On 3/31/07, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)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