[WikiEN-l] BJAODN

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

Kingboyk and I thought the time had come to prune the 'pedia of the
sixty pages of often acutely unfunny vandalism preserved under the
general heading of BJAODN.  Not remove BJAODN, a collection of
genuinely if often unintentionally funny edits, but the 59 subsequent
archives.  The mechanism we employed was to MfD the current one,
because it did not seem worthwhile tagging nearly sixty articles if
there was clear consensus to keep.  That didn't work: a lot of people
think we want to delete all BJAODN (we don't, just prune it down to a
rational size); some people want it kept outright as "harmless" or
whatever; some say they won't advocate deletion of one, only if the
whole lot is bundled.  It's a mess.  We'd like to know what, of
anything, is the best way forward.  We are both still of the opinion
that keeping copies of many hundreds of decisively atrocious edits,
the majority of which do not rise above the level of childish, is
probably not worth the server resources committed to it.  Plus, the
insane mountain of crap makes it hard to sot the genuinely creative
and funny ones, which was the point.  I also feel that some editors
deliberately introduce nonsense in the hope of making BJAODN, but
that's an aside.

The debate is at [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Close
Encounters of the Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense Kind]] if
anyone wants to pitch in there, but there may be a better place to
discuss this.

Guy (JzG)
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