[WikiEN-l] Civility poll results

[Ray Saintonge]

Surreptitiousness wrote:
> FT2 wrote:
>   
>> The main obstacle would be getting it used. I can see it being a nice idea
>> but little used, unfortunately.
>>     
> I think if we "abolished" deletion and rather moved articles to draft 
> space, you'd see it used a lot.  Obviously, really bad articles would be 
> deleted, but most of those are caught by csd.  It could liberate the 
> wikipedia, when you think about it.  Mergers may become much more likely 
> to happen, since there would actually be a tangible result in merging a 
> draft space article into a main space article.  I think it has potential 
> if we do reframe afd along the lines of keeping as a main space article 
> and sending to draft space. Cleanup might happen more often.  I'd 
> imagine DRV would become drafts for review.  We might have to loosen the 
> grip WP:N has though, or this could become a tool used to keep 
> "relatively" good articles from main space because of "I don't like it". 
> The idea has potential, it just needs a good salesman and a good grip on 
> pitfalls.
>   

My guess is that it would eventually be used as people found out about 
it, but it could open up a whole new range of problems: competing 
articles, conflicts with existing material on a merger, knowing when to 
get rid of draft articles that have been abandoned by their authors.  If 
someone just wants a quiet space while he is developing an article, how 
does a user sub-space not fulfill this?

Ec