[WikiEN-l] deletionism in popular culture

[Ian Woollard]

The best thing to do with this kind of thing is just to try it on a
random subset of AFDs. If it works, scale it up, if it doesn't, kill
it.

On 06/11/2009, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Surreptitiousness <
> surreptitious.wikipedian at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ryan Delaney wrote:
>> > imes, as with fast-developing current events, there are eyewitness
>> > accounts that get added to the article before they appear in printed
>> > news
>> > sources. In these cases, it's better to remove the content and wait for
>> the
>> > verifiable source. Pure Wiki Deletion allows us to do that easily -- we
>> can
>> > blank the page, and then restore it when citations become available.
>> >
>> Pure wiki deletion would need a culture shift though, wouldn't it?  I
>> mean, you'd have to get that bot turned off which reverts page blanking,
>> for starters. But I'd definitely be willing to give it a go.
>>
>>
> I think it definitely would require a massive cultural shift, and it would
> be best to "feel out" the climate before diving headfirst into making
> proposals.  Frankly, deletion process is so entrenched at this point that
> serious reform will always be a long shot, and that's why my intuition is
> that we should be prepared for this to take months- or years. There are a
> lot of people who don't read this mailing list who will get hives when they
> find out that someone wants to take away their precious rules. If and when
> we do move forward with this, we should prepare the ground for these folks
> before we go live with proposals and RFCs. I'm all ears if there are any
> suggestions for a gameplan of getting this done.
>
> - causa sui
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-Ian Woollard