JAY JG (jayjg@hotmail.com) [050804 06:42]:
From: fun@thingy.apana.org.au (David Gerard)
I strongly agree we need a deletion mechanism - no-one's who's done Special:Newpages patrol could possibly disagree IMO. And over 95% of what hits VFD needs a sudden and painful death. But VFD as it exists is sick and diseased and a powerful net negative.
Maybe I haven't been there enough recently, but what exactly is making it so "sick and diseased" that, even though 95% of the stuff it deletes is garbage, it still needs to be done away with?
The other 5% is making it a truly poisonous source of acrimony in the Wikipedia-writing community. IMO. See further up the thread.
- d.