[WikiEN-l] Next experiment: switch off AFD for a month. (wasGuardian in defense of Wikipedia)

Thu Dec 8 16:10:15 UTC 2005

>
> Right.  And "trash" is more akin to speedy deletes, which is
> altogether different.  AfD candidates are rarely hurting anyone; just
> out of place or against one or another content policy.


>Looking at the huge number of articles on AfD that are unanimously
>deleted, I'm not sure how else to describe them other than "trash". These
>articles may not be as bad as speedy deletes (the decaying food that will
>cause a stench if not quickly removed), but that doesn't mean they should
be
>kept. What we need is a process to efficiently remove articles that
>currently receive 100% support for deletion on AfD. If these articles no
>longer had to go through AfD, I think we probably could scrap the whole
>thing and send the volunteer garbagemen packing.

Carbonite
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I think this has a lot of potential to help with efficiently removing
articles that
currently receive 100% support for deletion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_reform/Proposals/Uncontested
_deletions