On 1/12/06, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The problem you have is that it will be less effort to bring in
outsiders to support your position rather than to change your oponents
position. This results in people not involved with the project being
brought in solely to decide the result of votes.
If you mean in the case of disagreement within a project, their votes
could be discounted under the same reasoning that we discount votes
from very new users in AFD: they're not really part of the community
(referring, in this case, to the project rather than to Wikipedia as a
whole). Given that most projects don't fall apart over day-to-day
disagreements, there's no reason to think that adding any formal
weight to the process would suddenly result in a rash of
vote-stacking.
There are, of course, a few projects that exist mainly as glorified
debating forums rather than resources for collaborative editing;
presumably they would not be given the authority to run their own
deletion discussions.
Kirill Lokshin