On Nov 9, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 11/10/07, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/30/wikiwatch-how-did-...
Oh look. Our webcomics deletionism has driven off contributors and hurt the project.
I AM offering a solution. It goes like this: Don't send Wikimedia
Foundation your money
until they change the system. Wikipedia should be writer-friendly,
encouraging improvement
to articles, constructively criticizing them where appropriate, and erring
on the side of
inclusion.
Solution? I've got your solution: magic it better!
Sure, speedy deletion sucks, but it's the best we've got. Of course we want real solutions.
Speedy deletion works great.
People who tag articles within minutes of their creation and don't contact the article writers to ask for an assertion of notability are a problem.
A7 remains the most misused CSD. Its error rate remains unacceptably high, and it is the culprit in most of the worst newbie-biting deletions we do.
-Phil