[WikiEN-l] Meanwhile, AfD grinds on

Mon Oct 17 08:37:28 UTC 2005

On 10/16/05, Travis Mason-Bushman <travis at gpsports-eng.com> wrote:
>When you have 150
> AFD noms per day, it is absurd to suggest that there is some sort of
> obligation to explain votes, especially when so many nominations are
> uncontested junk.

"Uncontested" != "junk"

We just had an uncontested deletion of an article, and VFU was about
to treat the application for undeletion with its usual feckless "the
process was followed so keep deleted" idiocy.

Yes, people who think that an article *must* be deleted *should* be
required to explain why.

Every single time.

Why is this a problem?

If this professor Wolters really had been such an inconsequential
fellow, the article should have been redirect to the article about his
college.  If he was more important but still not for an article of his
own then the article could have been merged.

Why are we going around deleting articles like this?  Why are people
seriously suggesting that we're doing it in such numbers that nobody
need even give a reason any more?  That's utterly bonkers.