[WikiEN-l] Proposal: Article Improvement Weeks! (was Turn off article creation AND deletion.)

[Anthony DiPierro]

On 12/11/05, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Anthony DiPierro wrote:
>
> > For one week Articles for Deletion is renamed Articles for Improvement
> > (symbolically, if actually moving the page would be technically
> > problematic), and there's no voting or page destruction, just
> > discussion of how to improve the article :).
>
>
> Have you *looked* through AFD recently? I just looked at the past six
> days of nominations.
>
> *shudder*
>
> We really do have mountains of crap that must die as soon as possible.
>
> I saw one nomination that really annoyed me - [[List of Scientology
> centers]] - which prompted me to comment that nominators should have to
> bother notifying the relevant wikiproject. 'Cos it's not a great
> article, but it's not deletable IMO, it's highly improvable (e.g. I
> could pepper it up with a pile of my own photos) and it's useful to the
> project.
>
>
> - d.

We used to have a separate page just for "lists for deletion".  Lists
aren't really ever encyclopedia articles, and the standards for them
should be different than the standards for articles.