On 22/11/2007, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
There are three problems to relying on AfD alone
- the load on AfD is everything has to come there because there are
no clear guidelines for people trying to write articles in good faith 2. the impossibility of holding a rational discussion on AfD without some rules to refer to in the argument--it all becomes a matter of whether ILIKEIT. 3. lack of consistence (and we deal with this by actually saying we dont need to be consistent, the tell-tell sign of a immature system that has defined neither its practices or its principles.)
Hah, indeed. 3. is the key point. And "notability" (in the sense of the Wikipedia jargon term, rather than any meaning the word may have in generally-used English) is an attempt to arbitrarily force-mature the argument, which of course fails to solve it.
Anyone got an instant solution to AFD on noting the above? We clearly need a deletion system of some sort, but this one is second only to living biographies as a public relations disaster for Wikipedia. Has anyone got a grand unified theory to hand that could solve it? (Hopefully not based on [[E8 (mathematics)]].)
- d.