[WikiEN-l] Deletion suggestion

Tue Sep 13 13:31:01 UTC 2005

On 9/13/05, Worldtraveller <wikipedia at world-traveller.org> wrote:
> So how about scrapping afd/vfd and replacing with a system whereby an
> editor may tag an article with a 'candidate for deletion' tag and provide
> a rationale.  Admins can patrol the resulting category, assess each case,
> delete as necessary.  If someone disagrees with the deletion, they can
> either contact the admin who deleted to ask them to review their decision,
> or if they want wider community input there's vfu (which could be renamed
> afu?)
> 
> This seems to me to have the following advantages:
> 1. It would de-centralise the process if people mainly contact the
> deleting admin to query deletions.  This would avoid a giant page of bad
> feeling.
> 2. An article on vfd might only attract 4-5 votes, which is not enough to
> really determine community consensus and so much is kept that probably
> should be deleted when things end with 'no consensus'.  However, if things
> were deleted more quickly and restorations requested on vfu, the vfu
> decision would result in restoration if there was a clear consensus to
> include.  If an article does not attract sufficient community input to
> determine consensus then it would remain deleted.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> WT
> 
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No such descission are much better made by the comunity than admins.
Admins should only make descisions when for logicistical reasons it is
imposible to get wider community input.

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geni