On 2/14/07, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
Just an idea I have been bouncing around for deletion nominations.
If a user, any user either with an account or anonymous wants to nominate an article for deletion. Instead of posting directly to AFD, he instead enters the name of the article and the reason he thinks it needs to be deleted into a web form. The nomination then goes to a "deletion preview" team who can take one of several actions...
This looks like a step in the right direction. Wikipedia (or really, MediaWiki) has very few "procedural" links in its interface. It takes a lot of knowledge to know that you should type "WP:AFD" in the search box, then follow further, fairly intricate and error-prone instructions. It would be a hell of a lot easier if there was just a "Suggest this article for deletion" button on every article, that would walk the user through a deletion wizard like you describe.
A whole menu of buttons at the top or bottom of each article would be useful: - Suggest this article for deletion - Report a problem with this article (discussed several months ago) - Edit this article (for consistency) - Recategorise this article (another new front end to categories, possibly with commonsenes?) - Suggest a new article (a front-end to WP:AFC) - Make a donation (why not :))
General theme: "What do you want to do" links in addition to the current "What do you want to know" links.
Steve