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

Sun Sep 25 17:58:02 UTC 2005

On 9/25/05, Alphax <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Tony Sidaway wrote:
> > The deletion of one (or even a couple of dozen) school articles doesn't
> hurt
> > Wikipedia. This action may affect the reputation of the administrator
> > involved for a short term, but that also will recover.
> >
>
> The lurking of users on AfD for the sole purpose of voting to keep or
> delete articles /with no thought given to the votes/ does.
>

It would indeed. However your accusation seems to fly in the face of the
evidence. The arguments for and against deletion of schools have been
elaborated over several months. As it happens very few school article
deletion attempts have been successful in the time--a little less than 13%
of all school article deletion listings have resulted in deletion.