--- David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
You haven't been around VFD much lately, I take it. It's not just an immune system but an autoimmune disease; people appear to be trying to use it as Wikipedia's quality control system.
- d.
And this is bad because ...?
RickK
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Rick (giantsrick13@yahoo.com) [050514 01:56]:
--- David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
You haven't been around VFD much lately, I take it. It's not just an immune system but an autoimmune disease; people appear to be trying to use it as Wikipedia's quality control system.
And this is bad because ...?
Because that isn't really what it's for, per the decorative policy. It's there to keep out the *irredeemable* crap that makes it past speedy. (And I'm painfully aware that new articles can at times run up to thirtyish percent shoot-on-sight speedyable. Anyone doubting this should do Special:Newpages patrol; if it doesn't turn you into a bloodthirsty axewielding deletionist, it'll certainly give you a strong understanding of them.)
I'm hoping the rating system will help with this, then those wanting a higher-quality Wikipedia (e.g. me) will eventually be able to extract one at will and not feel they have to clear out the marginal but verifiable.
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David Gerard said:
Because that isn't really what it's for, per the decorative policy. It's there to keep out the *irredeemable* crap that makes it past speedy. (And I'm painfully aware that new articles can at times run up to thirtyish percent shoot-on-sight speedyable. Anyone doubting this should do Special:Newpages patrol; if it doesn't turn you into a bloodthirsty axewielding deletionist, it'll certainly give you a strong understanding of them.)
Doing newpages patrol is the nearest thing a childless person can get to being the parent of teenagers.
Oooooooh, a Wikipedian version of the [[Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith]]. Sounds interesting....
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Tony Sidaway wrote:
David Gerard said:
Because that isn't really what it's for, per the decorative policy. It's there to keep out the *irredeemable* crap that makes it past speedy. (And I'm painfully aware that new articles can at times run up to thirtyish percent shoot-on-sight speedyable. Anyone doubting this should do Special:Newpages patrol; if it doesn't turn you into a bloodthirsty axewielding deletionist, it'll certainly give you a strong understanding of them.)
Doing newpages patrol is the nearest thing a childless person can get to being the parent of teenagers.
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