On 8/1/05, Haukur Þorgeirsson haukurth@hi.is wrote:
I'm tempted to just Be Bold and just go ahead and delete vfd. Just see if I don't!!
Holy crap, he did.
Well, I never liked it anyway :)
It's always seemed to me like an awkard kludge, out of sync with the general wiki process.
Regards, Haukur
That it may be... it certainly has its problems, at least. When I heard it was deleted, my first reaction was "hey, good show!" And if we were all Wiki addicts who'd been around a bit it could proceed from there just like that, and take discussion on while VfD was suspended leaving a gaping hole in its place.
But we aren't, and I suspect more than one person was incredibly confused. Think of all the pages that link to VfD, and how many newbies stumble across it; all the policies that mention it.
Ed claims to have intended to leave a redirect there, which would have improved matters. I could even see changing the page to be a placeholder that mentions operation being suspended while discussion proceeds. But it was a gaping hole; an off-putting and confusing one, and one without a clear action to follow in its absence.
I love Ignore All Rules as much as anyone (frankly, if it were abolished, I think I'd leave the project). But, well, if we're going to get rid of VfD, we should at least take a bit of time to set up the transition, no? And perhaps get a *little* more confirmation than one mailing list post, which even most regulars haven't read?
(To quote my idol Douglas Adams here: "OK, so ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, yeah?")
-Kat [[User:Mindspillage]]