[WikiEN-l] Re: Deletion policy needed

Fri Oct 24 17:05:39 UTC 2003

Jake Nelson wrote:

>The Cunctator wrote:
>
>>The tone on Wikipedia seems to be degenerating.
>>
>>Not that I'm surprised VfD is a nest of hornets. I've thought it a bad
>>idea from the start.
>>
>>It's also disturbing that pages that aren't offensive or illegal are
>>being listed on VfD. There is *no need* to delete stub entries. We have
>>methods of indicating them as stubs, which is much more constructive
>>than simply deleting them.
>>
>Agreed. Very few of the pages listed have any particular reason to be
>deleted. I still believe an altogether moratorium on deletions for a period
>of time would do wonders. Making it so that blanked pages produced red links
>would probably help shoot down one of the arguments for deletion, as well.
>
This has my support.  VfD seems to have become a nest of control freaks 
determined to invent newer, more complicated and more unworkable rules. 
 It's managing to suck in more and more useful contributors just to 
watch these people who are obsessed with maintaining our bodily humours.

Ec