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(a)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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