On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Noah Salzman wrote:
Makes sense to me. If the "articles for
deletion" process is usurped
by the "articles for purgatory" process then it transforms the debate
entirely. If you keep losing at chess than change the game to
checkers, rather than continuing to complain about losing at chess.
It's already happened, with articles for deletion replaced by "merging" on
the
grounds that merging is not deletion.