[WikiEN-l] The AfD saga

Fri Sep 30 15:52:14 UTC 2005

Tony Sidaway wrote:
> Actually I don't think it can be fixed. I am convinced that it could be
> safely wound down provided a procedure for dealing with hoax/unverifiable
> articles was instituted along the same lines as
> Wikipedia:Copyright_Problems.
> 
> Or we could leave it as it is. It's only processing an average of 112
> articles a day (based on a recent 3-month survey) and only around 70-80% of
> those are deleted. This is piddling compared to our site growth figures and
> utterly dwarfed by the immensity of the existing database. So it's no more
> effective at whatever it is people think it's for than if we had a script to
> randomly delete 100 smallish articles with low edit counts every day

And we come full circle... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RANDEL