Instead of fussing about improving the AfD process, I'd like to give some thought to improving the article _request_ process. Right now it's actually quite difficult, as you're expected to thread your way through a deeply nested Roget's-Thesaurus-like logical organization of the sum of human knowledge to find the place to insert a request. I'd like _requesting_ an article to be truly as easy as _creating_ one. That is, I'd a link or button which automatically adds your request to some list somewhere... and lets other people sort 'em out into categories. I honestly feel that many problem substubs--the ones which give virtually no information that is not in their titles--should be treated either in one of two ways. Many substubs look to me like good- faith efforts to point out a topic that someone would like covered-- but does not have the time or the skills to make a usable start on. If a stub is not a usable launching pad for an article, then it does not serve any function other than pointing out the absence of an article on a worthy topic. It is, then, not an article, not a stub, not the start of an article--it is an article request made in an inappropriate way. I think the appropriate disposition of such main-namespace-pages is to delete them from the main namespace and re-enter them as article requests. -- Daniel P. B. Smith, dpbsmith(a)verizon.net "Elinor Goulding Smith's Great Big Messy Book" is now back in print! Sample chapter at http://world.std.com/~dpbsmith/messy.html Buy it at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1403314063/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l