[WikiEN-l] Attn: RFC about reforming criteria for speedy deletion policy

[Andrew Turvey]

I sincerely hope this proposal is never adopted. It doesn't "simplify" CSD, it loosens it; making it easier for articles to be speedy deleted. 

The number of new users, new article and edits is steadily decreasing. Deletionism is partly to blame. Why bother put effort into creating articles if someone is going to come along and delete it five minutes later? Carry on this way and people will just give up contributing and Wikipedia will quickly decay away under the weight of vandalism. 

Speedy deletion is only reasonable because it is so tightly defined. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> 
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org> 
Sent: Thursday, 21 May, 2009 13:38:10 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Attn: RFC about reforming criteria for speedy deletion policy 

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney at gmail.com> wrote: 
> There is currently an RFC in progress regarding proposed reforms to the 
> [[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion]] policy. The discussion is about 
> reforming the prescriptive language of the policy to bring it into line with 
> fundamental Wikipedia principles and policies such as [[WP:NOT#BUREAUCRACY]] 
> and [[WP:POLICY]]. All editors are welcome to add statements and participate 
> in the discussion at 
> [[Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion/Simplify_policy_RfC]]. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion/Simplify_policy_RfC 

Link provided above. 

Carcharoth 

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