On 3/24/06, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/24/06, David Gerard
<fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
You appear to be asking for a cure for blithering
idiocy. There is no cure
for such, particularly on AFD.
Sure there is - well written policy helps. Even if 10 blithering
idiots vote to delete a page, if the 11th points to the rule which
clearly rules out deletion in the particular case, then hopefully the
admin is sensible enough to ignore the 10. If the 11th is only
screaming "use common sense!" then he won't get far.
In my early days at Wikipedia I was told about an editor who, in
closing AfDs, actually decided to go by the deletion policy. He got
into quite a lot of trouble.