This is interesting, but I would like to focus on keeping things that don't really need deletion of Vfd, and trying to get another forum for article cleanup. Cleanup needs to be 'sexed up' somehow though - people seem much more enclined to vote for article deletion than to put effort into deleting it - perhaps awards editors working hardest to save articles from deletion? Mark
--- Robert Dodier robert_dodier@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello everyone!
It turns out that VfD is used as a general forum to determine what to do with an article. Deletion is an option but redirect, cleanup, & copyvio are used as well. So I suggest renaming "Votes for deletion" to "Triage".
The VfD header message can be changed accordingly --
"This article has been listed on Wikipedia:Triage because someone decided it would be a good idea to get some more eyeballs on it."
I'm thinking such a message is more accurate, and also gentler on new contributors, whose articles end up on VfD out of proportion to their numbers.
Maybe "Triage" isn't the best name since it suggests trauma. Any other ideas?
For what it's worth, Robert Dodier (Wile E. Heresiarch)
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