[WikiEN-l] More AfD toxicity

Steve Bennett stevage at gmail.com
Sat Feb 11 10:01:03 UTC 2006


Hi,
  Sorry I wrote that in a state of tiredness etc. I didn't mean to
insult that article. I somehow blended the general idea of "RC should
be able to tag crap articles" with this particular article.

I might have a go with this lightweight deletion process...

Steve

On 2/10/06, Guettarda <guettarda at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/10/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I don't see why the RC patrol should not tag it as crap, if, indeed,
> > it was crap. I don't think Sean is disputing that his article was
> > crap, just that he was planning on making it better. If he doesn't put
> > an in progress tag on it (and I've never actually seen one, to be
> > honest), then it's not unreasonable that he has to fish his
> > half-finished crap out of the bin before he can keep turning it into a
> > masterpiece.
> >
> > Steve
>
>
> Actually, it wasn't crap.  Have a look at the stub that was {{afd}}'d
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cart00ney&oldid=39073156
>
> It's tagged as a stub, it's referenced - it's far from being an FA, but it's
> nowhere near "crap" (not in a general Wikipedia context)



More information about the WikiEN-l mailing list