[WikiEN-l] Article deletion

Tue Sep 13 13:24:30 UTC 2005

> Revert wars wouldn't get very far due to the 3RR - it would force
> people to come to a *consensus* over whether or not to include an
> article, rather than just voting. I bet most deletions wouldn't be
> controversial (just as a lot of AfD listings aren't opposed). I don't
> see how having vandalism in page histories is a problem.
> 
> Dan

The 3RR is not massively effective in stoping revert wars. if you have
an article that runs down the fault line between inclusionist and
deletionist camps then it will have no effect whatsoever (well in
theory it could turn wikipedia into a straight democracy).

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geni