Come join the talk at deletion review if you think its so easy to restore articles. People cant even se ethem to work on without asking an administrator. (though there are some, including myself, who will always userify for a good faith editor).
I think it's more likely that of the 20, not 1, but 10 could be rescued--and some have already been, in some cases by merging. Of the contested afds, I think that's probably the proportion. since we keep fewer than half of the contested ones, we are losing the potential for 50 articles a day, 18,000 a year. I do not consider that trivial. The deletion of improvable articles because the small number of participants at AfD who are interested and willing to rescue them is one of the reasons for people losing the interest in Wikipedia. Who after all actually wants to come to articles for deletion, but those who want to delete articles. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, here's a hypothetical. Let's say out of any twenty given AfD's > that close as "delete", it turns out we get one "wrong". Is that > acceptable? Deletion is hardly the end of the world in itself... > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
