dpbsmith@verizon.net wrote:
E.g. (GROSSLY caricaturing an actual VfD debate for purposes of illustration) instead of saying "I've never heard of Lehman Brothers, what do you know about them?" a nominator is more likely to say something like "Vanity, some non-notable insurance company, delete spam." Typically there will be a more comments like that until someone with _some_ topic familiarity runs across the VfD entry. THEN someone chimes in "The firm is really quite large, unless I'm very much mistaken." Then there are follow- ups "It's a Fortune 500 company," "Definite keep," "Keep article on major financial force of the twentieth century," "Need more articles like this," etc.
thanks for this summary ;-) the same happens on de: in the same style. We even have a page for this kind of stuff: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ELKE (is an acronym for Extreme Loeschkandidating ("Vfding") Excess Points) where people can assign scores.
Everybody understands the concept of submitting an article for review and possibly having it be rejected. If newcomers perceive Wikiprocess as a variation of that model, fewer of them will be unnecessarily shocked or offended by the VfD process.
I think it's a rather good idea. Recently on de: we also thought about creating a page where newbies can submit their articles for a general review (help with formatting, encyclopedic style etc.) since some new people asked for something like this.
greetings, elian