[WikiEN-l] Afd nominations

Fri Sep 30 16:12:52 UTC 2005

On 9/30/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/30/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Sounds very like an obsessive deletionist who's more concerned with
> > process than product. AFD seems to encourage that sort of thing.

>  Have you tried visiting Votes for undeletion lately?  I did so recently and
> argued for undeletion of an article.  I was asked if I was addressing the
> content or the process.  Why the content, of course, I said.  I was then
> told that this wasn't what VFU was for.  Sure enough, the phrase in the
> undeletion policy that refers to Wikipedia being a better place with an
> article than without was nowhere to be seen on the page.  I updated the
> instructions *directly* from the undeletion policy.  This was reverted
> several times.  Some people claimed that policy had been changed.  I pointed
> out, by reference to the actual policy, that it hadn't.  Whereupon a
> proposal to change policy was made--to exclude any reference undeletion
> based ona judgement that the content was good for wikipedia.
>  At that point I decided it was time to leave people who wanted to play
> silly buggers to get on with it.

That's really breathtakingly stupid behaviour. I suppose I'm going to
have to look and find who these morons are.

- d.