User:Sj/Review

AfD is fundamentally about review -- just the corner of review that requires community consensus: delection (singled out because of its disruptive nature, and again when admin powers were created because admins have to actually do the deletion).

Seeing an "AFD" notice on the top of a page is always a frustrating shock to a good-faith author; the nominations are usually posed in a bad-faith way (not consciuosly; implicitly because of the structure of the forum), and discussions ignore the important review aspects of even the speediest deletion: was the author well-intentioned? how can they be notified to keep their interest? will something like the article one day be useful? is any of the information or reference-list worth keeping in another format?

Concept: set up 'Articles for Review' which is the first place to bring most such discussions. Add assessment of the intent of the author in all deletion processes, as this should at least influence the handlingn of communication with the author. Come up with an equivalent speedy assessment for current 'speedy delete' candidates which are created in good faith. [the idea of treating vandalism and spam the same way as an hour of good-faith effort on the part of a contributor is outlandish].

enough abstractions!
We don't need to speak in the abstract, when there are a hundred case studies a day. Here are some examples, in the following format:
 * ARTICLE NAME on AFD : reason. origin-date; # of edits; # of refs; special features;
 * level of communication with other page editors or authors | type of debate

ARTICLE NAME below is red, brown, purple, green, or blue, depending on how suitable it seems to me to the core of AfD:
 * Red : a traditional deletion discussion,
 * Brown : a deletion discussion that should be handled politely (very new material, possibly useful w/ explicit claims of notability, uncertain language issues, new editors),
 * Purple : a mixed discussion, part review and part deletion (not solely "AfD"; a 'cleanup or delete' nom, material that should at worst be merged elsewhere)
 * Green : a review discussion that should not be framed in terms of deletion (good material, long-standing editors, clear links to other works, active discussion), or
 * Blue : a discussion about content that is so clearly unsuited for AfD [good, long-standing, high-author-count articles with useful, sourced information] that any contributor to the original article can be expected to be offended by the existence of the thread.)

