Carbonite wrote:
I'm starting to like where this proposal is going. I have some suggestions that I'd like to throw out for feedback:
- AfD would be turned off for the first two weeks of the month (1st -14th).
During this time no nominations or "votes" are allowed. Any article not nominated by the last day of the previous month would have to wait until the 15th. Existing AfDs would continued to be closed. Speedy deletion criteria would still be in effect.
- The second week of the month (8th-14th), all mainspace article creation
would be turned off. This could be enforced through software by only allowing article creation by admins (and this would be strongly discouraged). Talk pages and pages in other namespaces could be created by all registered users.
I'm not so keen on this, because a) I don't always have complete control over which days and times I can do editing, and b) a routine type of cleanup is to cut portmanteau and oversized articles into several logical pieces. But then again I could use the time to upload more of my pic backlog (assuming commons lets me create the gallery pages for them...), or simply take a wikivacation because my eyes are bleeding from retagging thousands of fair-use pictures. :-)
If you want to incentivize, then just announce prizes ("most-improved in one week", "most stubs expanded past 500 words", etc).
Stan