Agree wholeheartedly, the page is a stupid waste of time and troll bait. Noone in their right mind gets involved in it unless they have to cause the deletionists is trying to delete a page you have created / authored. The freaky things you see there are just disgusting.
1. There is no reason to delete any of the pages there at all. Copyvios already has a special page. And there is also already candidates for speedy deletion and simple vandalism that is deleted on sight.
2. Everyone using that page to delete articles is sabotaging Wikipedia and should be blocked.
3. The page itself should be deleted since it just can't be fixed.
4. Articles about "non-notable" stuff does not hurt Wikipedia. Since noone cares about the stuff, noone will link to it and noone will search for it and NOONE will ever see it!
5. Except for people that actually GO AND LOOK for useless articles. But if you do, it's your own fault that you find them. Casual surfers and non-wikipedians wont find them.
6. And cause those articles are never read by anyone it doesn't hurt to remove them from Wikipedia. But that's not why vfd is sabotaging Wikipedia. It is because 50-80% of the articles listed there should not and will not be deleted. The authors of those articles are forced to defend their work to people that just haven't got a clue and never will. Then they have to engage in more pointless arguing with the deletionists just to prevent them from destroying Wikipedia!
7. The Wikipedia concept is that anyone can edit a page and that only those who edits a page gets to determine what information goes into a page. Its like "do it yourself cause you can't tell anyone else what to do cause there is no way to force them to do it." Now that concept doesn't work with vfd cause someone can say "uuuh.. delete unless it is improved in a week.". That person basically forces those who care about the article to write what they know about it or it will be killed. It is not fair at all.
8. As an example:
NASA Project Gemini Familiarization Manual -- Add to this discussion
The flight manual for the Gemini spacecraft - excellent Wikisource material. Transwiki and delete --Rlandmann 00:33, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
* Transwiki and delete. Geogre 00:54, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC) * Transwiki and delete. GeneralPatton 00:55, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC) * Have moved article to Wikisource. Please Delete DarylC 2 Sep 2004
Which of these comments is a total waste of everyones time? Rlandmann's is because despite the fact that he had an excellent idea he was to damn lazy to carry it out himself as he easily could. Geogre and GeneralPatton just seem to show off their excellent talents in agreeing. Finally, DarylC, the primary author of the page actually does some work and moves the article. Very good DarylC.
The problem with this is that atleast thousand people have been forced to read this meaningless junk because Rlandmann didn't place the suggestion to transwiki on the article's talk page which would have been the right thing to do.
9. Example2: SimonP decided to list Puchland. Puchland seem to be a minor webforum that nobody cares about. Because of point 4 above, this listing too, is completele useless. And as in point 8 the proper way would have been to propose deletion on that articles talk page. Noone but those concerned should be the ones taking the decision.
10. The only way to fix vfd would be to allow people to cast the identical vote on range of articles listed there. Then you would be able to vote "keep doesn't hurt wikipedia" (or whatever) on each and every article. However, the deletionists would never allow such an option because it only takes a handful of people to vote in that way for the whole system to break down.
IMHO, IANAL, etc, w/e
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