[WikiEN-l] Banality threshold

[Thomas Dalton]

On 01/10/2007, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/1/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Bot assisted afds are way overdue--not all of us can use the various
> > existing programs. It should be built into WP,.
>
> The devs would likely find that suggestion amusing.
>
> The overall significance of the English Wikipedia's "AFD" process is
> probably lower than you think. Our goal is to build a better
> encyclopedia. The programmers' goal is to build better general-purpose
> software for web sites.
>
> Everything else is hoops and turnstiles, particularly this.

I remember discussing this with at least one developer at some point.
It should be doable in a way that doesn't hardcode the English
Wikipedia's policies - or so I'm told. I wasn't convinced - I think
people are so used to the policies that they don't realise when they
are assuming them.