[WikiEN-l] Re: Re: VfD is broken

[Matt Brown]

There are extremists on both sides of the debate.  Aside from them,
the vast majority, I suspect, simply want a method for evaluating the
inclusion of an article that's less time consuming, produces a less
weighty page to read, and produces less in the way of flames.

There should, as other contributors have noted, be a method whereby
obvious keep candidates and pages that should have been speedy deleted
can be removed quickly, rather than clogging things up.

-Matt (User:Morven)

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 16:18:12 +1000, Rebecca <misfitgirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> The very essence of what makes Wikipedia work is consensus.
> It concerns me that a handful of inclusionists, who realise that their
> views are not shared by the majority of the community, simply turn to
> claiming that "VFD is broken", because it does not get their desired
> results.
> 
> People have put things on VFD before that I've agreed with. I've
> argued a case that they shouldn't be deleted, and it's very rare that
> such an article has then gone ahead and be deleted. If you put up an
> argument, and the majority *still* think that it should be deleted,
> then tough. That's the way it works.
> 
> VFD *is* growing too large to be maintainable, but that's a result of
> our continued growth, rather than some evil plan by the deletionists
> to go on an annihilating spree. A solution to that needs to be found,
> and I'm not sure what, but allowing junk to remain in the pedia is not
> the answer.
> 
> 
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