On 6/7/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/6/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 05/0 This is just *stupid*. This is what putting something up for deletion is *for* - saying "This article may be deleted, please look at it and give your opinion" - and there is no more effective way to do it than AFD, for all its faults. I have no idea why you believe someone needs to be personally prejudiced towards deleting the article in order to raise this question
It's a really annoying habit. There are genuinely articles that should be deleted out there. And plenty of others that aren't, but were nominated for crappy reasons. Nominating articles apparently at random, just to give AfD'ers something to think about is just creating work for everyone, with little benefit.
If you're not sure whether an article should exist, use {{nn}} or something and start a discussion on the talk page. Nominating for AfD is saying "This should be deleted, all in favour?!" Not for "What do people think?"
Steve
Yup, again, title the project Articles FOR Deletion, then yell at folks who think it's a project FOR deleting articles.
After all, some folks may be unsure, but no one is nominating articles they think should be kept.
I like how my comments get called "stupid" but my initial reply was censored by the list monitors--posts calling other posters stupid or their comments stupid should be censored first, this would mean that flaming nasty replies to being told your comments are stupid don't have be monitored, because they're not sent. Or maybe it was an admin calling my comments stupid, ala the infamous douche bag episode.
KP