<<From: White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.n...@gmail.com> I am sorry I still do not get it. 1) Is your proposal going to completely hide "unfinished" articles from the public? If so who will be able to see them? Admins? Users?>>
To hide those articles which are unfinished, or which the community has decided are unfinished. So the AfD process becomes simply the "Hide It process" much less contentious. <<2) How would you decide which article is ready for public consumption or not? A process like "requests for publishing"?>> Everything gets published as normal, until someone flags it and then you would have a process just like AfD, except the end result would simply be to hide it, not delete it. <<3) Isn't your proposal hiding all stubs as well as some other articles? After all no stub by very definition is ready for "public consumption".>> No. It has nothing to do with stubs or non-stubs. Stubs are published today, and they would be published tomorrow. The only thing this does is provide a way for AfD to turn into something with less conflict. <<4) I am not "ready to accept" anything I am forced to accept. Your tone implies I have no other choice to either accept your proposal or mass deletions. Mass deletion itself has no consensus behind it and is disruptive.>> You always have a choice. When you are going 60 mph toward a lake and need to turn either left or right, you have to decide fairly quickly to avoid a more perilous result. <<5) You seem to have a workable idea but perhaps need to organize thoughts a bit.>> Thank you. A sentiment reflected by countless others before you. Will Johnson _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
