[WikiEN-l] Article deletion

Tue Sep 13 14:18:11 UTC 2005

JAY JG wrote:
>> 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)?
> 

But they're not allowed to have a Union Jack on them, belong to a
country formerly ruled by Spain, or be in any way derived from the Flag
of the United States?

Yep, I think I'll go make [[List of countries which are not the United
States of America or one of it's allies]] right now.

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