On 2/11/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Who /is/ representative of Wikipedia consensus on deletion?
No one -- which is why I object so strongly to the idea that deletion should be treated differently from other edits; or that deletion should be regarded as "final" because of an AFD, as if "the community" has decided that an article should be deleted. That is a farce. An AFD means that the people who happened to be looking at AFD at the time thought the article should be deleted. Those people can and do make mistakes, which is why those mistakes should be easily reversible.
No edit on Wikipedia, including deletion, should be regarded as final or as having a mandate from some immutable process. There is no good reason to treat deletion differently than any other edit.
Ryan