2009/3/4 Dominic <[email protected]> > Sue Gardner wrote: > > I am just clarifying - "default to delete unless consensus to keep" would > be > > a change from current state, right? > > In terms of policy, "default to delete" is the current state for BLPs. > To be more exact, the important bit is: "If there is no rough consensus > and the page is not a BLP describing a relatively unknown person, the > page is kept and is again subject to normal editing, merging or > redirecting as appropriate." However, that is at least somewhat new > (several months old, I think), and I am not certain how universally > administrators apply it at this point. The relevant policy is at > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DP#Deletion_discussion> > > I'm confused. Doesn't the current (English) policy say "if there's no consensus ... the page is kept." So, default to _keep_, rather than default to delete...?
It's only the English policy, so I realize it's not necessarily representative/reflective of any of the other language versions, regardless. But in general, my understanding is that "default to keep" is more-or-less standard practice Wikipedia-wide (as much as all language versions can be said to have a standard practice), and the English policy seems to support that. Recapping this piece of the thread: It seems to me that "default to delete" is not widely considered satisfactory, if it is interpreted to mean an automatic or near-automatic deletion upon request. Human judgment needs to be applied. Erik had proposed that articles which meet these three criteria be deleted upon request: 1) they are not balanced and complete, 2) the subject is only marginally notable, and 3) the subject wants the article deleted. This would shift the bar towards a more deletionist stance for BLPs, but would preserve articles which are either complete and balanced, _or_ which are about people who are clearly self-evidently notable. Assuming there is some consensus about what clearly self-evidently notable means, or that some consensus could be created ..... does that proposal make sense to people here? _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
