[WikiEN-l] Article deletion

Mon Sep 12 21:35:44 UTC 2005

Jimmy Wales (jwales at wikia.com) [050912 07:47]:
> Phroziac wrote:

> > No, afd just needs to *die*. I still don't see why anyone thought
> > renaming it would fix the problems.

> But die to be replaced with what?
> Deletion is absolutely necessary.  A community process for deletion is
> absolutely necessary.

This seems to carry the implicit assumption that the current mechanism is
the only one imaginable. If so, we're fucked.

Kill it for a month. That month should get people REALLY FOCUSED on a
deletion mechanism that's less toxic than the present one.

- d.