[WikiEN-l] Article deletion

[Ray Saintonge]

Ral315 wrote:

>On 9/13/05, William M Connolley <wmc at bas.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Bryan Derksen wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>How about only permitting people 3 votes per day in total?
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>>-W.
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>Having a vote threshold simply won't work. Last night I closed 4 AfD's, all 
>on Bus Stops (result was no consensus). What if each voter could only vote 
>on 3 of the 4, and then no more articles at all? Besides, that would just 
>increase the number of articles who don't get enough votes to reach 
>consensus- they'd have to be relisted, increasing the AfD load.
>
We like to limit the frequency with which bots can edit.

What might be a little more practical than 3 votes per day would be a 
minimum 15 minute wait between votes.  This would give the person time 
to think between votes.

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