[WikiEN-l] Re: Deletion policy needed

Fri Oct 24 17:35:07 UTC 2003

> From: Ray Saintonge
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 1:06 PM
> To: English Wikipedia
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Deletion policy needed
> 
> 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.
> 
Aren't blanked pages indicated by a special color indicating stubs now?