On Friday 22 October 2004 04:52, Daniel P.B.Smith wrote:
Many VfD discussions are really power struggles assessing the strength of factions.
I think this is a pretty bad thing and can only be stopped if you refrain from using the broken VfD process.
You need to ensure that all WP participants want to help WP, instead of pushing POV or exercising power. WP's shortcomings is a problem of motives: People join WP for their own benefit instead of WP's benefit. This needs to be corrected, otherwise WP will become a battleground and not a useful resource.
I think you need to make account creation a bit more difficult: 0. Anons aren't needed; disable anon editing. 1. People will be required to validate their account through an e-mail address. 2. New account holders will be denied editing until after 1-2 days. 3. To make anons open an account you could make some pages readable only by account holders, et cetera.