[WikiEN-l] AfD suggestions

[charles matthews]

 "JAY JG" wrote


> >From: "charles matthews" <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>
>>
>>Certainly one of the current problems with AfD is what to make of users 
>>who have been on WP for all of, say, 48 hours, and reckon that they have 
>>an eye for articles they think should not be in the encyclopedia.
>
> And one the main problems AfD is meant to address is how to handle the 
> articles created by users who have been on WP for all of 10 minutes and 
> reckon that they have an eye for articles they think *should* be in the 
> encyclopedia.

I don't give the symmetry much credence.  It's good if bad articles are 
caught quickly, and deleted if they _really_ can't be cleaned up and 
salvaged.  But it is unlikely that substandard articles, by their mere 
existence, will cause the offence that attempts to delete articles on valid 
but 'obscure' topics can.  The potential damage to the community of erring 
is asymmetric here.

Charles