taken from AfD on 20:54, 15 July 2007 (UTC) :
 * Bubbles the Clown : NN. Apr 9 2007; 70 edits; 14 refs; audio version May 10
 * no "AfD" edit summary. clearly useful info, discussed in terms of 'delete or no?'
 * Jim Smith (NASCAR) : NN.  Nov 2005; 12 edits; stub.
 * edit summary, no author notice | keeps
 * JFW : Neologism.  Nov 2005; 8 edits; stub.
 * edit summary, no clear author | deletes
 * Isobel (framework) : NN.  Dec 2005; 8 edits; stub on open-source tool.
 * edit summary, no author notice (original author rel to amorrow) | del
 * Katie Hopkins : NOTE. May 22 2007; 250 edits; 76 footnotes; original PD photo
 * no edit summary, no author notice | many keeps
 * Rainbow Ojamajo Doremi : NN, A7.  May 19 2007; 8 edits; 2 Spanish external links
 * edit summary for afd, not for csd, no author notice | deletes, including a speedy request; implying (via A7) assumption of bad faith (quick glance suggests this is not called for, and the article explicitly suggests why this one is notable)
 * El Rancho High School : NN. May 16 2007; 50 edits;; local color but no refs
 * edit summary | keeps; first keep cleaned up and added 6 refs (T+30min)
 * Louis Carlet : NN, dup, promo. October 2006; 60 edits; 8 refs; 5-section talk, stub. survived AfD on Feb 20 by same nom who regularly edits the article
 * edit summary, long-standing personal discussion b/t two editors | 1 keep
 * My restructuring of NUGW makes the Carlet article even more unecessary and irrespective of the merge result, I will be pushing for its deletion due to duplication of content. -- Sparkzilla 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 *  Pushing for deletion is totally your prerogative to do, although if the merge nomination fails there will be no reason (or basis) for retaining the Carlet material you moved to the NUGW page. Statisticalregression 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Kendo the definitive guide : NN. July 13 - 2 days ago; 4 edits; no refs/detail yet; new user.
 * edit summary, author notice; for prod then AfD | 1 delete.
 * "Article was prodded; prodding was immediately removed by creator. A few days later, no new changes." NB: "a few days" == 1.8 days.  "no new changes" == "a 2-sentence stub was expanded to 4 sentences."
 * BulletBall : NN.  Feb 17 2007, talk pg from March 2006; 60 edits (much spam/rv); 4 external links; talk pg includes promo "the inventor can be reached at [link]"
 * edit summ, no clear author | deletes
 * EastEnders off set episodes : NOT#PLOT.  no discussion yet.
 * 1812 Overture in popular culture : NN, directory of things. June 9 2007; 6 edits; 1 ref, list of 40 instances
 * edit summ, no author notice, said author being User:Bogdangiusca | 1 del 1 keep 1 merge. nom explicitly asks that content not be merged anywhere.
 * Longest reign name / List of monarchs with very long names : hopeless list.  indeed.  no metric, no sources, little extra info.
 * edit summ | deletes.
 * Lesbian (disambiguation) : not useful, only refers to three meanings.  speedily kept.
 * 15 Who Shot Phil?  : NN, plot; cleanup-AFD.  August 16, 2006; 35 edits; 4 refs; popular plot thread over a season, not a single episode plot
 * | 3 deletes, 6 keeps; survived previous AfD on June 15, since when no edits.
 * 16 Leon Toubin :
 * 17 Omorashi Sakura :
 * 18 Storylines of EastEnders (2000s)
 * 19 Johannes Kornfeld
 * 20 Kaltura
 * 21 Gay (disambiguation) : speedily kept
 * 22 Boolean programming method
 * 23 Boolean Programming Method
 * 24 Charlotte Eve
 * 25 10 longest duration films of Bollywood
 * 26 GlavUpDK
 * 27 Charles West (major)
 * 28 List of Superstars to Hold the WWE & World Heavyweight Championships
 * 29 Disians
 * 30 Azurewrath
 * 31 Hervey Bay Bombers AFC
 * 32 Slut Night
 * 33 The Peel (London)
 * 34 List of controversial inventors
 * 35 Bugsy Siegel (rapper) : speedily deleted
 * 36 Monica Leech
 * 37 Aspergum
 * 38 Love Brewster : boldly redirected to List of passengers on the Mayflower
 * 39 Lebonah
 * 40 Livery Dole
 * 41 M-nitroaniline
 * 42 Landlubber
 * 43 Lean office processes
 * 44 Jesus Miracle Crusade
 * 45 Ignorance-based view
 * 46 Rei Kimura
 * 47 Chaos Space Marines
 * 48 Menschenaffe
 * 49 List of songs about masturbation : relisted for more discussion; survived 3 prior AfDs; deleted this time.
 * 50 Lucid dreaming in popular culture
 * 51 Requirted
 * 52 Pokémon in other media
 * 53 XYplorer
 * 54 Frequentis
 * 55 Conservapedia  : speedy keep.
 * 56 Daniel DiLorenzo : withdrawn nom after cleanup
 * 57 Peter Van Dijck
 * 58 Bugsy siegel(rapper) : speedily deleted (and nommed twice)
 * 59 Jenn Gotzon
 * 60 CallWeaver
 * 61 Googlized World
 * 62 Plastic Scouser
 * 63 List of political Google bombs
 * 64 Rules of chess
 * 65 Chess strategy  :game guide. 2002; 350 edits; 7 external links; 7 screens of carefullly-written text & history
 * quiet edit summary, no author note, no talk-page note for 5-yr old article | keeps
 * WP:NOT Wikipedia is not a strategy guide, or any other kind of game guide. There is nothing here other than informally written strategy for a game. This is more appropriate to a place like wikibooks. WP:ILIKEIT are not valid reasons for keeping this article. Crossmr
 * WP:NOT Wikipedia is not a strategy guide, or any other kind of game guide. There is nothing here other than informally written strategy for a game. This is more appropriate to a place like wikibooks. WP:ILIKEIT are not valid reasons for keeping this article. Crossmr


 * 66 Chess tactics
 * 67 Skanke Family Association