Forum:SH Archive/Trash compactor revamp

As you may have noticed, the trash compactor preload template no longer has the "keep", "merge", "redirect", and "delete" headers.

This was a deliberate decision. Please do not re-add them.

First, these are vague. Merge where? Redirect where? People have a tendency to just vote under one of these without specifying where.

Second, it makes no sense for some articles (for example, if merge is proposed, not deletion), and more options may arise.

A single list, ordered chronologically, is enough; furthermore, it forces people to actually type their decisions and reasoning, which requires more thought than simply voting under an appropriate header. Voting is evil, it encourages sockpuppetry, and makes people adopt inane policies requiring a specific number of edits, which merely deals with the symptoms instead of dealing with a larger problem: the problem of voting vs. discussion.

To anyone who says "We are not Wikipedia": we aren't. But stating a knee-jerk rejection of a process change just because "it's Wikipedia" makes even more sense than mindlessly adopting everything from Wikipedia. I'm not adopting mindlessly; I'm comparing their best practices with ours, and adopting whatever feels more reasonable. - Sikon 11:51, 6 May 2007 (UTC)