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

Tue Sep 20 21:44:55 UTC 2005

On 9/20/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> Bottom line: AfD doesn't scale. Whatever problems may exist with AfD's
> tendency to randomly delete a selection of perfectly reasonable articles,
> and VFU's growing unwillingness to rectify this, the problem will decrease
> in significance in the long term as page creation rates accelerate
> inexorably beyond the reach of AfD, and possibly even any defensible
> extension of speedy deletion.
> 
> Perhaps requiring editors to sit a short examination on deletion policy
> would help to keep inappropriate nominations down and increase the overall
> capacity of AfD, but this would not address the problem of scale.
> 
AFD only doesn't scale for people who want to vote on all listed articles.
Only vote for articles that need the votes and to ones where you can
add something to the discussion. Based on a stable amount of around
100 listed articles on a given day, it should take a voter over an
hour-and-half to go through all the nominations which is just not
possible.(This assumes they spend at least 1 minute checking the
article and formulating their vote).

If anyone can get through AFD and vote on all nominations under an
hour (as someone previously stated in some AFD discussion on this
list), either they're only checking speedy deletable articles, or
they're not giving the article due attention.