On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:46 AM, David Goodman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > > > I agree. Pure Wiki Deletion is the only permanent solution. - causa sui _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
