[WikiEN-l] Re: Afd "votes" with no real reasons given

Thu Sep 15 20:34:11 UTC 2005

Ryan Delaney wrote:
> 
>  Count the number of articles that go up to AFD every day, and ask yourself 
> if you think its reasonable that everyone write a paragraph - or even a 
> short explanation - on everything they vote for. Simply *voting* on 
> everything would take an hour a day at least. Demanding a detailed 
> explanation from every vote would only reduce the amount of communication 
> because people would stop voting.
>  If you want to fix that, you either expand the CSD, so stuff that doesn't 
> need deliberation won't waste everyone's time, or you implement pure wiki 
> deletion, so this whole problem goes away entirely. Right now, if band and 
> business vanity, link spam, personal essays, and neologisms were all covered 
> by CSD (which they aren't), you could cut the amount of articles going up to 
> AFD by up to 1/3.

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