I sincerely hope this proposal is never adopted. It doesn't "simplify" CSD,
it loosens it; making it easier for articles to be speedy deleted.
The number of new users, new article and edits is steadily decreasing. Deletionism is
partly to blame. Why bother put effort into creating articles if someone is going to come
along and delete it five minutes later? Carry on this way and people will just give up
contributing and Wikipedia will quickly decay away under the weight of vandalism.
Speedy deletion is only reasonable because it is so tightly defined.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, 21 May, 2009 13:38:10 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Attn: RFC about reforming criteria for speedy deletion policy
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There is currently an RFC in progress regarding
proposed reforms to the
[[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion]] policy. The discussion is about
reforming the prescriptive language of the policy to bring it into line with
fundamental Wikipedia principles and policies such as [[WP:NOT#BUREAUCRACY]]
and [[WP:POLICY]]. All editors are welcome to add statements and participate
in the discussion at
[[Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion/Simplify_policy_RfC]].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion/Si…
Link provided above.
Carcharoth
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