On 11/8/03 5:08 PM, "James Duffy" jtdire@hotmail.com wrote:
I agree 100% with Erik. This proposal is absurd in the extreme. Wikipedia finds it hard enough to keep up with the deletion of articles continually. A ban for six months would leave a back log of hundreds if not thousands of articles that have no place on an encyclopedia but end up surviving by default, or else leading to a /massive/ period of deletions unprecedented in wikipedia history. It is quite frankly the most ludicrous of ludicrous ideas, an unworkable idea that would damage wikipedia. The ''deletionists'' against ''inclusionists'' argument is utterly bogus. It is a case of those who take the idea that wikipedia as an encyclopedia seriously and basic standards below which an article is deleted and those who see wikipedia as some sort of scribblebox where any sort of rubbish, not matter how bad, has a 'right' to be left undisturbed.
I agree that a six month moratorium would probably be counterproductive.
A two-week moratorium on deleting entries that would be placed on VfD, as originally suggested, is more reasonable and should be the only one under discussion.