[WikiEN-l] More quotes from AfD
Steve Bennett
stevagewp at gmail.com
Tue Jun 20 13:13:48 UTC 2006
On 6/20/06, Cobb <sealclubbingfun at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Making it easier for trekkies to vote on trekkie AFDs... I was
> actually thinking more along the lines of ensuring that an
> AFD is exposed to a wider selection of Wikipedians. One
> criticism of AFDs is that after the second day, the only
> people who still bother to vote/comment are those with
> an interest in the article. A recent AFD of Star Trek material
> had to resort to repeatedly relisting it in order to get
> wider exposure... otherwise, it would have just been the
> Trekkie voters still hammering away (OMG! Trek article!
> Keep! Keep!) despite the subject being 100% original
> research.
`
If AfD wasn't a vote (and there's absolutely no reason it should be a
vote) this would not be a problem.
Steve
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