Jimmy Wales wrote:
Rick wrote:
I included Talossan language on VfD because the article, as written, was nonsense. It has since been modified to make it a legitimate topic. VfD frequently serves such a useful purpose. Putting the title on "Articles needing attention" is useless, because nothing EVER gets fixed that's on that page.
Well, that's a valid concern, but perhaps this merely suggests that we should, as a community, strongly de-emphasize the VfD page, strongly de-emphasize deletions, and instead hang out on "Articles needing attention".
I agree. Wikipedia must be well carpeted, if we judge it by the opportunites that we have for people to sweep things under them :-)
This line of inquiry begs the question, "How do we make 'Articles needing attention' more functional?" That list does just keep getting longer. Also if I follow a link from there, I'm often left wondering whether it has already been fixed, or maybe it shouldn't have been on that list in the first place. Encouraging people to go there and take time to actually deal with an article of their choice could bring the length of the list down. We perhaps need to update the page that advises newbies about what they can do to contribute so that they can easily go to "Articles needing attention"
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