On 12/10/05, M. Creidieki Crouch creidieki@gmail.com wrote:
Could we make a separate namespace for all of the AfD archives? Right now, [[Special:Randompage/Wikipedia]] only gives me AfD pages, and doing a search in the Wikipedia namespace is near impossible. We could call it "Deletion" and only put the AfD stuff in it, or we could call it "Archives" and put some other stuff in it (FAC, RFA). But I really think that putting the infinite cruft into a separate namespace would make some of these technical features easier to use.
-- Creidieki
Strongly agree with giving AfDs their own namespace. (This has been proposed before but never got anywhere.) Wikipedia: space search is all but useless now.
One further suggestion: that they not be indexed by Google. Why? It just adds noise to search results, and there are plenty of people who have had nothing to do with Wikipedia other than the fact that someone wrote a miserably bad or pure vanity article about them, and thanks to AfD the first several hits on their names are us and mirrors proclaiming "vanity, kill it quickly with an axe" or "not notable, delete". They usually tend to be upset about this and I can't say that I blame them.
-Kat [[User:Mindspillage]]
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