On 5/4/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Wouldn't it be better in this case to say, you know what, we actually have bridge experts, people who know about bridges, and these people ought to be the ones deciding, not random people on AfD.
So how should this work in practice?
One possibility would be to work from the existing WikiProject infrastructure. They already function as the default gathering place for editors working in a particular subject area; why not simply allow them (within reason) to conduct their own deletion discussions?
The major problem here has always been the fact that there's no barrier to creating new projects. We want _established_ communities of people working on a topic making these decisions; at the same time, merely deciding to create WikiProject Controversial Articles shouldn't automatically give someone the ability to control deletion discussions. The obvious suggestion would be to have some manner of community screening process that would determine whether a particular project was in decent enough shape to run a deletion forum responsibly; but there are probably other approaches that could work as well.
Kirill Lokshin