[WikiEN-l] Dealing with crap deletion nominations

[Tony Sidaway]

On 1/22/06, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Rob (gamaliel8 at gmail.com) [060123 10:04]:
> > On 1/22/06, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
> > > My proposed idea remains: shut down AFD/DRV for a month. Make it three
> > > months.
>
> > Only if we expand the speedy deletion criteria accordingly.  We really don't
> > want to deal with a three month backlog of garage bands and ads for Bob's
> > Muffler Shop.
>
>
> Straw man. Wikipedia runs 4000 new articles/day, 2000 of which are shot on
> sight; AFD is maybe 200 articles a day *nominated* at present, which is a
> trickle by comparison. It really will not make substantial difference
> unless people start nominating to make a point. Which is shooting
> behaviour.
>


You are channeling me!  Stop it!