[[WP:DRV]]. Allegedly set up to hear procedural cases, it has become a court of appeal whereby procedure is considered sporadically, and more often, where decisions that are unpopular among the main clique that watches DRV get overturned with no further chance of appeal. It has become one of the worst examples of a de facto committee on en, and is far past the point where any of its decisions should be considered binding.
All of our notability guidelines, which fit together to provide a completely ludicrous overall picture. (It's far easier to get onto Wikipedia as a pornographic actor than as a webcartoonist. Or, if you want to ) These are a mess of kludges created to sort out a momentary instance where six or seven articles of a given topic got AfDed in a short time period, leading to a guideline, usually written primarily by the people who wanted the articles deleted. We have, meanwhile, no generalizable criteria for notability, and thus no useful end in sight for these guidelines.
[[WP:RFA]], which, like notability, lacks any consensus anymore on what the overall standards should be, and has thus degenerated into utter madness.
[[WP:FA]] and to a lesser extent [[WP:GA]], which, like RFA, suffer from such a wildly disparate set of standards that the process of passing them is more a process of politics than of actual quality.
[[WP:RS]] still stands, due to the lack of passage of [[WP:ATT]]. It's still as big a problem as ever.
Best, Phil Sandifer sandifer@english.ufl.edu
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On Nov 3, 2006, at 11:43 AM, David Gerard wrote:
What policies/procedures/guidelines on en:wp strike you as just awful? Please list and elaborate.
This could be in any of purpose, current wording, ineffectuality or just being a completely bad idea. Or anything else that makes it just awful.
- d.
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