--- George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/26/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Is this what we've come to? Being honest with our
contributors doesn't
work, so we attempt to scare them with hollow threats?
FFS.
Whack someone over the head with [[WP:BITE]] ?
Why not just start applying the policy? Set a time limit. No RS, delete. Maybe be nice and provide 1 last extended deletion notice: "This article will be deleted in x days if no RS are cited." That is, if it hasn't already been uncited for several months.
It seems like there has been an extended and unstated policy to create essentially article shells simply to get the article count up and increase Wikipedia's popularity. WP has a high enough count and popularity. Why not start actually focusing on content detail and enforcing the long standing yet rarely applied policies?
The alternative seems to be to continue to be the rear end of jokes about knowledge by consensus and hearsay like that on the 1/24 Colbert Report until WP loses what trust it has.
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