On 9/16/05, Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:
We all know about "POV warriors." I'm fortunate or wimpy enough not to have been involved in articles with serious long-standing POV wars, but my impression is that _for the most part_ these things seem to stay under reasonable control.
On the other hand, I think we are developing "topic warriors" who feel that a specific subject area deserves very detailed coverage, systematically watch VfD for any cases where articles on their pet topic are nominated for deletion, and oppose deletion of _any_ article on their topic on principle, regardless of the quality of the article.
If you're talking about Wikiprojects, better get the asbestos underwear ready... However, I've also seen many articles on AfD improve immensely and end up being kept simply because someone knowledgable on the subject of the article came along and improved to the point where it was no longer suitable to delete the article.
We don't neccesarily need to keep a deletable article until it's improved. If people want to improve coverage by fixing deletable articles, all they have to do is go through old deletion listings and create valid articles.
Usually the content of deletable articles isn't needed to create a nice article/stub. If it is, temp undeletion or history undeletion requests can be placed.