And then I watched them as they got crushed because a handful of people who didn't know *anything* about the subject matter of browser-based MMORPGs nominated the article for deletion, ignored the comments by the players on the deletion discussion, and then deleted it.

Can we change the Delete operation to "Move to user subpage of initial author"?  Delete is such an awful game over event, a big fat "Insert 200 quarters and bang your head on the screen to continue".

No doubt this has been proposed before but I can't find it in search results. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userfication talks about it but not as a policy.