Bryan,
If you had knowledge, that suggested it was worthy of retention, why didn't you contribute to the debate?
BTW, I think that AfD works well and generally the decision that is made at the end of the day is the correct one. I am disinclined to support an alternative unless I am sure that I will work better than the current system. So for, none of the suggested alternatives have met that standard in that view.
Any system regarding the deletion of articles will only work as well as the participation of members in it.
Regards
On 10/13/05, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
I just came across this AfD when a link to the deleted article was removed from another I had watchlisted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The_Jar
I never read the webcomic The Jar myself, but I know that it existed and was popular, and also that when Kittyhawk moved on to other projects the webcomic's archive was taken offline. The nominator saw the resulting lack of Google results and nominated it solely on account of "none notability." As a result of this grand consensus of four voters, three of whom explained their vote with "nn" and one with "as per nom", Wikipedia will forever more lack an article on this topic. Kind of a pity since I've always been curious about what I missed - I've been told that it had a better plot than Kittyhawk's current strip, which survived a VfD last year.
There were tons of great ideas being kicked around on this mailing list a few weeks back for how to change the deletion process, either as a short-term experiment or long-term reform, has it all quietly passed from everyone's radars now? Or is there some other forum the discussion moved to that I missed? _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l