[Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

MZMcBride z at mzmcbride.com
Sun Apr 10 22:16:28 UTC 2011


Risker wrote:
>> The deletion process does look daunting, but actually if you just
>> clunk through the instructions,
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AfD#How_to_list_pages_for_deletion
>> it's pretty easy, and I say that as someone with a template phobia.
> 
> Keeping in mind that I too am an experienced editor, it still took me nearly
> 5 minutes plus several open tabs to file an AfD the other day. I keep being
> told "just install Huggle/Twinkle/Friendly/some other script" but because I
> work on a wide range of browsers, these cause problems for me.  Having said
> that, the main issue was time and number of steps, not legibility or
> physical difficulty.

The entire deletion process is broken and needs to be fixed. Werdna was
working on an extension to make nominating a page for deletion less horrible
(<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Werdna/dev>), but I don't believe there
has been any recent activity on this.

MZMcBride






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