[WikiEN-l] Deletion suggestion

Thu Oct 27 08:38:46 UTC 2005

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Worldtraveller wrote:

>So how about scrapping afd/vfd and replacing with a system whereby an
>editor may tag an article with a 'candidate for deletion' tag and provide
>a rationale. Admins can patrol the resulting category, assess each case,
>delete as necessary. If someone disagrees with the deletion, they can
>either contact the admin who deleted to ask them to review their decision,
>or if they want wider community input there's vfu (which could be renamed
>afu?)

What you're proposing is more or less "pure admin deletion" -- the
idea that admins should get to decide what articles are deleted, and
fight it out amongst themselves. I think this moves the balance of
power even further away from the general populace of editors in an
unfair way. There is nothing that says a non-admin's opinion about
what should be deleted is any less valid than that of an admin.

Beyond that, there is no practical advantage to this over pure wiki
deletion, because in PWD, admins would still have control over what
articles stay deleted because they would be the ones with the power to
protect a deleted article. I envision that this would happen rather
commonly, and would be the simple solution to the edit wars that the
doom sayers are always prophecizing would occur under PWD. If an admin
is certain that a bad article should stay deleted, he or she will
delete and protect it. There is simply no drawback to this. All the
problems that exist in PWD also exist under AFD. The only difference
is that we lose the bureaucracy, we lose the drama, and we lose the
sense of finality that AFD gives to deletion.

Ryan
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