The trouble with VFU is that only admins can even see
what was deleted. The process is proundly un wiki.
Mark
--- Matt Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Listing on VfD is not equivalent to deletion.
My experience is that very few if any articles are
ever deleted
through VfD that should not be. Those cases and
most borderline ones
then have the option of VfU.
VfD is really about trying to get the community
opinion about an
article's inclusion. Options other than straight
keep or straight
delete are often used too -- in this case, merging
into one article.
-Matt
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:17:13 -0700 (PDT), Mark
Richards
<marich712000(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
This highlights to problem of deletion. In the
case
you are talking about, someone should very much
have
boldly edited this as redirects. If this had
happened
to be wrong, people would have seen it, and it
could
have been put right through wiki process.
Deletion is a totally different beast, it removes
the
information, and, for most users, even the
evidence
that it was ever there, removing the possibility
of
process to improve the information.
Mark
--- "Carson, David" <DCarson(a)nine.com.au> wrote:
> Ed Poor wrote:
> > If there are a dozen or 6 dozen separate, tiny
> articles with a common
> > theme, then why not:
> >
> > * Copy the text of each article into one new
> comprehensive article
> (like
> > [[List of Apprentice contestants]]
> > * Turn the text of each old article into:
> #REDIRECT [[List of
> > Apprentice contestants]]
> >
> > This is how Maveric asked me to handle the
> Simpsons, way back when...
>
> That's what I voted for, and indeed, that was
the
> overwhelming consensus
> of the VFD vote, and is what has been done.
>
> And indeed, that could have been boldly done by
> someone without needing
> a VFD vote. But I would say that (a) there would
> have been a guaranteed
> edit war following it; and (b) there WAS a
definite
> minority opinion
> that these people didn't deserve to be in the
> Wikipedia AT ALL, being
> merely "game show contestants".
>
> Me, I see the whole affair as further proof that
VFD
is not at
all
broken, and continues to excellently serve the
community.
Cheers!
David...
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