JAY JG (jayjg(a)hotmail.com) [050804 06:42]:
From: fun(a)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.