"Steve Bennett", Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:38:14 +0200, wrote:
This all has the positive side effect of making it easier for people expert in one domain to contribute to discussions in their domain.
Making it easier for trekkies to vote on trekkie AFDs... I was actually thinking more along the lines of ensuring that an AFD is exposed to a wider selection of Wikipedians. One criticism of AFDs is that after the second day, the only people who still bother to vote/comment are those with an interest in the article. A recent AFD of Star Trek material had to resort to repeatedly relisting it in order to get wider exposure... otherwise, it would have just been the Trekkie voters still hammering away (OMG! Trek article! Keep! Keep!) despite the subject being 100% original research.
On 6/20/06, Cobb sealclubbingfun@googlemail.com wrote:
Making it easier for trekkies to vote on trekkie AFDs... I was actually thinking more along the lines of ensuring that an AFD is exposed to a wider selection of Wikipedians. One criticism of AFDs is that after the second day, the only people who still bother to vote/comment are those with an interest in the article. A recent AFD of Star Trek material had to resort to repeatedly relisting it in order to get wider exposure... otherwise, it would have just been the Trekkie voters still hammering away (OMG! Trek article! Keep! Keep!) despite the subject being 100% original research.
` If AfD wasn't a vote (and there's absolutely no reason it should be a vote) this would not be a problem.
Steve
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:55:52 +0100, Cobb sealclubbingfun@googlemail.com wrote:
Making it easier for trekkies to vote on trekkie AFDs... I was actually thinking more along the lines of ensuring that an AFD is exposed to a wider selection of Wikipedians. One criticism of AFDs is that after the second day, the only people who still bother to vote/comment are those with an interest in the article.
Here's an idea: <noinclude> the debate, leave the nomination (and encourage expansion of it if new facts are found), and list all open AfDs on a single page.
Guy (JzG)
On 6/20/06, Cobb sealclubbingfun@googlemail.com wrote:
One criticism of AFDs is that after the second day, the only people who still bother to vote/comment are those with an interest in the article.
I can't read it every day. I end up doing so every 2-3 days typically, sometimes once a week.