[WikiEN-l] VFU is utterly beyond hope

Mon Oct 17 01:03:42 UTC 2005

On 10/17/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are we writing an encyclopedia or running a beetle drive?  We have
> somehow arrived at a system that pits well-meaning, bureacratic
> ignorance against the only force that can ever gainsay it: pure
> self-absorbed, unflappable belief that good stuff shouldn't be
> deleted.
>
> The unanimous vote to delete that article can only possibly mean one
> thing: we've got a real problem on AfD. it's become a means by which
> information is removed from Wikipedia for no other reason that brute
> ignorance.
>
> If pointing this out offends you, I'm sorry.  There is no pleasant way
> to put that bad news.

We've got problems everywhere. The question is which ones to worry
about the most and how bad the side effects of adopting certian
solutions would be.

Incerdently the article has been deleted again (take one sip). Did we
ever decide if the 3RR applies to deletion?

--
geni