Well, what's the point in blanking a page? The history would still be retained and it doesn't save any space.
Anyway, I want to correct a few misconceptions. AFC people aren't overworked the way deletion admins would be because AFC work doesn't require admin abilities. The overworkedness is simply due to the fact only a small number of people are tending to it. If my initial message can get more people interested in joining the workload for each individual person would go down.
Also, good suggestions occasionally get lost when a newbie somehow blanks the page. I wanted RC patrollers to be on the look out for this to save some good articles. AFC patrollers are too busy in looking at the entries themselves that they often don't note blankings. RC patrollers would see that, but so far never acted.
Lastly, I prefer the current situation to anons being able to create new pages. It's easier to evaluate a suggestion and post it if it's good than to spend half an hour deleting unsuitable entries from the main namespace.
Mgm
On 6/9/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/9/06, maru dubshinki marudubshinki@gmail.com wrote:
Flushing the archives isn't a particularly good idea, because good articles *do* get lost in AFC. Now, if we had some mechanism to mark each day as "Done", then that would be another thing.
Done is the same thing as "we have extracted all the good articles out of this mess", isn't it? Marking the page as done would be the same blanking it.
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