On 3/31/07, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
Locking down new article creation while we do a cleanup is sensible; Afd would be less like a sewerage drain and we could then judge the status of the cleanup by the, hopefully diminishing, number of Afds being raised.
Or AfD could be shut off too, starting one week after article creation is shut off.
During this time, creation of new articles could be restricted to admins, and non-admins could use WP:AFC.
They could use it as a temporary storage place, but if you're going to let people submit new articles through WP:AFC and then have admins create new articles based on those submissions, it seems you're just redirecting efforts from one type of creation to another, and adding more work in the process.
It would be more tedious, but it would further encourage a culture of writing articles that fit within our policies and guidelines. Regular contributors can write userspace articles and submit them to WP:AFC in order to request that they are moved into the main namespace by an admin.
I don't see the point of that. If you're going to stop article creation, stop it. Admins can still create or move articles if they feel there are special extenuating circumstances, but giving them the task of reviewing and approving ordinary article creations defeats the whole purpose, which is supposed to be to free people up to fix what's already there.
Anthony