[WikiEN-l] Dealing with crap deletion nominations

[Haukur Þorgeirsson]

An interesting idea but the research needed to study every single AfD
case, read the discussion and make an informed decision to keep or delete
is far far beyond what a single person can accomplish. We need lots of
experienced people doing that job. Which is exactly the system we
currently have.

I very much encourage David, Tony, Phil and anyone else concerned with the
decisions and discussions at AfD, to participate in the discussions and/or
close nominations. They don't need any special powers beyond those of
normal admins. If you bring up a good case for keeping an article, AfD
will keep the article most of the time. I'd say the biggest problem with
AfD is the labels thrown around - "vanity", "non-notable", "ad" etc. -
nasty to read for the subjects of the articles. Blanking the discussions
after they're done will help a lot.

Regards,
Haukur


> On Jan 22, 2006, at 2:10 PM, David Gerard wrote:
>
>
>> I'm sure everyone would hate my opinions equally.
>
> Which would probably be an excellent indicator of success.
>
> The suggestion is not insincere - if deletion is going to be brought
> back under the control of the guiding principles under which the site
> is run, there is going to have to be some oversight. You suffer from
> A) Having raised most of the issues we are trying to correct, B)
> Intense sanity, and C) Being strikingly moderate on the deletionism/
> inclusionism scale. it seems to me exactly what the page needs.
>
> It may not be what your job or wife need, but you should have thought
> of that before you demonstrated sanity.
>
> -Phil
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