Brilliant. Really, really fucking brilliant! I love it when people express radical and free ideas which wont ever be tried unless by undemocratic decree.
The only problem with it is that AFD people are are there precisely because they are neither good article progenitors nor good article editors. That's why we call them "Deletionists" --because that's just what they do. I attach no value judgement to the name of "Deletionist" other than any pre-concieved social prejudice that values creation over destruction.
Ergo, Creativity needs a mirror in Destruction --taking away such a major function will mean that those who have over time been driven to AFD (whatever meaning one may give to "driven") will take their skills of destruction to articles -- destructive reverts, rollbacks, cutting etc.
All of which can be good--dont get me wrong--and certainly putting doing these in balance is the best kind of approach. But as they say in Go, a masterful player will see the difference between a good move and a bad one as like 'the difference between a feather and a cinder block.' Not known for their feather-sensitive sublety --Deletionists need somewhere to go to do what it is they do.
Stevertigo
--- David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Keith Old wrote:
On 12/10/05, Daniel P. B. Smith
wikipedia2006@dpbsmith.com wrote:
How about this for an experiment: turn off article
creation _and_
deletion for a while? Freeze the table of contents
(not that we have
one)... So that all anyone could possibly do is to edit
existing articles?
It would force everyone to pay attention to the
articles that exist
already, and with 857,833 of them you'd think
people could find
something worth their attention. With deletion being impossible, AfD would become
unnecessary... as
would DRV. So, that should make one faction happy.
On the other hand,
there would be no opportunity to add subtrivial
topics. (Or trivial
topics, or significant topics). That should make
another faction happy.
On the other hand, you could make both groups
unhappy as there are plenty of
topics that we don't have articles that are worthy
of articles.
Allow article creation in people's userspace. Then at the end of the month the articles might not suck.
- d.
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