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

[Steven Walling]

Um, acutally "anyone can edit" i.e. any user can create a new article, is
exactly the reverse side to the right to nominate for deletion. and that's
exactly what it means. nomination for AFD isn't a crazy unilateral power
overload to new users. when new users nominate for deletion for obviously
stupid reasons, it is speedily knocked down (like the last AFD for
Conservapedia). Taking away the right to remove articles is just one step
down the slippery slope of removing the right to create articles...and then
edit articles at all (without meeting some absurd bureaucratic meritocracy
or arbitrary time limit).

On 6/20/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/21/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/21/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Absolutely.  We seek to minimise the potential harm where that is
> > > possible without compromising the encyclopedia.
> >
> > As soon as you bring in things not directly related to writing the
> > encyclopedia in (and do no harm isn't at least outside the article on
> > wicca) you compromise the encyclopedia.
>
> I think this is true only if you think that information is neutral,
> irrespective of the form of presentation.  Why would I not want to put
> my son's excellent academic record, or my beautiful and talented
> daughter's photograph, on a notice on every telegraph pole in my
> neighborhood?  I've nothing to be ashamed of, I'm a proud father, and
> they're both adults, so why don't I just go ahead and do that?
>
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