[WikiEN-l] Why AFD just does not work

Sat Jun 17 10:46:06 UTC 2006

On 6/17/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> You seem to think that AFD is a big joke because we have bad articles
> surviving.  My point, and several others point, is that we have bad
> articles on appropriate encyclopedic topics survive AFD, and my
> argument is that that's entirely proper since we should be doing
> cleanups on them instead of arguing about deleting them.  When you

Right. If we deleted all the "bad" articles on Wikipedia, it'd be a
much smaller place. We should only delete the "inappropriate"
articles: unnoteworthy or unencyclopaedic subjects, and the odd
copyvio or defamation.

Steve