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

[Steven Walling]

>
> doing away with the whole concept of letting "any idiot" who creates an
> account vote on such a
>
matter?


You mean like creating a hated cabal of long-term users or admins who are
the only ones who can delete articles? sounds just great, and really in line
with whole "anyone can edit" idea.

On 6/20/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/20/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> Groovy so delete every article on an election (bound to have a
> negative portrayal of someone). I rather doubt that le Pen likes our
> article on the last french presidential election.
>
>
> > I think it's still running.  Generally those articles aren't
> > biographies, however, so I don't really understand the relevance, if
> > any.
>
> They generally contain biographical details such as say alumni or
> stuff about the head.
>
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