On May 3, 2006, at 12:54 AM, Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
Jesse W wrote:
On May 3, 2006, at 12:18 AM, Pete Bartlett wrote:
I know we already put {{afd}} tags on pages, but I think it should be mandatory to alert article creators on their talk page that an afd has been started on their article.
Er. [[WP:OWN]]? Images are an exception, as nearly all images are the work of one or two people at most. Articles are not. Articles can, and often are, watched. Wikipedians ought to pay attention to their watchlists if they wish to express opinions about their contributions.
More often than not, people who have made major contributions to an aritcle will have some knowledge on the subject, and their input will be helpful.
Sometimes, and in that case, dropping a note on the talk page of *those* people (whether they *started* the article or not) is a good and useful thing that a prospective nominator, or interested voter on AfD should do. Other times, quite often, the article will only *consist* of minor contributions (i.e. a stub) and/or the content of the article will demonstrate the contributor's lack of knowledge of the subject.
It is amazing how often AfD debates do not benefit from the opinion of the original creator.
It is not amazing. Most people do not feel the need to continue to respond to questions about their contributions to Wikipedia after they have contributed them. This is unsurprising.
I throughly oppose a requirement to notify people who have expressed (through not using their watchlists) a desire not to continue discussing their contributions.
How many articles are on your watchlist? Do /you/ check every edit that appears on your watchlist?
As of now: 482 items with 78 changes in the last 3 days. Do I check all the contributions that include an edit summary like "{subs:afd}", "nomiating for deletion", or something like that? Yes, and I don't think that's too much to ask. If you have so much on your watchlist that you can't do that - take some things off your watchlist.
Jesse Weinstein