On 13/09/05, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Dan Grey wrote:
Spot on. Personally, I favour the PWDS because it would take deletion out the hands of the folk who just hang around on AfD, and quite possibly end the majority democracy which seems to be the norm on AfD.
Hear hear. Instead of moving VfD to AfD, we might as well have moved it to "Wikiproject Deletion." The last thing we need is a group of people who _specialize_ in deciding what articles are allowed in Wikipedia. The small, obscure articles don't get many people from outside the VfD regulars to consider the matter.
Of course, PWDS will never be installed, as the entrenched AfD zealots will never concede to any change that threatens their pastime.
The one-month VfD suspension Gerard suggested to force serious reform might be workable, if we do it in a somewhat more organized manner than Ed Poor's heroic deletion of VfD. I haven't been paying a lot of attention to the VfD reform effort until just recently, do you think perhaps we could get together a posse capable of making such a thing stick?
Had you done it a month ago... but people may be resistant to a second major upheaval in a couple of weeks, given the mutterings about the last one.