[WikiEN-l] Afd nominations

Sun Oct 2 23:11:33 UTC 2005

As silly as it is to cling to process over content when we're writing
an encyclopedia, I can see their fear that VfU could become AfD take
2.  I don't really want another AfD, but the whole "it's only about
process" mantra reeks of a beauracratic culture.

Laurascudder

On 9/30/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/30/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/30/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Sounds very like an obsessive deletionist who's more concerned with
> > > process than product. AFD seems to encourage that sort of thing.
>
> >  Have you tried visiting Votes for undeletion lately?  I did so recently and
> > argued for undeletion of an article.  I was asked if I was addressing the
> > content or the process.  Why the content, of course, I said.  I was then
> > told that this wasn't what VFU was for.  Sure enough, the phrase in the
> > undeletion policy that refers to Wikipedia being a better place with an
> > article than without was nowhere to be seen on the page.  I updated the
> > instructions *directly* from the undeletion policy.  This was reverted
> > several times.  Some people claimed that policy had been changed.  I pointed
> > out, by reference to the actual policy, that it hadn't.  Whereupon a
> > proposal to change policy was made--to exclude any reference undeletion
> > based ona judgement that the content was good for wikipedia.
> >  At that point I decided it was time to leave people who wanted to play
> > silly buggers to get on with it.
>
>
> That's really breathtakingly stupid behaviour. I suppose I'm going to
> have to look and find who these morons are.
>
>
> - d.
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