[WikiEN-l] Article deletion

Mon Sep 12 02:50:14 UTC 2005

>From: Angela <beesley at gmail.com>
> > For the benefit of those of us without the relevant cultural
> > background, what *is* the pure wiki deletion system?
>
>The basic idea is that a page is "deleted" by being blanked by any
>user. See 
>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pure_wiki_deletion_system_(proposal)

Well, that sounds like a recipe for edit warring - in fact, page blankers 
are typically viewed as vandals.  Is there something un-wiki about trying to 
find consensus on the matter on a special page devoted to those kinds of 
discussions - say, something like AfD?

Jay.