David Gerard wrote:
Carbonite wrote:
I'm starting to like where this proposal is going. I have some suggestions that I'd like to throw out for feedback:
- AfD would be turned off for the first two weeks of the month (1st -14th).
- The second week of the month (8th-14th), all mainspace article creation
would be turned off.
- Starting on the 15th, Wikipedia would return to operating as usual (for
the rest of the month). I believe that the result of these changes would be to create a cycle in which more articles were developed into "real" articles rather than remaining substandard. It also cuts AfD's status to part-time. There probably would be a flood of nomination on the 15th of each month, but by this point every article would have had at least one full week to improve and likely closer to two weeks.
I like it. People insist on using AFD as an editorial tool ... let's go with that and really treat it as one.
Add to above: all AFDs to run fourteen days, not five.
I don't know if it will work, but at least it's an attempt at a constructive solution. Any antidote to the poisonous atmosphere is worth considering. I would also couple it with an easier Undeletion process. As long as deletion is a bitter process closure is understandably a welcome result for the deletionists. With a more relaxed process a deletion won't be seen as so much of a campaign, and a general consesnsus for deletion should be more easily achieved. This means that there will be a reduced desire for undeletion. Some articles will still fall through the cracks for various reasons, and we should be more willing to accept these as ordinarty mistakes that anybody can make.
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