On Jan 12, 2007, at 16:11, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
I suppose now might be a decent time to trot out an old idea: what about giving WikiProjects a greater role in the deletion process? They are already (for the most part) the natural gathering places for people with some interest in a particular topic (and, by association, some degree of knowledge of it); presumably, we could therefore expect that the consensus of participants in a WikiProject would thus be a little more informed on topics within that project's scope than the consensus of randomly selected editors.
I wonder if holding deletion debates within WikiProject space would be a feasible or good idea. The idea would be creating consensus over whether something was notable/verifiable enough among those familiar with the topic, so as to create a more nuanced debate. A time limit would probably be not such a great idea, but once consensus was reached, deletion could be requested. Of course there isn't a WikiProject for every topic, and not every nominator knows where to find relevant WikiProjects. However, this would curb uninformed drive- by votes and make deletion discussions hopefully more debate and less polling. It'd also be a huge reform to deletion process, which is entirely unwanted if I read community feeling correctly. Oh well.