Jack Lynch wrote:
Actually, ed has pissed me off about as often and
thoroughly as he was
able, and I ''still'' say he did the right thing here, and has nothing
to apologise for. VfD deserves deletion, and I seem to remember Jimbo
considering deleting it himself about a year ago. The '''worst'''
aspect of the wiki is its "wiki-democracy", and all its ugly
manifestations. The majority has no claim to the truth, esp. when its
a majority of those who happen to know about some obscure vote,
failing to announce it to anyone other than their partisan cronies.
The problem with the proposals to do away with it is that none so far
has proposed anything better (or at least people haven't been convinced
the alternative proposals are better). There is plenty of stuff that
goes through VfD that ought to be deleted; only a small percentage of
the stuff on VfD is contentious in any way.
If VfD is done away with and no alternative deletion process is
provided, then those types of pages will simply be speedy-deleted. In
itself that would be fine, since the majority are obvious, but having a
VfD process helps sometimes IMO, because occasionally an admin will
mis-identify something as an obvious deletion candidate when it really
shouldn't be, and others will point out his error before the page is
actually deleted.
-Mark