Call me biased, but I think that if a personal wants to delete a page in the
WP: name space, they should in very limited circumstances. I know that user
pages are not deleted unless they are using it as a personal website or
promoting illegal activities.
If this was over the VFD mess I started, I mainly wanted to ask for the
deletion of the page since when I first read the page, it was not trying to
ask for a change in policy: they were going to do their own thing and
circumvent policy. While I know the VFD will be closed under no-decision,
with many people focusing on the project after the VFD, the project itself
will fail under it's own accord.
Regards,
Zachary Harden
From: Dan Grey <dangrey(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
To: andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk,English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] VfD vs. Wikipedia:
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 17:39:32 +0100
On 20/08/05, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
More to the point - the policy does not exist
"because there is a page
on it". Wikipedia is not, as I believe a guideline says somewhere, a
game of nomic; the existence of hard-and-fast policy is integral to
the system, not just something we happened to write.
Policies are also descriptive, not prescriptive.
I'm sure that, in the early days, there were some "decrees from on
high" from the likes Wales and a couple of others.
Ever since though policy has been more about a record of what happens,
rather than an attempt to change it.
The "how to create policy" page makes a telling point - in the last
two years, only about 5 out of 70 attempts to 'create policy'
succeeded.
Dan