[WikiEN-l] Undeletion policy

Fri Sep 16 14:14:50 UTC 2005

>From: Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com>
>
>There is a serious problem with undeletion policy, rendering it 
>incompatible
>with other Wikipedia policies.
>
>
>Firstly undeletion requires a majority (50%). Wikipedia is not a democracy,
>we should do changes by consensus.

I'm not sure why people continue to try to make this false distinction.  On 
Wikipedia, "consensus" means a majority of editors agreeing with one option, 
ranging from 66% to 80%, depending on the issue.

>Secondly the undeletion policy is inconsistent with deletion policy. The
>main principle of deletion policy is "if in doubt, don't delete". It 
>follows
>that a consensus should be required to keep a page deleted.

The second premise doesn't follow from the first.  The fact that someone 
might want to have an article undeleted does not necessarily mean there is 
any doubt it should have been deleted.  As well, when something is deleted 
that means there was a consensus it should have been deleted; VfU is not 
intended to be "AfD round two"; if it's just another AfD, then it should be 
consolidated into AfD and deleted.

Jay.