Have you looked at the crap that's been deleted lately? Much of it *was* on Cleanup first, sometimes for over a month, and most of the rest either doesn't belong here, or is such terrible nonsense as to be useless as a savageable starting point for a future article.
A sampling: [[JumpTheCroc]], an idiosyncratic term coined on Wikipedia [[Mac OS XI]], a made-up mac rumor that even the mac-rumor sites don't carry [[The mo]], an animal invented by the submitter with a somewhat amusing backstory [[Soylent Greens]], a fictitious political party invented by the submitter
Look at [[List of nicknames for George W. Bush]] that article was also deleted. :-(
So I disagree; I think VfD is working perfectly fine. Do those who think otherwise actually read and participate in it (The Cunctator excepted, because I know he does)?
Some chose to work inside the system others outside it.
BL