On 11/15/05, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Yep. AFD is one place where Larry Sanger's claim of blatant anti-expert bias is provably correct.
So. Is Wikipedia's provable anti-expert bias here a good or bad thing? If bad, what to do about it? Please discuss.
Snowspinner, who does actually know a thing or two about webcomics, has been practising some interventionism in webcomic article deletion debates. This kind of thing isn't for the faint of heart, because usually it involved convincingly facing down a bunch of ignoramuses, but he's had some success.
I have come around to the suggestion that I formerly felt rather wary of: closing AfD at least for an experimental period, because of its function in lending leverage to attempts to exclude whole subjects from Wikipedia. The current activities organised around AfD not good for the long term health of the project, in my opinion.