[WikiEN-l] Wikify, why don't you?, was Re: How to bring back people who don't want to bother?

Thu Jan 12 20:14:41 UTC 2006

>> An excellent article on a marginal topic is kept. A useless article on a
>> marginal topic is deleted. A marginal article on a marginal topic may or
>> may not be deleted. This is as it should be.
>>
> This is clearly your opinion, but you haven't really shown any reason
> for someone with a differing opinion to change his or her mind.

Regardless of the context this is such an excellent sentence that it made
me laugh out loud :) I'll have to keep it somewhere. This is so often the
case and I'm guilty as charged.

> I just don't see the point of spending your time listing something on
> AfD (and thereby taking up a bunch of other people's time as well)
> when you could have spent about the same amount of time replacing the
> article with a redirect or a one-line stub.

If I can replace absolute crap with a one-line stub then, sure, I'll do
that. But using redirects as a sort of pseudo-deletion is something I'm a
bit uncomfortable with.

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I seem to be coming across as some sort of AfD-troll out to decimate badly
formatted marginal articles, or something :) That's not the case at all. I
don't think I've ever brought anything but slam-dunk cases to AfD and I
try to do it as gently as I can. Here's my most recent nomination:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Razz_The_Rabbit

Regards,
Haukur