[WikiEN-l] Article deletion

Tue Sep 13 09:28:19 UTC 2005

Anyone is encouraged to vote in Articles for Deletion. I am one of the 
regulars on the Articles for Deletion. One of the issues that has been 
ignored in this debate is that many articles have been improved beyond 
recognition as a result of the Articles for Deletion process. For many 
users, there a number of articles in which they have an intereste nominated 
on one day and none the day after.

We should be encouraging users to participate in the process not 
discouraging them with artificial limits. It seems that many people who 
don't participate in the process are the most vocal about its supposed 
deficiencies. It's a bit like complaining about the quality of the 
politicians that are running the country while you don't vote. 

Keith 

aka User: Capitalistroadster

On 9/13/05, William M Connolley <wmc at bas.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Bryan Derksen wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> How about only permitting people 3 votes per day in total?
> 
> -W.
> 
> William M Connolley | wmc at bas.ac.uk | http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/wmc/
> Climate Modeller, British Antarctic Survey | (01223) 221479
> If I haven't seen further, it's because giants were standing on my 
> shoulders
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