[WikiEN-l] AfD Threshold being Revised Downward Again?

Tue Sep 20 20:11:12 UTC 2005

On 9/20/05, Geoff Burling <llywrch at agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
> 
> is there a certain point where contributors will find it far easier to 
> work on existing articles than to contribute new ones? (This is a problem 
> that I doubt we'll encounter until Wikipedia reaches somewhere between 5 & 
> 10 million articles, but I think it is a potential problem.) If there is 
> such a tipping point, we may find that AfD (in whatever form it has at the 
> time) not only will be able to keep up with the flow, but may actually 
> reduce the size of Wikipedia!
> 

If this should ever become a serious problem, the GFDL ensures that the 
information removed can be copied and retained indefinitely.