[WikiEN-l] An idea for deletions

[Oskar Sigvardsson]

On 2/14/07, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just an idea I have been bouncing around for deletion nominations.
>
> If a user, any user either with an account or anonymous wants to
> nominate an article for deletion. Instead of posting directly to AFD,
> he instead enters the name of the article and the reason he thinks it
> needs to be deleted into a web form. The nomination then goes to a
> "deletion preview" team who can take one of several actions...
>
> 1. Speedy delete. Only for obvious no doubt speedy deletion
> candidates, nonsense pages and troll pages. Example "Jimbo Wales is a
> bonehead" or "list of glups that glip".
>
> 2. Speedy keep. Article is definitely not a candidate for deletion ie
> some bozo nominates "George W. Bush" or "Star Wars". Also could be
> used to keep articles with a strong keep consensus from being
> constantly renominated by a troll.
>
> 3. Bounce back. The nominator (if a registered user) will be asked to
> resubmit the nom. ie "please be more specific then "fancruft" or
> "unencyclopedic""
>
> 4.Pass to ADF. Only then does the nomination go to AFD and only then
> does the article get tagged.
>
> 5. Rewrite by previewer. The nomination as written is invalid but the
> previewer notices something else about the article that bugs him.
>
> I think such a system would reduce the load on AFD but still allow us
> to deal with problem articles promptly.

Just FYI, when the discussions about deletion where at their peak
(right after Ed Poor deleted Votes for Deletion, boy was that an
interesting night to be in #wikipedia), the page [[Wikipedia:Deletion
reform]] was created. There's tons of different ideas there for how to
handle deletion. Some of them makes for quite interesting reading.

--Oskar