Ray Saintonge wrote:
Jake Nelson wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
The tone on Wikipedia seems to be degenerating.
Not that I'm surprised VfD is a nest of hornets. I've thought it a bad
idea from the start.
It's also disturbing that pages that aren't offensive or illegal are
being listed on VfD. There is *no need* to delete stub entries. We have
methods of indicating them as stubs, which is much more constructive
than simply deleting them.
Agreed. Very few of the pages listed have any particular reason to be
deleted. I still believe an altogether moratorium on deletions for a
period
of time would do wonders. Making it so that blanked pages produced
red links
would probably help shoot down one of the arguments for deletion, as
well.
This has my support. VfD seems to have become a nest of control
freaks determined to invent newer, more complicated and more
unworkable rules. It's managing to suck in more and more useful
contributors just to watch these people who are obsessed with
maintaining our bodily humours.
I'm not sure I really see that. There are surely quite a few
contentious issues, but the vast majority of articles are plain nonsense
that *should* be deleted, and generally there is no opposition to their
deletion. Things like self-aggrandizement (someone listing their own
resume, an ad for their website, etc.), just plain factually wrong
information (made-up characters in non-existent books), and so on. I
spend a good deal of time clearing out the resolved issues from VfD
every day or two, and the vast majority of the stuff I clear out of
there is completely non-controversial; the only reason it needs to be
listed at all is to make sure the lister didn't make a mistake
(occasionally something gets listed as self-aggrandizement, for example,
but turns out to be about someone who is notable in some way or
another). But most of the time it turns out to be some graduate
student's resume, in which case after the 7 days deletion is perfectly
reasonable.
-Mark