On 10/23/05, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
- Voting merely expresses a single individual's opinion, but AfD should establish the community concensus.
Nothing to stop you debateing along with voteing. See [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yoism]] for an example
- It is more wiki-like. In the same way as nobody "owns" an article, nobody should embody an argument (but people do embody an opinion and hence a vote). Everybody should be able to edit every argument, such that the valid ones remain.
Have fun trying to inforce that one. Particulary have fun trying to define valid
- You can disagree with the sentiment to keep or to delete, but to do so, you have to explain why (by bringing forward a counter-argument).
Nothing exists to stop you bring forward an argument (indeed I'm currently trying a policy of never voteing and always commenting (which reminds me we never did sort out the copyright issues at [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rochester Community Schools]].
- You can't just disagree with a valid argument; you have to expose a fallacy in it, or provide a valid counter-argument.
Can't find an SI unit for defineing the level of validness of an argument.
- AfD items no longer need to be "closed". The article can be deleted if after five days there are good arguments to delete, but if after 10 days a new argument comes along (e.g. the article has been improved and referenced in the meantime, the person has suddenly gained notability, etc.) the same discussion can be resumed (and "previously deleted as per AfD" would not work as a pro-deletion argument, thereby increasing focus on content and decreasing focus on process).
Can't find an SI unit for measureing goodness. Incerdently if you want battles that go on forever can I suggest you get involved in areas related to the middle east conflict .
- It reduces workload because you don't need to do anything in order to show you agree.
Huh?
- It reduces workload because you have to put more effort into a nomination, reducing the amount of nominations.
That is ment to be a good thing?
Discuss. :) Timwi
Go and spend ten min doing something useful on wikipedia to make up for the time I have just wasted responding to you.
-- geni