On 1/21/06 1:10 AM, "Bryan Derksen" bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
The sorts of articles you're talking about above (hoaxes, thinly veiled attack pages, vanispamcruftvertisements) are the sort that are _obviously bad_, and so under Mr. Nelson's preferences would still get deleted.
Except such things are not nearly always "obviously bad." It takes a deliberative process, at least one that is semi-deliberative, such as AfD, to make the determination in many cases - unless, that is, you would like to give admins more speedy deletion leeway - which probably *would* result in more good articles being deleted, because there simply wouldn't be nearly as many eyes falling upon them - and Nelson's statement would be true.
As it is today, AfD is far from perfect but it results in these borderline and questionable articles (is it a hoax? Is it fluff or really something good) getting eyeballs. It doesn't always work, but I'm waiting for someone to come up with a better way to do it and so far everyone's just said "it doesn't work" in 11 different ways.
-FCYTravis