User talk:Sam/Promtus

Interesting but in my view ultimately unworkable

This PROMTUS proposal is interesting. I don't think it is the first time something like this has been sugggested, but I think the problem with forks and how to handle redirects makes it unworkable. If you leave pages in the main encyclopedia linked to these "user pages", then that is no different to keeping them. If you make those links redlinks, then people will click on them and create a new article. If you preserve the mainspace page with a soft redirect (saying "see here for a userspace version of this page) then that just looks bad. This feels too must like ghettoising certain types of content into subsections of the encyclopedia. I think I prefer the current AfD and PROD system, which actually works out OK if you can provide sources, which is as it should be. Carcharoth (talk) 23:41, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree. I think the intentions are laudable and that we do need to do something to address the apparent hostility that permeates the current XFD processes, but this proposal seems unworkable. We already have civility as a policy and assume good faith as a guideline, but somehow these don't seem to keep contributors from feeling beaten up at XFD. Perhaps the XFD regulars simply need reminders that the processes are inherently hostile and to always remember that there's a person behind whatever is being deleted. -- Rick Block (talk) 17:52, 24 February 2008 (UTC)