[WikiEN-l] deletionism in popular culture

[Ryan Delaney]

That's usually a worthwhile suggestion. The reason that won't work here,
though, is that PWD requires edits to the software to work. In other words,
this is an all-or-nothing enterprise-- we'd probably have to get the whole
project behind the complete overhaul before anything could be done.
Obviously, this is a major barrier to implementation.

- causa sui

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:

> The best thing to do with this kind of thing is just to try it on a
> random subset of AFDs. If it works, scale it up, if it doesn't, kill
> it.
>
> On 06/11/2009, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Surreptitiousness <
> > surreptitious.wikipedian at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Ryan Delaney wrote:
> >> > imes, as with fast-developing current events, there are eyewitness
> >> > accounts that get added to the article before they appear in printed
> >> > news
> >> > sources. In these cases, it's better to remove the content and wait
> for
> >> the
> >> > verifiable source. Pure Wiki Deletion allows us to do that easily --
> we
> >> can
> >> > blank the page, and then restore it when citations become available.
> >> >
> >> Pure wiki deletion would need a culture shift though, wouldn't it?  I
> >> mean, you'd have to get that bot turned off which reverts page blanking,
> >> for starters. But I'd definitely be willing to give it a go.
> >>
> >>
> > I think it definitely would require a massive cultural shift, and it
> would
> > be best to "feel out" the climate before diving headfirst into making
> > proposals.  Frankly, deletion process is so entrenched at this point that
> > serious reform will always be a long shot, and that's why my intuition is
> > that we should be prepared for this to take months- or years. There are a
> > lot of people who don't read this mailing list who will get hives when
> they
> > find out that someone wants to take away their precious rules. If and
> when
> > we do move forward with this, we should prepare the ground for these
> folks
> > before we go live with proposals and RFCs. I'm all ears if there are any
> > suggestions for a gameplan of getting this done.
> >
> > - causa sui
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