[WikiEN-l] Soft deletion redux

[Mark Gallagher]

G'day Charlotte,

> On 5/4/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>By the way, I don't consider AFD binary, there's already more than 2
>>possible results (aka merging, redirect, etc). But the lack of those
>>appearing on AFD, shows there's too many people thinking black and white.
>>Instead of people blanket voting delete, I would love them to address why
>>for example the merge another user suggested isn't appropriate.
> 
> Or worse, I've seen people write AFD nominations which clearly say
> "this should be merged", and it gets deleted anyway due to the
> drive-by vote count.

That strikes me as bad closing by the admin concerned.


Then again, after so long away I imagine my own approach to AfD when I 
was an admin has since become unfashionable.


Cheers,

-- 
Mark Gallagher
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