On 12/11/05, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 12/10/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
The only way to avoid the appearance of unencyclopedic articles on Wikipedia and their persistence on Wikipedia is to disable article creation. Or we can admit the obvious: that Wikipedia is a work in progress.
Moreover, I'd say AFD is a horrible solution for "bad articles". The vast majority of "bad articles" deleted via AFD, which don't already fall under a speedy deletion criterion, could easily be either changed into a redirect or into a good, albeit short, article (usually on an obscure subject).
If you're saying we can't afford to carry good short articles on obscure subjects, well, I disagree there. We can afford to do it, and it doesn't require lowering our standards at all.
Yes.
One thing we should probably introduce in this area though is that articles which do not provide any references should be speedy deletions. Now there are probably a whole lot of good articles out there right now which would fit that, so for now let's make the CSD criterion only for articles caught in the first 48 hours. And let's require the user who created the article to be informed of the deletion on her talk page.
Now this, while a rather draconian policy, is at least not inimical to the nature of Wikipedia, as AfD is. Of course, I'd rather that people be expected to make a good-faith effort to find a reference before deleting.
I really would like the software to make referencing easier.
Again, I think that having the edit summary be mandatory for non-minor edits would be a very good idea.