[WikiEN-l] Re: Experiment on new pages

Wed Dec 7 16:40:08 UTC 2005

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 10:25 -0600, Kelly Martin wrote:
> On 12/7/05, Steve Block <steve.block at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> > > I still want to change AfD to explicitly be a "quality assurance"
> > > function.  Right now it's slanted toward deletion by its very name,
> > > and I'm not sure that's a good thing.
> >
> > Articles needing Verification?
> 
> Any serious problem, be it a lack of verification or referencing,
> needing major cleanup, or just not suitable for inclusion.  The
> problem right now is that AfD is being used for all of these things,
> but it's *called* "articles for deletion" and so the process is
> prejudiced toward deletion when it really needs to be about ensuring
> quality.

Will you stop whingeing about this.

Design a process that merges AfD with the other article improving
tagging (maybe an unsalvageable tag or a nocontent tag on a scale
that includes unverified and needs wikifying, and has the general
improvement tags in) and a process that examines a queue of all
these articles.

Or shut up.

Justinc