On 6/23/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/22/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
What if the page is called "Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Jerry the gay wanker"?
Definitely better than it being in article space.
If it's a bad article, it's better being out of the article space. If it's a good article, it's better being *in* the article space. Some articles created by "anons" are bad, some are good. So putting these articles in another namespace would have both positives and negatives. The positives probably outweigh the negatives, because having libellous content (for instance) in the main namespace is much worse than not having even ten times the amount of good content in it.
I'm simply arguing that AfC is less work for us, the established Wikipedia community, than is putting crap new articles through AfD. It's definitely less convenient for the newcomer.
There's no reason that crap new articles have to go through AfD.
By which you mean that we can either leave them alone, or devise some alternative process for getting rid of them.
Steve
I was referring to the fact that it's certainly *possible* to delete crap without putting it through AfD, and is probably within policy to do so. If it isn't within policy to delete crap started by anons which no registered user would have bothered to fix and move to article space, then the policy is flawed, not the software.
Of course, part of my second idea above was that we not only make it explicitly within policy to speedily delete crap started by an anon, but that we make it possible for the vast majority of established users to do so.
Anthony