[WikiEN-l] I better shut up (was vfd RFC)

[Ryan Delaney]

Stephen Bain wrote:

>On 8/4/05, neil klopfenstein <rebrane at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>The worst thing about VfD, in my opinion, is that once an article is
>>listed, it "can't" be merged/redirected/whatever else. It seems like
>>the majority of the articles on VfD are either no-brainer speedies or
>>no-brainer merges.
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>>My idea for a comprehensive VfD reform: create a 'problem article' tag
>>which replaces {{vfd}} and {{d}}. Admins can delete these articles if
>>they're problematic, editors can remove the tag if they substantially
>>rewrite the article or redirect it. Anything that keeps the problem
>>article tag for a week gets deleted.
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>Someone could tag an article {{vanity}}, for example, and an admin
>could delete it on sight, just like articles tagged {{delete}}, as
>long as it was clearly a vanity page. The ambiguous ones (and there
>are relatively few of those) could be shuffled off elsewhere, and
>dealt with on an individual basis.
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>I like that idea.
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I don't see how this idea will be able to deal with the case load. 
Almost a thousand articles are nominated to VfD each week, and for the 
vast majority of them, rightly so. More likely, the tagged articles 
would just get forgotten and dropped into the abyss, I think.

- Ryan