[WikiEN-l] Crap vfd nominations

Fri Sep 30 22:03:09 UTC 2005

MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:

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The problem with saying that "the reasoning is what's important" is that 
it leaves in up to the discretion of the closing admin to say who had 
good reasoning and who didn't. That means the admin is basically 
deciding what the result will be, because anyone who disagrees with his 
or her reasoning will have "bad reasoning" and their vote discounted. 
You might as well close AFD and let admins speedy whatever articles they 
want.

Which is something I'm not entirely averse to, as a system. It might be 
better than this, where a few people who sit in AFD all day have power 
over what lives and dies, and their decisions are regarded as final. At 
least if an admin speedies an article, another admin can restore it. But 
here, if 20 people vote to delete because of "roadcruft", that decision 
is legitimated in the eyes of the community. This is why I'm in favor of 
something like pure wiki deletion, or admin-only pure wiki deletion. 
Deletion should never have this air of finality that AFD gives to it.

- Ryan