[WikiEN-l] editorial oversight, re: afd, fac, etc.

[Ray Saintonge]

Keitei wrote:

>On Jan 12, 2007, at 16:11, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
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>>I suppose now might be a decent time to trot out an old idea: what
>>about giving WikiProjects a greater role in the deletion process?
>>They are already (for the most part) the natural gathering places for
>>people with some interest in a particular topic (and, by association,
>>some degree of knowledge of it); presumably, we could therefore expect
>>that the consensus of participants in a WikiProject would thus be a
>>little more informed on topics within that project's scope than the
>>consensus of randomly selected editors.
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>>
>I wonder if holding deletion debates within WikiProject space would  
>be a feasible or good idea. The idea would be creating consensus over  
>whether something was notable/verifiable enough among those familiar  
>with the topic, so as to create a more nuanced debate. 
>
Absolutely

>A time limit  
>would probably be not such a great idea, but once consensus was  
>reached, deletion could be requested. 
>
I don't know if we can handle that much sanity.

>Of course there isn't a  
>WikiProject for every topic, and not every nominator knows where to  
>find relevant WikiProjects. 
>
A valid criticism, but couldn't we somehow use categories to do this?

>However, this would curb uninformed drive- 
>by votes and make deletion discussions hopefully more debate and less  
>polling. It'd also be a huge reform to deletion process, which is  
>entirely unwanted if I read community feeling correctly. Oh well.
>
That depends on which community you are talking about. 

Ec