On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> {{citation needed}} :-)When votes for deletion was first introduced, there was no fixed time for discussion. Things got listed, and if an admin agreed, it would get deleted. There were no criteria for speedy deletion as we know them today, though they were forming. The one week timeframe was introduced in August 2002 (by the Cunctator, though it seems to have stuck): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion_archive_May_2004&diff=177211&oldid=177189 The timeframe was a minimum for discussion; in practice it seems that some nominations could stay listed indefinitely until an admin got around to making the decision. The one week timeframe was moved into the deletion policy in July 2003: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Deletion_policy&diff=1674649&oldid=1674648 As the whole thing was conducted on a single page at the time, things started to get too crowded with all nominations staying there for a week. There were some discussions through 2003 about shortening the time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Votes_for_deletion/lag_time >From the beginning of October 2003 it was apparently a six-day timeframe, but by the end of the month it was five days: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Deletion_policy&diff=1674735&oldid=1674734 Note also the franchise requirements at the time, and the high thresholds for deletion (at various times either 3/4 or 2/3 majority required for deletion). Beginning April 2004, the problem of VFD growing ever larger (the main reason for going down to 5 days) was partially solved by having each discussion on its own subpage (the current day-log system came in on Christmas 2004). So there you go, a little policy history lesson :) -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
