[WikiEN-l] Re: Why is this a problem

JAY JG jayjg at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 17 01:41:17 UTC 2005


>From: Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com>
>
>On 10/17/05, Daniel P. B. Smith <dpbsmith at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> > then the result would be that an article could not be deleted unless
> > it had basically been voted for deletion TWICE: once in AfD by 2/3
> > majority, then a second time in VfU by simple majority.
>
>No, that would be silly.  VFU should not try to gainsay deletion
>policy.  We should undelete unless there is a consensus to delete.

VFU should also not try to gainsay consensus.  The fact that is was deleted 
in the first place means (in 99.9% of cases) that there was consensus to 
delete.

Jay.





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