On 10/1/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/10/2007, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/1/07, David Goodman dgoodmanny@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.
If you mean that people are so entrenched in bureaucracy that they miss the big picture, I'll agree with you on this point.
—C.W.