[WikiEN-l] AFD courtesy problem - alternative proposal

Tue Jan 17 23:30:06 UTC 2006

On 1/17/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
> MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
> > I don't see the need to delete debates and as noted before, it would
> cause
> > problems when linking to earlier debates. And it would be harder for
> newbies
> > to figure out why "their" article was deleted.
>
> Ok, it sounds like everyone disagrees with me and I'm basically
> convinced by this argument.  I don't see much need for random people to
> look at these pages (and probably they almost never do), but certainly
> if newbies just suddenly find their article deleted and can't read way,
> they'll just be a pain in the neck by recreating over and over.
>
> So, I bow to the wisdom of others, and suggest this alternative
> (suggested by others):
>
> 1. blank and protect
> 2. leave the history there, but don't call special attention to it (this
> is so the victims don't feel that the blanking is pointless -- any
> wikipedian, even newbies, will know to click on 'history')
> 3. ask brion to see what he can cook up for blocking search spiders from
> it
>
> --Jimbo
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Do you mean blanking and protecting all VFD/AFD debates on
people/buisinesses that we have on record currently, or to start this
practice right away, and continuing it for only new debates? I think I agree
with geni here, going back to all the former debates and blanking/protecting
is going to take a very large amount of resources in terms of server load
and editor time.

However, I think I generally agree with this proposal. I recently had to
blank a AfD myself because of some hurtful comments about the subject.

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Ben Emmel
Wikipedia - User:Bratsche
bratsche1 at gmail.com
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