[WikiEN-l] I'm disappointed in Wikipedia.

[michael west]

All tags have a "help to improve this article" apart from Speedy. it
is nut cruching if you have improved an article and it was deleted.
There isn't a simple answer to xfd but it works with articles written
by just a couple of authors. Could there be a new 30 day PROD that
puts articles under review and de-robot them (so that they dont pop up
in search lists) definately yes.

On 10/06/07, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/9/07, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is, for me, the really disheartening thing about the deletion
> > debate. If people had approached the subject as reasonable, thinking
> > editors there would be a really interesting discussion of how best to
> > source this article. But people approach it as robots and we get
> > "Delete, neologism."
>
> Interesting thought there;  perhaps it would be much better if we had
> standards for minimum article quality but made efforts to help
> articles pass them, rather than trying to fail them.
>
> -Matt
>
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