On 1/21/06 1:10 AM, "Bryan Derksen" <bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
The sorts of articles you're talking about above
(hoaxes,
thinly veiled attack pages, vanispamcruftvertisements) are the sort that
are _obviously bad_, and so under Mr. Nelson's preferences would still
get deleted.
Except such things are not nearly always "obviously bad." It takes a
deliberative process, at least one that is semi-deliberative, such as AfD,
to make the determination in many cases - unless, that is, you would like to
give admins more speedy deletion leeway - which probably *would* result in
more good articles being deleted, because there simply wouldn't be nearly as
many eyes falling upon them - and Nelson's statement would be true.
As it is today, AfD is far from perfect but it results in these borderline
and questionable articles (is it a hoax? Is it fluff or really something
good) getting eyeballs. It doesn't always work, but I'm waiting for someone
to come up with a better way to do it and so far everyone's just said "it
doesn't work" in 11 different ways.
-FCYTravis