[WikiEN-l] Re: Turn off AfD

Sat Dec 10 02:46:07 UTC 2005

The Cunctator wrote:

>My idea is to treat article deletion like the rest of page editing.
>AfD came about originally because deletion was not reversible, so it
>was necessarily A Big Deal. Once deletion was made reversible (Brion?)
>deletion didn't need to be a Big Deal.
>
>So the elements of my experiment would be:
>1. Turn off AfD.
>2. Make deletion/undeletion a common power.
>3. Follow the rules for edit/reversions to police whether deletions
>are done properly.
>  
>
The problem is that a great deal of policing depends on people using 
their watchlists and/or Recent Changes. Deletion and undeletion show up 
on neither.

--Michael Snow