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

Sat Dec 10 19:13:56 UTC 2005

Brilliant. Really, really fucking brilliant! 
I love it when people express radical and free ideas
which wont ever be tried unless by undemocratic
decree.

The only problem with it is that AFD people are are
there precisely because they are neither good article
progenitors nor good article editors. That's why we
call them "Deletionists" --because that's just what
they do. I attach no value judgement to the name of
"Deletionist" other than any pre-concieved social
prejudice that values creation over destruction.

Ergo, Creativity needs a mirror in Destruction
--taking away such a major function will mean that
those who have over time been driven to AFD (whatever
meaning one may give to "driven") will take their
skills of destruction to articles -- destructive
reverts, rollbacks, cutting etc. 

All of which can be good--dont get me wrong--and
certainly putting doing these in balance is the best
kind of approach. But as they say in Go, a masterful
player will see the difference between a good move and
a bad one as like 'the difference between a feather
and a cinder block.' Not known for their
feather-sensitive sublety --Deletionists need
somewhere to go to do what it is they do.

Stevertigo

--- David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Keith Old wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> Allow article creation in people's userspace. Then
> at the end of the
> month the articles might not suck.
>
> - d.

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