Yeah, but that won't work. It needs at least an exception for speedy
deletion. Slowly I'm starting to notice im heading more in the
direction of hardcore inclusionists, on grounds off [[WP:HARMLESS]]
and [[WP:USEFULL]], and stop seeing the use of notability guidelines.
That said, even if only 1 in 5 AfD deletions represent true consensus,
then that would still amount to about 6 discussions for which we
require full community consensus a day, and I just think and hope our
community would like to have some time left to write articles instead
of making decissions on deleting articles.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Alvaro García <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 13, 2009, at 12:10 AM, [email protected] 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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