[WikiEN-l] Re: One Where We Blew It

Thu Sep 8 17:50:56 UTC 2005

What's his username? I'd like to slap him with a cluestick. Er, I
mean, ask him politely to use English in vfd nominations.

On 9/8/05, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Jack Lynch wrote:
> 
> >This thread is a very good argument for getting rid of VfD. The main
> >thing I (and everyone I know who reads it) like about the wikipedia is
> >the access to detailed information on absurdly obscure info. If
> >someone searches for a web comic, it instantly becomes notable and
> >encyclopedic. What are the deletionists thinking??? Wiki is not paper,
> >and if you keep deleting, it won't be anything special as far as
> >encyclopedias go, either.
> >
> >
> Amazingly, I'm in full agreement with Sam. :)
> 
> Just the other day I stumbled across an article on VfD for which the
> entire text of the justification given for its nomination was:
> 
> "NN, D"
> 
> I'm hardly a newbie, but even for me it took a few minutes to figure out
> that "NN" meant non-notable. I checked the edit history of the editor
> who'd made the nomination and found about a dozen identical VfDs for
> other articles made at the same time. I voted "keep" on every last one
> of them because in my opinion the _nominations themselves_ were not
> adequate. I didn't even bother reading the actual articles and for all I
> know based on the justification given the nominator hadn't read them
> either - he apparently didn't even bother to take the time to type out
> whole words. Got accused of violating WP:POINT, of course, but I
> completely stand by my actions.
> 
> How about a policy whereby VfDs that don't adequately explain why the
> nominator made it can be summarily deleted? If someone proposes deleting
> an article they should at least show that they put effort into
> determining whether deletion was warranted.
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