[WikiEN-l] Turn off AfD

Fri Dec 9 17:04:10 UTC 2005

On 12/9/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Also without AFD, there's still too many articles that can't get
> > > speedied because of a technicality. "More than one person bvut still
> > > vanity" and "advertising" come to mind. They're deleted 99% (figure of
> > > speech) of the time and AFD research shows those are the kind of
> > > deletions often uncontested.
> > >
> > > How are we going to get rid of non-speediable crap without AFD?
> > > How is everyone going to have input (the wiki way)?
> > >
> > > Turning off AFD even for one day will cause too much of a mess.
> > > Sure, we can clean it up eventually, but why open your bag of trash
> > > indoors when the garbage man is waiting outside?
> >
> > That's what you think the result of the experiment will be. But we
> > *don't know* because we haven't done it.
>
> True that last bit was my opinion, but we can't speedy something which
> doesn't fit the criteria (that's a fact). You haven't addressed my
> questions on how to deal with crap everyone agrees should be deleted,
> but is not actually speediable (like obvious band vanity, blatant
> adverts and the like).
>
> Can you please address those questions?
>
> Mgm

How do you deal with crap everyone agrees should be deleted, but is
not actually speediable?  Here's a thought - make it speediable!

Anthony