On 12/28/06, Ilmari Karonen nospam@vyznev.net wrote:
George Herbert wrote:
I see people claiming this, but the fact is that the majority of PROD nominations go uncontested and result in a deletion.
PROD is working. So is A7, but PROD seems to be far less controversial...
Call me cynical if you like, but I rather suspect the main reason for this is that the waiting period is short enough that most "drive-by" article creators don't even notice the PROD until it's over and the article is gone. So, in that respect, there's little difference between PROD and just speedy deleting the article outright. (Other differences do exist, and are quite significant, of course.)
Then again, maybe I should just be happy that it does work. Never look a gift horse in the mouth, and all that...
Yeah. I can think of all sorts of ways for aggressive bad people to muck with WP within our policies, but PROD "just works" well enough, it seems.
A lot of our stuff would break in the face of determined hostile action. PROD included, under current rules. So far, so good, though.