Listing on VfD is not equivalent to deletion.
My experience is that very few if any articles are ever deleted through VfD that should not be. Those cases and most borderline ones then have the option of VfU.
VfD is really about trying to get the community opinion about an article's inclusion. Options other than straight keep or straight delete are often used too -- in this case, merging into one article.
-Matt
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:17:13 -0700 (PDT), Mark Richards marich712000@yahoo.com wrote:
This highlights to problem of deletion. In the case you are talking about, someone should very much have boldly edited this as redirects. If this had happened to be wrong, people would have seen it, and it could have been put right through wiki process.
Deletion is a totally different beast, it removes the information, and, for most users, even the evidence that it was ever there, removing the possibility of process to improve the information.
Mark
--- "Carson, David" DCarson@nine.com.au wrote:
Ed Poor wrote:
If there are a dozen or 6 dozen separate, tiny
articles with a common
theme, then why not:
- Copy the text of each article into one new
comprehensive article (like
[[List of Apprentice contestants]]
- Turn the text of each old article into:
#REDIRECT [[List of
Apprentice contestants]]
This is how Maveric asked me to handle the
Simpsons, way back when...
That's what I voted for, and indeed, that was the overwhelming consensus of the VFD vote, and is what has been done.
And indeed, that could have been boldly done by someone without needing a VFD vote. But I would say that (a) there would have been a guaranteed edit war following it; and (b) there WAS a definite minority opinion that these people didn't deserve to be in the Wikipedia AT ALL, being merely "game show contestants".
Me, I see the whole affair as further proof that VFD is not at all broken, and continues to excellently serve the community.
Cheers! David...
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