On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Fastfission wrote:
Um, so what exactly are you proposing is the procedure here? I should just rely on my (your?) judgment about when NPOV is being trumped by community lack of consensus?
I suspect David was attempting to use cruel, unmitigated sarcasm to deal with the problem, but as you have shown this doesn't work in every case.
I think [[Category:Soviet spies]] should be trashed. 95% of the people in the category were never charged much less convicted. Most of them have a name which appears on some cryptic NSA file but that deserves a category of "Listed by the NSA as a spy" or something like that.
I think that the community (lack of) consensus was affected by a small horde of POV-pushers rallied for the occasion.
I'd say you're not alone. Unless you can find some objective way to include/exclude possible candidates (e.g. "convicted of being", "indicted of being", "identified by a known authority as being"), the category is useless -- except for people who are POV pushers. Or can I create [[Category:Moron talk show hosts]]?
So... should I just take it upon myself to delete it? That would raise nothing but hell. I'm not interested in that. Do we have mechanisms set up for this? Or is it the Ed Poor, "delete first, figure out the politics of it later" strategy?
If you want to nominate this on RfC, I'd be happy to second it. However, while the cruel, unmittigated sarcasm strategy might be less effective than the motions of an RfC, it would doubtlessly be far more satisfying.
Geoff