[WikiEN-l] False AfD Nominations

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 2/1/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 01/02/07, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here's another example of a perhaps not false but "bad faith" nom.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:
> >
> Articles_for_deletion/List_of_pseudosciences_and_pseudoscientific_concepts
> >
> > What really smells about this one is that the nominating account,
> > "Pizzazz" was created on the same day as the nomination and the only
> > thing he did was make the nom in question. I would have no problem
> > with promptly closing such noms regardless of the potential
> > "deletability" of the article.
> >
> > If an article is to be destroyed, then let it start with a good faith
> > nomination from a real user, not somebody's sock/meat puppet.
>
> ...dear god.
>
> You do realise *we make it impossible* for non-account users to list
> an article for deletion, right? And that the only way to jump through
> all our hoops to, in all honesty and good faith, list an article for
> deletion that you have problems with is to go off, create an account,
> then do it?
>
> Saying "oh, close first-time noms automatically regardless of merit"
> is a stupid idea; it assumes that anyone attempting to contribute to
> the project in a certain way is inherently acting in bad-faith, and
> acts as though this were a given.
>
> [Virtually the second thing I did on enwp was to list an article for
> deletion. If this was the reaction I'd got at the time, I really don't
> think I'd have hung around much]
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
> andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk


The idea needs to be refined. First time noms are fine as long as they're
not renoms of something recently closed and as long as the nomination is
based in policy. Bad faith noms are usually either IDONTLIKEIT or they
contain false statements.

Mgm