[WikiEN-l] Turn off article creation AND deletion.

Daniel P. B. Smith wikipedia2006 at dpbsmith.com
Sat Dec 10 02:44:34 UTC 2005


How about this for an experiment: turn off article creation _and_  
deletion for a while? Freeze the table of contents (not that we have  
one)...

So that all anyone could possibly do is to edit existing articles?

It would force everyone to pay attention to the articles that exist  
already, and with 857,833 of them you'd think people could find  
something worth their attention.

With deletion being impossible, AfD would become unnecessary... as  
would DRV. So, that should make one faction happy. On the other hand,  
there would be no opportunity to add subtrivial topics. (Or trivial  
topics, or significant topics). That should make another faction happy.





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