[WikiEN-l] Changing the AfD process (Was: Re: [[Daniel Brandt]] is gone again)

[Steven Walling]

if in doubt, delete? are you kidding me? you can't just have a blanket rule
just totally disregards the individual circumstances and merit of individual
articles. It's a complete violation of the discussion process that makes
Wikipedia what it is.

On 6/20/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/20/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/20/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > We should certainly consider changing the deletion process. I'd favor
> > > a switch to "default to delete" for biographical articles.
> >
> > Define "biographical".
> >
>
> Primarily I'm thinking about living biographies.  If an article is
> substantially a description of events in the life of a living person,
> then we should perhaps consider "if in doubt, delete".  We already
> have a "Living people" category so in most cases it should be easy
> enough to identify such articles.
>
> >
> > See I think depending on the defintion this may be an ah interesting
> > time to reopen the schools debate.
> >
>
> I think it's still running.  Generally those articles aren't
> biographies, however, so I don't really understand the relevance, if
> any.
>
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