[Flag] Re: [WikiEN-l] Another AfD example -- a serious proposal to fix it

[Travis Mason-Bushman]

On 1/21/06 1:10 AM, "Bryan Derksen" <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:

> The sorts of articles you're talking about above (hoaxes,
> thinly veiled attack pages, vanispamcruftvertisements) are the sort that
> are _obviously bad_, and so under Mr. Nelson's preferences would still
> get deleted.

Except such things are not nearly always "obviously bad." It takes a
deliberative process, at least one that is semi-deliberative, such as AfD,
to make the determination in many cases - unless, that is, you would like to
give admins more speedy deletion leeway - which probably *would* result in
more good articles being deleted, because there simply wouldn't be nearly as
many eyes falling upon them - and Nelson's statement would be true.

As it is today, AfD is far from perfect but it results in these borderline
and questionable articles (is it a hoax? Is it fluff or really something
good) getting eyeballs. It doesn't always work, but I'm waiting for someone
to come up with a better way to do it and so far everyone's just said "it
doesn't work" in 11 different ways.

-FCYTravis