Chris Howie wrote:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Kurt Maxwell Weber
<kmw(a)armory.com> wrote:
You might also want to take a look at the recent
[[Klondike Kalamity]] AfD and
the DRV that I just posted...it's an excellent example of a horrible deletion
by trigger-happy demolition men.
A cursory glance suggests that this deletion was in very poor
judgment. I'm tempted to go rogue(/rouge) and just undelete it. If I
didn't know I'd get thrown against the wall.
A while back I was going through some old AfDs looking for "merge and
delete" GFDL violations, and when I found them I simply redirected and
undeleted them without asking anyone or going through any sort of
"process". Not one was ever challenged, that I know of, or likely even
noticed. Now granted changing a redlink into a redirect is not something
likely to draw attention, but I think for really egregious examples of
poorly done AfDs a "bold-revert-discuss" approach could work just fine.
If anyone complains it can then be taken to DRV or wherever else these
things are supposed to be discussed.
Tensions and objections may be further eased if we focus our efforts on
reviewing AfDs that are over a year old, or some other such arbitrary
threshold. We're more likely to get fresh faces reviewing our actions
that way and even those people who did participate in them will have had
lots of time for any heat to fade.