On 2/28/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
This has been happening two years. So, no new problem to deal with.
More than three years, really.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/wikien-l/2003-November/
See in particular the thread labeled "Rampant Deletionism", where much of this was said almost verbatim. (And wherein I argued for a moratorium on VFD.) Many of the other threads are about the state of VFD at the time.
There's probably similar discussions from before I was an admin, but I was barely able to remember that one.
-- Jake Nelson [[en:User:Jake Nelson]]