[WikiEN-l] Why changing the deletion process is a bad idea

Tue Sep 13 15:45:05 UTC 2005

On 9/13/05, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> AFD is swarming with professional deletionists, and many deleted
> articles were deleted with input mainly from editors whose main
> contribution to Wikipedia is to vote to delete things.  I question
> whether this group of individuals fairly represents the Wikipedia
> community, and therefore whether AFD actually arrives at community
> consensus, except in obvious cases, and therefore call for admins to
> exercise their judgment in evaluting AFDs for whether they reflect
> true consensus, and also for admins to feel free to boldly undelete
> articles that were clearly deleted in a manner which harms the
> encyclopedia.
Name one article that was wrongly deleted in the past 3 days.

--Mgm