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@salzman.net wrote:
On Jan 13, 2009, at 12:10 AM, WJhonson@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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