Stephen Bain wrote:
On 8/4/05, neil klopfenstein rebrane@gmail.com wrote:
The worst thing about VfD, in my opinion, is that once an article is listed, it "can't" be merged/redirected/whatever else. It seems like the majority of the articles on VfD are either no-brainer speedies or no-brainer merges.
My idea for a comprehensive VfD reform: create a 'problem article' tag which replaces {{vfd}} and {{d}}. Admins can delete these articles if they're problematic, editors can remove the tag if they substantially rewrite the article or redirect it. Anything that keeps the problem article tag for a week gets deleted.
Someone could tag an article {{vanity}}, for example, and an admin could delete it on sight, just like articles tagged {{delete}}, as long as it was clearly a vanity page. The ambiguous ones (and there are relatively few of those) could be shuffled off elsewhere, and dealt with on an individual basis.
I like that idea.
I don't see how this idea will be able to deal with the case load. Almost a thousand articles are nominated to VfD each week, and for the vast majority of them, rightly so. More likely, the tagged articles would just get forgotten and dropped into the abyss, I think.
- Ryan