Except that it's often difficult to determine whether something is nonsense or not.
Putting it on Vfd instead of flagging it for speedy deletion allows the community to
develop a consensus on whether it is valid. Take [[Paul Buissonneau]], which RickK
mentioned, as an example. I listed this on Vfd because it sounded like either vanity or a
fictional person. Now, the subject has been verified as a real person, the article has
been rewritten, and I have motioned to keep the article. If I had just flagged it as a
speedy delete candidate, an administrator would probably have given me the benefit of the
doubt and deleted it, preventing Wikipedia from gaining another informative article.
--Slowking Man
----- Original Message -----
From: Timwi<mailto:timwi@gmx.net>
To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org<mailto:wikien-l@wikipedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 2:00 PM
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: VfD is broken
Rick wrote:
And what do we do about articles which CAN'T be
"improved"? What do we
do with such articles as [[Demish]], [...]
I haven't had a look at the others, but ... wow. This really is some
interesting piece of fiction. :-) Now, of course, the question is, is
there actually such a thing as "Demish" (language or anything else)?
If not, then I agree it should be a speedy deletion candidate.
If yes, then it should be replaced with a stub about the Real Thing™.
Timwi