[WikiEN-l] Turn off article creation AND deletion.

Sat Dec 10 03:00:11 UTC 2005

On the other hand, you could make both groups unhappy as there are plenty of
topics that we don't have articles that are worthy of articles.

Regards

Keith Old

Keith Old
User:Capitalistroadster

On 12/10/05, Daniel P. B. Smith <wikipedia2006 at dpbsmith.com> wrote:
>
> How about this for an experiment: turn off article creation _and_
> deletion for a while? Freeze the table of contents (not that we have
> one)...
>
> So that all anyone could possibly do is to edit existing articles?
>
> It would force everyone to pay attention to the articles that exist
> already, and with 857,833 of them you'd think people could find
> something worth their attention.
>
> With deletion being impossible, AfD would become unnecessary... as
> would DRV. So, that should make one faction happy. On the other hand,
> there would be no opportunity to add subtrivial topics. (Or trivial
> topics, or significant topics). That should make another faction happy.
>
>
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