[WikiEN-l] AFD has gone to a 7 day cycle

[Jon]

George Herbert wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:18 PM, doc <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:
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>>> Al Tally wrote:
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>>>> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_deletion#Proposal_to_change_the_length_of_deletion_discussions_to_7_days
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>>>> I wonder when the plan to inform the community was? It might seem like a
>>>> minor change, but it's a significant one. AFD/VFD has been 5 days since,
>>>> what, when it was created? It's a fairly entrenched system. Pointless in
>>>>         
>> my
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>>>> view to extend by 2 days. People will simply not remember what they've
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>> been
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>>>> practising for years.
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>>> Wow. Where was this advertised? I missed it.
>>>
>>> AdD really does seem a law unto itself. Is 45 people supporting this
>>> change really enough?
>>>       
>> The same can be asked for any proposed policy change. Considering the
>> current size of the project I don't think it's possible to involve
>> enough of the community in any such discussion no matter how it's
>> announced. Remember the spoiler thing a few years ago? Most editors
>> had no clue about the change until spoiler tags were being mass AWBed
>> out of articles.
>>     
>
>
> Pointers on AN?  The policies part of the village pump?
>
> If it was there and I missed it, my bad.  If there wasn't anything there...
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>   
When I wrote the draft for and proposed the IP blocking exemption
policy, a little more than a year age, I know that I publicized it in
many, many places.  Did not take much work, I think we should try to
remember to do these things in the future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:IP_block_exemption/Archive_1#Prenotes

Note the many places it was cross posted.

Best,
Jon

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