[WikiEN-l] Non administrators closing deletion debates

[Andrew Gray]

2008/9/16 Christiano Moreschi <moreschiwikiman at hotmail.co.uk>:
>
> I don't understand this...how can a non-admin close an AfD except
> as a keep, lacking a delete button? Or have they fiddled around the
> speedy deletion process to accommodate this?

A few years ago, what would happen was they'd close it, tag the
article as a speedy-deletion candidate, and mark it as "per the
deletion discussion [here]", or something similar. This was sort of
frowned on, but simply because it meant an extra step - the deleting
admin had to check the discussion was indeed a fair close.

I assume this then became unpopular.

Mind you, I'm not entirely sure how to close a deletion debate
*properly* - I've been an admin three years and never closed one. :-)

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