Oh yes, you're right.

Speedy deletion would be required on some case.


--
Alvaro

On 13-01-2009, at 14:18, "Martijn Hoekstra"  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 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]> w 
> rote:
>> 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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