[WikiEN-l] VFU is utterly beyond hope

Sun Oct 16 23:26:15 UTC 2005

On 10/17/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well actually a bad speedy can be remedied by any admin.
>

Technicaly true but if your not an admin VFU is probably where you are
going to end up

> So the only function of VFU is to undelete articles that have been
> processed properly but shouldn't have been deleted even so.
>
> Where did this idea that we needed to check up on admins who failed to
> delete come from?

Every action on wikipedia should be subject to oversite by the
community. You know this.

> About 25-30% of all nominations to AfD fail to result in deletion.
>
> Get over it.
>

Doesn't bother me one iota. 70-75% get over it.

> VFU's function is not to deal with those problems.  Its function is to
> look at the articles deleted and see if they were, in fact, actually
> good articles.
>

Since when?

> And undelete them!
>
> Why doesn't it do its job?

Since people redifined its job.

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geni