"Adam [name omitted for privacy reasons]" <[name omitted for privacy reasons]@msn.com> schrieb:
The most useful contributors are busy contributing. Hurrying them to improve an article (or risk deletion) results in a stressful and counterproductive environment. We should allow editors to work at their own rate; this is a work in progress -- lets not fool ourselves into thinking that this will change anytime soon.
If somebody, who adds a poorly-written article to VfD; instead, took 15 minutes to research and improve...the Wikipedia would greatly benefit.
Then again if an article is put on VfD for being poorly-written, it usually means it is so poorly written that starting a new article and improving the existing one are equivalent options. Which means that 'risking deletion' is not a risk at all.
Andre Engels
From: Andre Engels
Then again if an article is put on VfD for being poorly-written, it usually means it is so poorly written that starting a new article and improving the existing one are equivalent options. Which means that 'risking deletion' is not a risk at all.
Again, the conclusion would be correct if the premise were true. But to correct the premise some words have to be added:
"Then again if an article is put on VfD for being poorly-written, it usually means *the person who added it to VfD believes that* it is so poorly written that starting a new article and improving the existing one are equivalent options."
Since everyone's judgment on that is not presumptively identical, conflict and debate ensues (the reason why there needs to be votes for deletion).
Actually, since we trust people to summarily delete utter nonsense, people only put pages on Votes for Deletion which they recognize are not open-and-shut cases.
Not at all. Those of us who have, in the past, deleted articles that we thought were nonsense, have had to suffer personal attacks by those like MyRedDice who don't think that ANYTHING should be deleted, and therefore have acquiesced to putting things on VfD in order to avoid just the sort of personal attacks that I've been receiving here on the mailing list.
RickK
The Cunctator cunctator@kband.com wrote: Actually, since we trust people to summarily delete utter nonsense, people only put pages on Votes for Deletion which they recognize are not open-and-shut cases.
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