celebrity
trivia (_not a bad thing in itself_) and no articles in obscure areas
of mathematics, or history.

-nsh