From: Ray Saintonge Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 1:06 PM To: English Wikipedia Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Deletion policy needed
Jake Nelson wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
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.
Agreed. Very few of the pages listed have any particular reason to be deleted. I still believe an altogether moratorium on deletions for a
period
of time would do wonders. Making it so that blanked pages produced
red
links
would probably help shoot down one of the arguments for deletion, as
well.
This has my support. VfD seems to have become a nest of control
freaks
determined to invent newer, more complicated and more unworkable
rules.
It's managing to suck in more and more useful contributors just to watch these people who are obsessed with maintaining our bodily
humours.
Aren't blanked pages indicated by a special color indicating stubs now?