KNOTT, T wrote:
From: Jimmy Wales wrote:
VfD is completely broken. I say that here for emphasis because I think we really should get rid of it entirely.
So do I. The very idea of deleting people's work, that they have freely given, is insulting, off-putting to newbies, and non-collaborative. I suggest that we delete VfD and use cleanup instead.
Have you looked at the crap that's been deleted lately? Much of it *was* on Cleanup first, sometimes for over a month, and most of the rest either doesn't belong here, or is such terrible nonsense as to be useless as a savageable starting point for a future article.
A sampling: [[JumpTheCroc]], an idiosyncratic term coined on Wikipedia [[Mac OS XI]], a made-up mac rumor that even the mac-rumor sites don't carry [[The mo]], an animal invented by the submitter with a somewhat amusing backstory [[Soylent Greens]], a fictitious political party invented by the submitter
etc.
So I disagree; I think VfD is working perfectly fine. Do those who think otherwise actually read and participate in it (The Cunctator excepted, because I know he does)?
-Mark