On 12/11/05, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On 12/10/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa(a)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.