[WikiEN-l] Proposal: Article Improvement Weeks! (was Turn off article creation AND deletion.)

Sun Dec 11 14:24:34 UTC 2005

On 12/10/05, Keith Old <keithold at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the idea of a heavily promoted Article Improvement Week is a useful
> one.
>
> However, there is no reason to turn off AfD. Indeed, often the reason that
> articles are in AfD is that the topic is notable but the article is crap for
> various reasons including:
>
> * short and lacking context;
>
> * bogus articles on legitimate topics;
>
> * lacking references.
>
> My main focus in AfD is looking for articles that can be improved and turned
> into encyclopedia articles. There is no reason that AfD cannot form part of
> Article Improvement Week.
>
For one week Articles for Deletion is renamed Articles for Improvement
(symbolically, if actually moving the page would be technically
problematic), and there's no voting or page destruction, just
discussion of how to improve the article :).

Anthony