[WikiEN-l] Article deletion

Tue Sep 13 00:42:34 UTC 2005

On 13/09/05, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> 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.
> >
> >
> 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?

Had you done it a month ago... but people may be resistant to a second
major upheaval in a couple of weeks, given the mutterings about the
last one.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk