Only the very largest Wikipedias have votes or other formal mechanisms. Generally, from what I have seen, most Wikipedias only delete pages if they're obviously vandalism or something else of the type that would be speedily deleted on en:.
I think that this is because they have few enough articles that they don't worry so much about whether or not an article really belongs -- they welcome anything they can get.
Mark
On 05/08/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
There's a big debate on en: right now about what to use as a deletion mechanism. The current [[:en:WP:VFD]] mechanism is very controversial - I and many others think it creates more acrimony than it's worth, and [[:en:user:Ed Poor]] actually deleted the page a couple of days ago! While it was quickly undeleted, it's set in motion debates about what to use for a deletion mechanism. Because I don't think anyone questions that we needsome sort of deletion mechanism for stuff that isn't obvious immediate speedy deletes - just that VFD is scaling badly and getting very acrimonious.
So. What do other Wikipedias use as their deletion procedure?
- d.
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