On 1/20/06, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.org wrote:
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geni stated for the record:
On 1/20/06, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.org wrote:
Well, here's a serious proposal to encourage discussion:
I propose <sigh> yet another level of bureaucracy -- a Deletion Review Board (which would have nothing whatsoever to do with the useless WP:VfU). The Review Board would be empowered to penalize those who nominate and those who vote support such egregiously careless and /damaging/ deletions. Deletions of unpublished garage bands can continue just as they do today.
The penalties would be limited, perhaps to simply to "time-outs" of various lengths -- prohibitions from participating in any *fD process -- and would primarily serve as a way of getting the attention of the offenders that /they are damaging the encyclopedia/ with their thoughtless assumptions of bad faith and personal attacks. Any offenses too great for that level of penalty would be dealt with by the ArbComm.
I would appreciate discussion of this suggestion, particularly by Jimbo and my fellow ArbCommies. Starting question: should we bash on it here, or take it to a Meta page?
So no action against those who vote to keep stuff that should be deleted? Remeber a keep vote is worth more than a delete vot on AFD.
-- geni
No, no action. An erroneous "keep" is harms no one, since copyvios, attacks and libel, and similar damaging material are not subject to Votes for Deletion.
Have you ever tried to bring up issues of copyright violation on AFD? I have. I got kinda outvoted (to be fair the subject was to do with schools).
Hoaxes are subject to AFD. Are you going to claim that voteing to keep them does no damage?
-- geni