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From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of The Cunctator
The current situation is such that if I unlisted a page
right away for
any reason, Wikipedians such as Fuzheado and Angela would
strenuously
object and
consider my action an egregious breach of protocol.
I strongly believe that just in the same way we
formally state that we
trust people to immediately delete utter nonsense, we need to
formally
state that
we trust people to immediately take acceptable content
off of the Votes
for Deletion page.
Just to give a flavour of current practice he is a short exchange I had
on Talk:VfD this week
As per current policy it's ok to remove pages from VfD before 7 days if
they're obviously fixed isn't it? Pete 00:20, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
:Yes. For some value of "obvious". Martin 00:21, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
::As long as you can justify it when someone objects and asks you to
explain. Probably if someone objects, they should just relist it though.
Angela 00:33, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
I have removed plenty of fixed or non-broken articles from VfD over the
months, and never been pulled up on it. If you are getting pulled up on
it, its because the articles _are_ contentious and need to be debated.
Perhaps you are being too bold?
Pete/Pcb21