QUOTE(jayvdb @ Mon 27th April 2009, 5:25am)
QUOTE(MZMcBride @ Mon 27th April 2009, 3:12pm)
I've advocated for killing Wikiquote and for killing the entire Simple series. (Or moving them to another Foundation, at least.) Simple English Wikiquote simply drips with fail.
I enjoyed the "Wikiquote must die" discussion; where is the "please dont be simple" edition?
The last legitimate attempt to kill Simple was here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_f...h_(2)_WikipediaOf course the key issue is that we allow people who primarily contribute to the Simple projects to vote. Which is nicely democratic, but ends up killing each and every proposal to end these mistakes. And it's anathema to advertise the discussions on any project other than the projects being discussed, so nobody ever knows about these obscure votes at Meta.
Some sort of weighted voting system combined with a better advertising system would likely work much better.
For reference, this is the most recent discussion that I'm aware of regarding disbanding all Wikiquotes:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_F...nding_Wikiquote