[WikiEN-l] Why AFD just does not work

Sat Jun 17 01:24:38 UTC 2006

On 6/16/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> WP editors and admins seem to be largely inclusionary, so you've
> already lost many of those battles.  When you lose it by a landslide
> because of a bunch of energetic Star Wars fans' it's making another
> more unfortunate point as well.  In a sense, every time AFD is misused
> in this manner, trying to "clean up" an article on a valid topic by
> AFDing it and perhaps recreating it, it brings disrepute to the
> process and a lot of "no" voters in.  We would be better off if such
> AFDs weren't called in the first place.  AFD should be the last final
> response to an unsalvagable article after you've tried cleanup tags,
> getting involved in cleaning it up, and asking other editors to help
> if the article's usual editors feel too much ownership and keep doing
> unencyclopedic things.

Thank you.

Will someone copy this down and maybe add it to the top of the AFD page?

Ryan