On 8/4/05, neil klopfenstein <rebrane(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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.
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.
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.
I like that idea.
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