[WikiEN-l] Dealing with crap deletion nominations

Sun Jan 22 19:33:03 UTC 2006

An interesting idea but the research needed to study every single AfD
case, read the discussion and make an informed decision to keep or delete
is far far beyond what a single person can accomplish. We need lots of
experienced people doing that job. Which is exactly the system we
currently have.

I very much encourage David, Tony, Phil and anyone else concerned with the
decisions and discussions at AfD, to participate in the discussions and/or
close nominations. They don't need any special powers beyond those of
normal admins. If you bring up a good case for keeping an article, AfD
will keep the article most of the time. I'd say the biggest problem with
AfD is the labels thrown around - "vanity", "non-notable", "ad" etc. -
nasty to read for the subjects of the articles. Blanking the discussions
after they're done will help a lot.

Regards,
Haukur

> On Jan 22, 2006, at 2:10 PM, David Gerard wrote:
>
>
>> I'm sure everyone would hate my opinions equally.
>
> Which would probably be an excellent indicator of success.
>
> The suggestion is not insincere - if deletion is going to be brought
> back under the control of the guiding principles under which the site
> is run, there is going to have to be some oversight. You suffer from
> A) Having raised most of the issues we are trying to correct, B)
> Intense sanity, and C) Being strikingly moderate on the deletionism/
> inclusionism scale. it seems to me exactly what the page needs.
>
> It may not be what your job or wife need, but you should have thought
> of that before you demonstrated sanity.
>
> -Phil
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