[WikiEN-l] How to do something about AFD

Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoekstra at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 16:23:02 UTC 2008


On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:13 AM, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> The coordinated attempts seem to be going in both directions.  If one
>  group of people can join to delete articles without all of them
>  necessarily even reading them, others can do similarly to keep them.
>  At present the process is set to favor the deletors. Perhaps some of
>  the people objecting to efforts to support articles want to continue
>  it that way.  The keepers are not disrupting the process, they are
>  trying for equal treatment.
>
>  The first step in reform would be to not merely permit but require
>  fair notice to all groups and individuals interested in an
>  article--notice before the discussion even begins, to minimize the
>  effect of immediate pile-on deletes.  The second would be to make
>  repeated attempts at deletion symmetrical with repeated attempts to
>  re-insert: to require prior permission from a separate process for a
>  second AfD after a keep.
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>  On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Charlotte Webb
>  <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On 3/10/08, Martijn Hoekstra <martijnhoekstra at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  > It is just that a coordinated effort to change the outcome of a
>  >  > handful AfD's is disruping the process of AfD...
>  >
>  >  Can you think of a process more sorely in need of coordinated disruption?
>  >
>  >  —C.W.
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If one group of people gangs together to delete articles, then they
have to stop. If another group gangs together to put up keep votes,
then they have to stop aswel.



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