Brion Vibber wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
Brion-
Then I don't understand the point at all. Use separate pages!
The feature was inspired by the current situation on [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion]] (en:). The page became so long that modem users complained that they could no longer effectively work with it.
Ahhh, deletion. You're solving the wrong problem, then. When all you've got is a hammer...
A community deletion system with an automatically generated list linking to all deletion-nominated pages would seem to be the appropriate thing; this would eliminate the need to manually arrange a billion little debates; they could sit on the talk pages where they belonged, and the master list would manage itself.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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I agree with Brion. The problem is that VfD in its current form is completely broken. The current system won't scale, and the plethora of transclusion pages is a worse cure than the original problem: at least when VfD got huge before, someone worked on it.
Brion's solution also sounds reasonable: a specialized solution for a (so far) specialized problem.
A generalization of this problem is all the other request queues for human action that will soon scale beyond the ability of people to cope with by mere editing, like cleanup, RC patrol, etc.
-- Neil