Kirill Lokshin wrote:
On 1/16/06, Snowspinner Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
I have just added the following text to my userpage.
==Expertise and deletion==
If you can verify for me that you are a subject expert in a subject considered notable enough to include on Wikiedia, I will, on your say- so, close any deletion debate as "keep" within your field of expertise, and will undelete any articles within your field that you say are notable.
It's a small step, but it's what I can do.
Going for that coveted "Admin with the most RFCs filed against him" spot, I see ;-)
It's a nice sentiment, but the approach really won't scale that well (unless a lot more admins go along with it) and will result in lots of upset users. We really need broader institutional changes to the deletion process.
Kirill Lokshin
I agree, Phil. I really think you should clarify this (probably on a subpage linked to from your statement) or remove it. Even if it's meant in good faith, it's way too easy for some well-meaning (yes, believe it or not, a good number of the AfD crowd *are* acting in good faith) people to take this the wrong way, as I see has already been done on [[WP:ANI]].
John Lee ([[User:Johnleemk]])