[WikiEN-l] Article deletion

Tue Sep 13 00:34:01 UTC 2005

Dan Grey wrote:

>Spot on. Personally, I favour the PWDS because it would take deletion
>out the hands of the folk who just hang around on AfD, and quite
>possibly end the majority democracy which seems to be the norm on AfD.
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Hear hear. Instead of moving VfD to AfD, we might as well have moved it 
to "Wikiproject Deletion." The last thing we need is a group of people 
who _specialize_ in deciding what articles are allowed in Wikipedia. The 
small, obscure articles don't get many people from outside the VfD 
regulars to consider the matter.

>Of course, PWDS will never be installed, as the entrenched AfD zealots
>will never concede to any change that threatens their pastime.
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The one-month VfD suspension Gerard suggested to force serious reform 
might be workable, if we do it in a somewhat more organized manner than 
Ed Poor's heroic deletion of VfD. I haven't been paying a lot of 
attention to the VfD reform effort until just recently, do you think 
perhaps we could get together a posse capable of making such a thing stick?