[WikiEN-l] WTF? Is it suddenly OK to ignore consensus on AfD?

Sun Sep 25 05:59:40 UTC 2005

Were they sockpuppets? Are they anonymous? Are they banned? If not,
why should they count more than

"Delete another primary school of utter nonimportance."
"Delete. A non-notable public school."
"Delete. Usual reasons"
"Delete yet another completely nn school"

No matter how you spin it, this call was ridiculus.

--gkhan

On 9/25/05, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/25/05, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> >
> > In the meantime, though, I've checked the VfD in question:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Crescent_Park_Elementary_School
> > and it appears that the basic complaint is true - this was clearly _not_
> > a consensus to delete. It's very clear that it isn't, too, since as
> > pointed out there's actually a clear majority of votes for keep/merge
> > versus delete. I'm putting this on VfU, but really, I think this should
> > be a speedy undelete.
>
> While I don't necessarily agree with the decision (I think there was
> no consensus either way), one can see how some of the votes might have
> been given greater weight than others. For example:
>
> "Keep, we winning the fight aginst school deletionism."
> "Keep. I heard from Aranda56 that we needed more votes for this article."
> "Keep I heard from Radman's sisters' aunts' brothers' cousins'
> girlfriends' sister that this needed to be kept!"
> "Keep."
>
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> Stephen Bain
> stephen.bain at gmail.com
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