Save the articles! Re: [WikiEN-l] proposal: rename "Votes for deletion" to "Triage"

[Mark Richards]

This is interesting, but I would like to focus on
keeping things that don't really need deletion of Vfd,
and trying to get another forum for article cleanup.
Cleanup needs to be 'sexed up' somehow though - people
seem much more enclined to vote for article deletion
than to put effort into deleting it - perhaps awards
editors working hardest to save articles from
deletion? Mark


--- Robert Dodier <robert_dodier at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> 
> It turns out that VfD is used as a general forum to 
> determine what to do with an article. Deletion is an
> option but redirect, cleanup, & copyvio are used as
> well.
> So I suggest renaming "Votes for deletion" to
> "Triage".
> 
> The VfD header message can be changed accordingly --
> 
>   "This article has been listed on Wikipedia:Triage
>   because someone decided it would be a good idea to
>   get some more eyeballs on it."
> 
> I'm thinking such a message is more accurate, and 
> also gentler on new contributors, whose articles
> end up on VfD out of proportion to their numbers.
> 
> Maybe "Triage" isn't the best name since it 
> suggests trauma. Any other ideas?
> 
> For what it's worth,
> Robert Dodier
> (Wile E. Heresiarch)
> 
> 
> 		
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!
> http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
> _______________________________________________
> WikiEN-l mailing list
> WikiEN-l at Wikipedia.org
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
> 



		
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages!
http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail