On 2/11/06, Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/11/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Who /is/ representative of Wikipedia consensus on deletion?
No one -- which is why I object so strongly to the idea that deletion should be treated differently from other edits; or that deletion should be regarded as "final" because of an AFD, as if "the community" has decided that an article should be deleted. That is a farce. An AFD means that the people who
Calling this idea a farce is a bit much.
Please remember that the AFD process guarantees that anyone who visits the article over the course of a week, and anyone browsing AFD who care about the subject, will be inclined to read the AFD discussion/vote. Which is a bit different from "the people who happened to be looking at AFD at the time".
Mistakes happen via AFD all the time; results should not be immutable; and the system is very far from perfect. That said, it is better than a random process
There is no good reason to treat deletion differently than any other edit.
Any process which involves dozens of people over the course of a week should naturally be treated differently, and reversed more slowly, than a single edit by a single user. This applies equally to AfD results and to FPC/FAC selections.
-- ++SJ