The tone on Wikipedia seems to be degenerating.
Not that I'm surprised VfD is a nest of hornets. I've thought it a bad idea from the start.
It's also disturbing that pages that aren't offensive or illegal are being listed on VfD. There is *no need* to delete stub entries. We have methods of indicating them as stubs, which is much more constructive than simply deleting them.
RickK wrote: No, no, no, no, no! Kill that obnoxious Cleanup proposal. It's
impossible to understand, and unworkable.
RickK
user_Jamesday user_Jamesday@myrealbox.com wrote: To cut the traffic on VfD, list on Cleanup for two weeks first if it
isn't actually harmful (offensive or
illegal, not tasteless or dictionary) to have it around for that
time. And tell the most prominent creators
it's been listed there for more work so they can do that work if
they want to.
This gives time for the debates to start and maybe finish before
things arrive at VfD. Also time for the
people who are inclined to work on articles to do that before they
use the more time-consuming VfD process.
Would be nice not to see newbies getting educated instead of listed
on VfD an hour afer starting work on a
page as well.
Once those steps have halved the demand for VfD there won't be a
need to cut the time things stay there.
Cleanup might need to switch to one page per day of the week but
that's less painful there because there's
no deadline.