The entire idea of "voting for deletion" seems problematic to me. It's like a reverse popularity contest -- the worst of grade-school elections.
"Discuss for deletion", "Nominate for deletion", "Propose for deletion", --whatever. But a rough and informal polling system seems to be the root of the difficulties.
...But I don't have an alternative.
FF
On 8/3/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
JAY JG (jayjg@hotmail.com) [050804 09:03]:
The other 5% is making it a truly poisonous source of acrimony in the Wikipedia-writing community. IMO. See further up the thread.
Deleting the page seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater to me.
I'm not sure the current operation of VFD could fairly have been predicted early enough to strangle it at birth. We need a deletion mechanism, but not this one.
- d.
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