[WikiEN-l] Re: Crap vfd nominations

Fri Sep 30 08:48:53 UTC 2005

"SPUI" <drspui at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:433C9D3A.2030005 at gmail.com...
>I have speedy kept the following vfd nominations, and been threatened with 
>a block:
[snip]
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Flemington_Circle
> "This is one of three traffic circles in Flemington, New Jersey, a village 
> of 4000 people. Pilatus 18:34, 29 September 2005 (UTC)"

Not wanting to inflame the situation or anything, but of the four you 
listed, only the above-mentioned article looks anything like a keeper.

One article has already gone, having pretty much established consensus, and 
the others are approaching that: neither is actually a "traffic circle" any 
more.

> What the fuck is with people?

One suspects they are at a loss as to why Wikipedia needs an article on a 
traffic circle which isn't even there any more, having been replaced by a 
set of traffic lights. Unfortunately none of the articles (except that for 
Flemington, which looks interestingly like "Hangar Lane" here in England) 
manages to establish just WTF is so interesting about these particular 
traffic circles.

I have to admit the term "roadcruft" is calculated to stimulate extreme rage 
in a targetted editor: it smacks entirely too much of "I never heard of it 
so dump it". It's a "lazy bastard" phrase and should be stricken from the 
record and replaced with something substantive.

To paraphrase something I read in a book somewhere (Miles Vorkosigan IIRC) 
you don't come to Wikipedia to learn about stuff you already know, you come 
to learn stuff you **don't** already know.

HTH HAND
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]] 