[WikiEN-l] To boldy delete what no one had deleted before!

[Alvaro García]

It would be great that, instead of deleting an article, the usual  
deleters would be given a 'flag as source-less/needs improvement'  
where it would go to a Wikipedia section of poor articles, where  
people who know would improve them.
And, no article, in whatever section, could be deleted unless there's  
a general consensus.


--
Alvaro

On 13-01-2009, at 5:22, Noah Salzman <noah at salzman.net> wrote:

>
> On Jan 13, 2009, at 12:10 AM, WJhonson at aol.com wrote:
>
>> These sub-surface articles would not be googleable let's say, so
>> reader
>> wouldn't get side-tracked into thinking they are "acceptable" in the
>> mainstream,
>> but they would be present for people already in-world to read and
>> edit.
>
>
> Makes sense to me. If the "articles for deletion" process is usurped
> by the "articles for purgatory" process then it transforms the debate
> entirely. If you keep losing at chess than change the game to
> checkers, rather than continuing to complain about losing at chess.
>
> Deletion could remain a standard process but with much clearer and
> stricter guidelines. Perhaps, it could be changed to "innocent until
> proven guilty" as opposed to the deletion process now where the
> defendant has to do a ton of busy work to save a "guilt-assumed"
> article.
>
> As someone somewhat removed from the politics of the project, my main
> question is what does the step-by-step process look like for making
> this change happen? I imagine there is more than one path: grass roots
> consensus building vs lobbying The Powers That Be?
>
> My apologies if that is an amusingly naive way of putting it.
>
> --Noah--
>
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