[WikiEN-l] Deletion vs discouragement (was Artwork samples)

Fri Apr 1 16:32:18 UTC 2005

Sean Barrett (sean at epoptic.org) [050402 02:18]:

> Most importantly, if I persuade Laura to give away some of her late 
> husband's work, will her generosity be welcomed to Wikipedia, or will it 
> be promptly nominated for deletion as non-encyclopedic 
> Wikipedia-is-not-a-gallery Hugo-winning-art-cruft?

This is a problem. VFD is Wikipedia's immune system, but it's beginning to
discourage people from actually writing stuff.

I would also like to call people's attention to an arbitration case in
progress concerning VFD submissions. Comments on the relevant talk pages
are probably in order.

- d.