On 14/07/07, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
To go towards fixing this, we should make notifying
the original author
about deletions mandatory;
The AFD regulars have consistently held this to be far, far too
onerous. I suspect there's some presumption of bad faith in there as
well, because monitoring for crap does produce a bit of a siege
mentality.
(Remembering that most of what gets deleted really is *complete crap*.
We're concerning ourselves on this thread with the false positives.)
we should hold admins to a higher standard in
writing descriptive edit summaries when they delete an article;
I shall try to be more flowery in my deletion summaries.
we should
encourage *all* regular editors to review prods and afds (not just the "afd
regulars");
I urge all those here who have not done so to go through
[[Special:Newpages]]. Read one day's load of the thing, and remember
that those are the articles that *survived*. THE HORROR. THE HORROR.
we should rewrite the help pages on deletion so it is
*really
obvious* what is going on (since that is where normal people get sent, and
the pages are a clusterfuck of contradictory documentation currently);
As far as I can tell, the stage of trying to get one's way on
Wikipedia by playing WikiNomic kicks in between three to nine months
in. Some never get out of it.
AFD has long been the site of WikiNomic trench warfare. We're talking
Belgium early 1918 here.
and
we should seriously consider a proposal like SJ's where articles are shunted
into a "what do we do with this" queue instead of automatically going to
deletion when there are serious concerns.
It is a very nice suggestion. Now to make it fly.
- d.