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

Mon Dec 12 11:05:58 UTC 2005

Anthony DiPierro wrote:

> Well, I think I've made it abundantly clear I disagree. Those
>
>mathematical articles should all be referenced.  The person who is in
>the best position to do that is the original author.  Sure, we can
>grandfather these old ones in, but going forward I don't see why we
>can't just put in this information from the beginning.  (And no, if
>you make it optional, people aren't going to do it.)
>
>Articles can always be undeleted.  "Forcing someone" to drop a note on
>an admin page that you'd like a particular article undeleted so you
>can add references to it is just not that significant (especially
>compared to sitting on AFD for 5 days).  And like I said before, I'd
>prefer that anyone can see this deleted text without bugging an admin
>anyway.
>
It seems totally inconsistent to say that a person can always ask for an 
undeletion, but then preferring that the admins not need to be bugged 
with the task.  If they are simply tagged nobody will need to bug the 
admins to do extra work.

Ec