Please explain to those of us who are "deletionist" idiots (gee, isn't it nice how you can just pigeonhole all of the people who make frequent use of VfD into ONE category?) what useful purpose all of these steps serve.
RickK
Jake Nelson jnelson@soncom.com wrote: Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
At 07:06 PM 11/6/03 -0600, Jake Nelson wrote:
(This is getting a bit long.) I'm going to propose again what I proposed once before: a temporary moratorium on deletions. Let's say two weeks. Copyvios will be the only exception. Blanking can be used if there's felt
to
be no value at all to the content, but if there's verifiable information
in
it, leave it. Let's try it and see what happens, hmmm?
Unless *just about everyone* disagrees with me, I'm going to continue to delete new pages that consist of obvious nonsense--asdfghjkl or the equivalent--rude grafitti, and "you should have an article here".
Understandable, and not the sort of thing I really oppose... but for the duration of such a period, I'd prefer we try just blanking... or redirecting to [[Wikipedia:Dead End]] or somesuch, as was proposed once. Maybe replace with "(There is currently [[Wikipedia:Dead End|no text]] in this page)"? Page can be named whatever, I'm just going with a name someone used once before as an example. The idea being that whatever that page is, we can use the "What links here" afterwards and evaluate what of that should be deleted as junk.
-- Jake
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