[WikiEN-l] Article deletion

Tue Sep 13 14:14:41 UTC 2005

>From: Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca>
>
>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.

The last thing we need is a group of specialists who actually care about 
what kinds of articles are encyclopedic, and fall within Wikipedia's mandate 
and policies, and what kinds are not?  Who aren't actually emotionally tied 
up in the subject matter, but instead are able to view the topic with 
dispassionate reason?  Instead we should leave decisions about these things 
to one-off partisans who create articles on their narrow areas of interest 
(e.g. the band they just founded, or flags which are red white and blue and 
have stars on them)?

I find that argument difficult to accept.

Jay.