[WikiEN-l] Discussions for Deletion (DFD)

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"Daniel R. Tobias" wrote
 
> Regarding the proposal made recently on this list for a "Links for 
> Deletion" area to conduct discussions on whether a particular link 
> ought to be kept or deleted in a project, talk, or user page (main 
> article space was explicitly disclaimed from this process), it would 
> seem that the point of this (besides creating another highly 
> bureaucratized and highly contentious venue within Wikipedia, and 
> hence achieving the seemingly contradictory aims of both creating 
> more wikidrama, and making it stultifyingly boring) is to encourage 
> discussion about what links should be allowed to be used in the 
> course of discussion. 

I agree about the "boring" business. I wasn't intending to make it interesting. The projection of wikidrama was also one I made. The point would be, if I may say so, that a normal Wikipedia scheme of things would be applied to tackle an issue that otherwise can come back once an month with no apparent progress in sight in the debate. (I am not one of those who thinks 'debating' SlimVirgin is anything positive.)

<snip reductio ad absurdum>

I note the paucity of other suggestions, and the feeling (I share it) that the ArbCom case "attack sites" will not settle policy.

Charles

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