On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:46 AM, David Goodman <dgoodma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I do not consider that trivial. The deletion of improvable articles > because the small number of participants at AfD who are interested > and willing to rescue them is one of the reasons for people losing the > interest in Wikipedia. Who after all actually wants to come to > articles for deletion, but those who want to delete articles. > > Good point. I've often thought something like 'jury duty' for newcomers, after your first few weeks editing but before you stop being flagged as a 'newb' by the site software, might involve a few days of sharing your common sense at AfD. Though I still like the idea of changing the name to Articles for Review, encouraging eveyryone who likes cleanup to hang out there, and turning AfD into the much faster-process group that figures out /how/ to properly delete articles that have no other option. [so anyone could close an AfR discussion, but only people with delete rights could close AfD; they'd have to know how to decide whether or not to delete talk pages, &c &c. ] Ryan Delaney opines: > I agree. Pure Wiki Deletion is the only permanent solution. Now that's a lovely perennial idea. There's no point in hard deleting any article save to protect private information in the history. You can pure wiki delete; or even pure wiki delete and protect the blank page; but removing the work done from view of interested passers-by is wholly unnecessary. SJ > David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG > > > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Ok, here's a hypothetical. Let's say out of any twenty given AfD's > > that close as "delete", it turns out we get one "wrong". Is that > > acceptable? Deletion is hardly the end of the world in itself... > > > > Steve > > > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l