On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 16:35:26 -0500, Phil Sandifer
<Snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
[[WP:DRV]]. Allegedly set up to hear procedural cases,
it has become
a court of appeal whereby procedure is considered sporadically, and
more often, where decisions that are unpopular among the main clique
that watches DRV get overturned with no further chance of appeal.
Rarely. Few are overturned and deleted, I think slightly more are
overturned and undeleted, but in most cases it seems to me to be
people bitching about deletion of fundamentally unverifiable articles.
All of our notability guidelines, which fit together to
provide a
completely ludicrous overall picture. (It's far easier to get onto
Wikipedia as a pornographic actor than as a webcartoonist. Or, if you
want to ) These are a mess of kludges created to sort out a momentary
instance where six or seven articles of a given topic got AfDed in a
short time period, leading to a guideline, usually written primarily
by the people who wanted the articles deleted. We have, meanwhile, no
generalizable criteria for notability, and thus no useful end in
sight for these guidelines.
Again, I think this is nonsense. Most of them seem to be written by
the people who want the crud *included*, which is why we have such a
farcically low bar to porn "stars".
[[WP:RFA]], which, like notability, lacks any consensus
anymore on
what the overall standards should be, and has thus degenerated into
utter madness.
Yup.
[[WP:FA]] and to a lesser extent [[WP:GA]], which, like
RFA, suffer
from such a wildly disparate set of standards that the process of
passing them is more a process of politics than of actual quality.
Never managed to get an article to either, mainly I think because it
needs a number of interested editors who are determined to see their
article in lights; not many people are interested in [[Giovanni
Punto]].
[[WP:RS]] still stands, due to the lack of passage of
[[WP:ATT]].
It's still as big a problem as ever.
What, people's refusal to find decent sources? Sure is.
Guy (JzG)
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