Now I’m actually sick of repeating myself about how I’m sick of repeating myself
You actually have a much better memory then I do about all this stuff. I had forgot about a lot of it, including Constantine being involved at one point. That was quit awhile back if I remember correctly.
I won’t preform anymore deletion requests until its resolved either. Although I don’t want it to be used as a stalling tactic by people who aren’t commenting to get their way. If need be, at some point we should just go ahead with the next step in the process without them (that includes Nakaner not responding).
Maybe. I guess we will see. I don’t think he will though. I think he’s slightly more reasonable then he initially lets on and he also cares about his imagine. Everything we do here comes at the cost of some social capital with other users. I imagine I have way more of it I’m willing to burn in this then he does.
Although I could be wrong, I still don’t think that means a single DWG member has more clout for how things should be ran compared to say a larger group of Wiki members, wiki and forum admins, or even other DWG members. There’s still a process that has to be followed also. The only instances where I’ve seen that not be the case is with a semi unspoken social contract type thing where people that have been here longer or have special “geography” degrees get preferred treatment, like not being called out for bad behavior when they should be. That doesn’t cover things like edit warring though in my opinion.
I’m still undecided on it. I guess its an option and I can see some situations where it might be useful, but I agree with Tigerfell’s critique of it. Ultimately id like some more robust guidelines put in place. It could be used to complement them though. One instance where I think it might be helpful is with abandoned proposal drafts that have very little or no content, and its not clear why the proposals was abandoned. In those instances a lot of times reasons for the abandonment aren’t given and in some cases it might not be clear if deletion is necessarily the best option.
So, I think a good alternative would be to send the person who created the proposal a message saying that its being considered for deletion and if the user doesn’t mind we would like to move it to their user space instead. Along with also asking them why the proposal was abandoned so it can be factored in. In cases of older proposals though there’s a good chance the user isn’t even around anymore. So if there’s no response the page should be deleted, because generally I think its a bad idea to screw with peoples user pages without their permission. I got chided for it myself a few times even when they were superficial changes to their talk pages. So transferring pages to a person’s user space probably isn’t that good either. I only step on people’s toes when its necessary ;).