Surreptitiousness wrote: > FT2 wrote: > >> The main obstacle would be getting it used. I can see it being a nice idea >> but little used, unfortunately. >> > I think if we "abolished" deletion and rather moved articles to draft > space, you'd see it used a lot. Obviously, really bad articles would be > deleted, but most of those are caught by csd. It could liberate the > wikipedia, when you think about it. Mergers may become much more likely > to happen, since there would actually be a tangible result in merging a > draft space article into a main space article. I think it has potential > if we do reframe afd along the lines of keeping as a main space article > and sending to draft space. Cleanup might happen more often. I'd > imagine DRV would become drafts for review. We might have to loosen the > grip WP:N has though, or this could become a tool used to keep > "relatively" good articles from main space because of "I don't like it". > The idea has potential, it just needs a good salesman and a good grip on > pitfalls. >
My guess is that it would eventually be used as people found out about it, but it could open up a whole new range of problems: competing articles, conflicts with existing material on a merger, knowing when to get rid of draft articles that have been abandoned by their authors. If someone just wants a quiet space while he is developing an article, how does a user sub-space not fulfill this? Ec _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l