[WikiEN-l] Why AFD works Great

[Delirium]

Justin Cormack wrote:

> Fair enough - my though is if we get 10 times as many people on patrol
> can we use it as a requested articles feed? It might need a process,
> or even just a feed into requested articles (where the URL could have
> been dumped). I admit I have stopped looking at new articles now though.

I do occasionally use it as a requested-articles feed, and have written 
several fairly lengthy articles starting from sub-stubs.  Honestly, 
though, there is no shortage of requested articles, so the link-only 
articles aren't really providing much of a service---if I wanted to 
write an article and was not sure on what to write, there is a very 
lengthy page already on Wikipedia for requested articles.  I'm not 
inclined to allow people who create link-only articles to get their 
requests somehow automatically moved to the front of the queue just 
because they're not allowed to be deleted.

Which is to say, I half-agree---if people are so inclined, feel free to 
turn a sub-stub into a real article.  But if not, it's no great loss if 
it gets deleted.  If you feel particularly badly about it, add it to 
[[Wikipedia:Requested articles]] after you delete it.

-Mark