User:Andrewa/minimum waste of time
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The goal of Wikipedia is to build an encyclopedia.
In many of the administrative tasks involved, it's necessary to minimise waste of time and not get distracted into debates that have no bearing on the goal. This or minimum waste of time may be abbreviated MWOT and pronounced mmmmm... what?.
Examples
(this section will grow I guess)
- Unsigned comment from a VfD debate: * I guess you'd have to really know more about the culture at the University of Wolverhampton. But you don't, do you? Response: No, we don't need to know. Delete.
- Another comment from VfD: I suggest: simple majority, decision valid until this or another poll says otherwise, minimum voters 12 in 7 days. Response: Pointless suggestion, existing policies will decide the vote. If you want to change the policy procedures exist for that too, as you have repeatedly been told by many Wikipedians.
- And again from VfD discussion: you can't just delete a page because your sources don't show it. Response: We can and do.
- Template:VfD-BunchOfXena - 30 almost certainly fan-fic Xena articles. One lifetime. Verify? Not a chance. Delete 'em all, and if there was anything useful in there, life will go on.
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G'day.
This is a new idea of mine. Feel free to edit it if you can improve it. If it works well, it may well end up in the project namespace, so it should be linked to only from things that won't last too long as active text, such as VfD votes. Please make any comments on my talk page. Andrewa 19:55, 16 May 2004 (UTC)