Jake Nelson wrote:
[...] I'm going to propose again what I proposed once before: a temporary moratorium on deletions. Let's say two weeks. Copyvios will be the only exception. Blanking can be used if there's felt to be no value at all to the content, but if there's verifiable information in it, leave it. Let's try it and see what happens, hmmm?
I think this would be an interesting experiment; gives hardcore deletionists an incentive to think about other ways to control junk, like creating [[Junk Article]] and making bad articles redir to it - moves debate from VfD to the talk pages where it should be in the first place. Notify on VfD, then protect it; and as Vicki mentions, still allow instant deletion of the asdfasdf stuff.
After two weeks, if [[Junk Article]] has a thousand redirs pointing to it, deletionists can see "see, we told you so."
Stan