On 6/16/06, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
WP editors and admins seem to be largely inclusionary, so you've already lost many of those battles. When you lose it by a landslide because of a bunch of energetic Star Wars fans' it's making another more unfortunate point as well. In a sense, every time AFD is misused in this manner, trying to "clean up" an article on a valid topic by AFDing it and perhaps recreating it, it brings disrepute to the process and a lot of "no" voters in. We would be better off if such AFDs weren't called in the first place. AFD should be the last final response to an unsalvagable article after you've tried cleanup tags, getting involved in cleaning it up, and asking other editors to help if the article's usual editors feel too much ownership and keep doing unencyclopedic things.
Thank you.
Will someone copy this down and maybe add it to the top of the AFD page?
Ryan