On 3/24/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/24/06, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
You appear to be asking for a cure for blithering idiocy. There is no cure for such, particularly on AFD.
Sure there is - well written policy helps. Even if 10 blithering idiots vote to delete a page, if the 11th points to the rule which clearly rules out deletion in the particular case, then hopefully the admin is sensible enough to ignore the 10. If the 11th is only screaming "use common sense!" then he won't get far.
In my early days at Wikipedia I was told about an editor who, in closing AfDs, actually decided to go by the deletion policy. He got into quite a lot of trouble.