"Delete on sight" is unwiki, and violates
several of our core
policies that supercede BLP including NPOV and CIVIL and their
subordinates.
True, but I see a lot of articles at new page patrol that also violate
NPOV, CIVIL, or both. "I run this great business" is POV, not to
mention SPAM. "Emily smells funny" violates CIVIL, and probably NPOV,
too. It's astonishing to see how obvious somebody will violate
Wikipedian article standards because they don't know what they're
doing, and I wish there was a more civil way to fix that problem
besides speedying their article and leaving them a "Welcome to
Wikipedia! Your first article really sucks!" temp message.
Emily
On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:55 PM, stevertigo wrote:
Andrew Turvey<andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
Clearly whether we allow "deletion on
sight" or require proposers
to improve articles first makes a big difference to whether this
backlog will ever be cleared.
A couple ideas:
1) "Delete on sight" is unwiki, and violates several of our core
policies that supercede BLP including NPOV and CIVIL and their
subordinates. "Speedy" concepts also tend to promote uncivil behavior,
such that people occasionally will do things like not read what they
want to delete ([[WP:MFD/SV/ONS]]), and try to close ongoing MFD's
([[WP:DRV/SV/ONS]]) and even ANI's ([[WP:RFAR/DPP]]).
2) As far as getting backlogs cleared up, we have a large number of
people coming through the penal system (misnamed "Arbitration," for
some reason) who may choose to do work as part of the agreeable
remedy. In fact, if Arbcom starts shaping up in accord with the
dynamics of creativity and invention, such as in some imaginary
scenario wherein they were free to interact and act autonomously, then
it will be fairly easy for the community, through them, to get people
to work on the menial tasks that others like myself just will not do.
-Stevertigo
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