On 1/17/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
I don't see the need to delete debates and as noted before, it would
cause
problems when linking to earlier debates. And it would be harder for
newbies
to figure out why "their" article was deleted.
Ok, it sounds like everyone disagrees with me and I'm basically convinced by this argument. I don't see much need for random people to look at these pages (and probably they almost never do), but certainly if newbies just suddenly find their article deleted and can't read way, they'll just be a pain in the neck by recreating over and over.
So, I bow to the wisdom of others, and suggest this alternative (suggested by others):
- blank and protect
- leave the history there, but don't call special attention to it (this
is so the victims don't feel that the blanking is pointless -- any wikipedian, even newbies, will know to click on 'history') 3. ask brion to see what he can cook up for blocking search spiders from it
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Do you mean blanking and protecting all VFD/AFD debates on people/buisinesses that we have on record currently, or to start this practice right away, and continuing it for only new debates? I think I agree with geni here, going back to all the former debates and blanking/protecting is going to take a very large amount of resources in terms of server load and editor time.
However, I think I generally agree with this proposal. I recently had to blank a AfD myself because of some hurtful comments about the subject.
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