On 2/11/06, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/11/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email)
<alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Who /is/ representative of Wikipedia consensus on
deletion?
No one -- which is why I object so strongly to the idea that deletion should
be treated differently from other edits; or that deletion should be regarded
as "final" because of an AFD, as if "the community" has decided that
an
article should be deleted. That is a farce. An AFD means that the people who
Calling this idea a farce is a bit much.
Please remember that the AFD process guarantees that anyone who visits
the article over the course of a week, and anyone browsing AFD who
care about the subject, will be inclined to read the AFD
discussion/vote. Which is a bit different from "the people who
happened to be looking at AFD at the time".
Mistakes happen via AFD all the time; results should not be immutable;
and the system is very far from perfect. That said, it is better than
a random process
There is no good reason to treat deletion differently
than any other edit.
Any process which involves dozens of people over the course of a week
should naturally be treated differently, and reversed more slowly,
than a single edit by a single user. This applies equally to AfD
results and to FPC/FAC selections.
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++SJ