[WikiEN-l] Re: AFD only doesn't scale for people who want to vote on all listed articles.

This is pretty much what I do. My interest in AfD waxes and wanes, but if I look at AfD at all, you may take it as given that I have glanced at every discussion for an entire day. I probably participate in less than one in ten. *I don't participate if there is already obvious consensus and it's clear which way the discussion will go. (But if it's important to me I will put it on my watchlist). *I don't participate if I truly am indifferent to the outcome of the particular nomination. *I don't participate if I am not in a position to make an informed judgement, _and_ the subject is of so little interest to me that I can't spare ten minutes to start to educate myself about it. *I _do_ participate if it's something that is _almost_ a speedy and there are only a couple of votes there already. (FIRST POST!!!!) *I _do_ participate if I'm aware of possessing some relevant fact about the article or topic that has not already been mentioned by another participant. *I _do_ participate if I click on the article and it makes a very different impression on me than it made on the nominator. *I _do_ participate if the article arouses my curiosity. (I enjoy improving/rewriting/"rescuing" AfD's _if it's a topic that happens to pique my interest_.) *I'm afraid that I _do_ participate if I see a number of "votes" that give no rationale, or a bad rationale. These are probably my least useful comments. -- Daniel P. B. Smith, dpbsmith(a)verizon.net "Elinor Goulding Smith's Great Big Messy Book" is now back in print! Sample chapter at http://world.std.com/~dpbsmith/messy.html Buy it at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1403314063/