[WikiEN-l] Lock new article creation for three months

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 4/1/07, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> On 3/31/07, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Locking down new article creation while we do a cleanup is sensible;
> > Afd would be less like a sewerage drain and we could then judge the
> > status of the cleanup by the, hopefully diminishing, number of Afds
> > being raised.
>
> Or AfD could be shut off too, starting one week after article creation
> is shut off.
>
> > During this time, creation of new articles could be restricted to
> > admins, and non-admins could use WP:AFC.
>
> They could use it as a temporary storage place, but if you're going to
> let people submit new articles through WP:AFC and then have admins
> create new articles based on those submissions, it seems you're just
> redirecting efforts from one type of creation to another, and adding
> more work in the process.
>
> > It would be more tedious,
> > but it would further encourage a culture of writing articles that fit
> > within our policies and guidelines.  Regular contributors can write
> > userspace articles and submit them to WP:AFC in order to request that
> > they are moved into the main namespace by an admin.
> >
>
> I don't see the point of that.  If you're going to stop article
> creation, stop it.  Admins can still create or move articles if they
> feel there are special extenuating circumstances, but giving them the
> task of reviewing and approving ordinary article creations defeats the
> whole purpose, which is supposed to be to free people up to fix what's
> already there.
>
> Anthony


I raised the point that during the time article creation is shut down, new
topics (often current events) will arise that require articles. To not be 3
months behind after creation gets turned on again, we need some effort to
keep up to date and to have admins do it is the most sensible choice.

Mgm