Rick wrote:
Fine. I give up. I will no longer list anything to
be deleted, and
I will stop deleting any garbage that any vandals want to add to
Wikipedia.
I don't think being huffy about it is very helpful. Better, I think,
to work for a new system that doesn't make such egregious errors.
"Palestinian views of the peace process" is quite clearly an important
topic -- one of the most important topics in one of the most important
issues of our times. And yet, rather than find a way to work for a
neutral presentation of that issue, VfD resulted in deletion. That's
broken. The material there may have been flawed in some ways (though
I find it to be pretty decent, as a first draft at least), but it was
hardly "vandalism".
On the other hand, deleting "any garbage that any vandals want to add
to wikipedia" is valuable.
Tying the two together is a mistake, I think. When I say that the
current VfD process is broken, I am not thereby endorsing the notion
that we can't justifiably delete vandalism or nonsense.
--Jimbo