On 11/23/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
We clearly need a deletion system of some sort, but this one is second only to
Not really. I've brought this up before, but basically there are two issues: 1) Content deletion 2) Topic deletion
We don't need AfD for the first. Anyone can delete any content from any article. What we need is a clear understanding of what content we actually want, and how much of it we want. IMHO, technical solutions like enforcing a maximum article length for certain types of subjects would help.
For the second, all we have to establish is whether Wikipedia wants an article on a given topic or not, totally independently of what content is currently at the article. If the topic is bad, make it a redirect. If the topic is really really bad, RfD it.
We don't need AfD to deal with really crappy articles that violate thirty policies and guidelines on subjects that we do want - someone just needs to stub it.
Steve