[WikiEN-l] Kill CSD A7!

Sun Nov 12 22:07:10 UTC 2006

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 02:22:30PM -0500, Phil Sandifer wrote:
> 
> 
> On Nov 12, 2006, at 2:06 PM, geni wrote:
> 
> >On 11/12/06, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>Isn't this pretty much exactly the reason we introduced PROD? If we
> >>can get more admins to patrol it, and get people to use it
> >>effectively, it might very well serve as a replacement for A7
> >>
> >>--Oskar
> >
> >Authors remove prods. Then what?
> 
> I've long supported authors not being allowed to remove PRODs, as  
> with CSDs.

I think this is a really bad idea. PRODs get put on articles that are
very new, so few people have probably seen them or got them on their
watchlist other than the author. It will just make many authors, who have
their work deleted with no opportunity to debate it, to go ballistic. I
have yet to have any of my creations PRODed, but if it happened I would 
want to argue why I created it. 

I would also suggest that articles that are put to AfD should not be
speedy deleted. Once thay are there give people a chance to see them and
comment. Maybe only cut short the closure if there are 20 delete "votes"
and no keep "votes". I often see a speedy closure of a AfD debate and
are curious about what was in it.

Brian.

> Best,
> Phil Sandifer
> sandifer at english.ufl.edu
> 
> You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a  
> boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
> 
> >
> 
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