[WikiEN-l] Article deletion

Sun Sep 11 04:31:28 UTC 2005

Phroziac wrote:
> On 9/11/05, Alphax <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>charles matthews wrote:
>>
>>>It has never been pretty; but the current complaints on the deletion
>>>mechanism seem to be about Gresham's Law.  Roughly speaking, the
>>>'clueless newbie' approach is orthogonal to the 'right stuff' for the
>>>job, which is to know what help constructs WP, and what is fluff or
>>>actually detrimental.
>>>
>>>What to do?  If GL is the basis reason - the people with informed
>>>judgement being also those who can easily find better things to do on
>>>the site, then it needs configuring.  Subdivide by type of reason for
>>>deletion?  By area of topic?  A smaller 'room' can be a friendlier
>>>atmosphere.
>>>
>>>It seems to me that a basic point that borderline cases are _not_ the
>>>most significant; a marginal keep is one that is not great for WP.
>>>
>>
>>I'd actually like to see AfD split by topic area, as recently happened
>>with the Reference Desk (and happened with the Village Pump long ago).
>>
> No, afd just needs to *die*. I still don't see why anyone thought
> renaming it would fix the problems.
>

So you don't think that any articles need to be deleted (outside of
candidates for speedy deletion), ever?

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