On 9/15/05, dpbsmith@verizon.net dpbsmith@verizon.net wrote:
It frosts me when people on EITHER side make short, curt, dismissive comments in AfD that consist simply of a vote and a _generic_ remark, like "Delete, nn website," or "Delete, [whatever]cruft," or "Keep, all [whatever] are inherently notable," or "KEEP! Of course. Why would anyone want to delete this?"
It's lazy, it's polarizing, and it tends to push AfD in the direction of being a vote (bad) rather than consensus-building discussion (good).
Count the number of articles that go up to AFD every day, and ask yourself if you think its reasonable that everyone write a paragraph - or even a short explanation - on everything they vote for. Simply *voting* on everything would take an hour a day at least. Demanding a detailed explanation from every vote would only reduce the amount of communication because people would stop voting. If you want to fix that, you either expand the CSD, so stuff that doesn't need deliberation won't waste everyone's time, or you implement pure wiki deletion, so this whole problem goes away entirely. Right now, if band and business vanity, link spam, personal essays, and neologisms were all covered by CSD (which they aren't), you could cut the amount of articles going up to AFD by up to 1/3. - Ryan