On 12/10/05, Keith Old keithold@gmail.com wrote:
I think the idea of a heavily promoted Article Improvement Week is a useful one.
However, there is no reason to turn off AfD. Indeed, often the reason that articles are in AfD is that the topic is notable but the article is crap for various reasons including:
short and lacking context;
bogus articles on legitimate topics;
lacking references.
My main focus in AfD is looking for articles that can be improved and turned into encyclopedia articles. There is no reason that AfD cannot form part of Article Improvement Week.
For one week Articles for Deletion is renamed Articles for Improvement (symbolically, if actually moving the page would be technically problematic), and there's no voting or page destruction, just discussion of how to improve the article :).
Anthony