[WikiEN-l] Article deletion

Tue Sep 13 02:04:17 UTC 2005

On 9/12/05, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Alphax (alphasigmax at gmail.com) [050911 14:34]:
> > Phroziac wrote:
> 
> > > 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?
> 
> 
> You have a logical fallacy implicit in that answer: that the only deletion
> mechanism possible is the one we've got. Surely that can't be the case.
> 
> I reiterate my suggestion: suspend the deletion mechanism (keep CSD for our
> remaining sanity) for a month working out a deletion mechanism that won't
> drive people away, cause vicious infighting and lead to unhealable forks
> which can never be pulled back into Wikipedia. Two forks (the Star Trek and
> webcomics encyclopedias) is two too many. 

Then I take it you support the removal of NPOV policy (or have you
forgotten wikinfo?). That is after all the logical end point of your
position.

>I figure a month without it will
> REALLY FOCUS PEOPLE'S ATTENTION.
> 
> 
> - d.

Or we could go the other way and turn all the VFD criteia into speedy
critia which waould really focus the attention of the inclusionists.

-- 
geni