Bryan Derksen wrote:
DRV is only particularly useful for retrieving deleted stuff since you can't make an AfD nomination for an article that doesn't exist.
Question: Why not? If DRV is so poisonous, why not make it so that someone unhappy with a deleted article just has to convince one of the ~800 admins to give the matter the benefit of the doubt and undelete, then list on AFD again. This would basically turn DRV into a noticeboard where admins can pick up articles that are not obviously delete-worthy. Of course, doing this too often would be just as popular as repeatedly AFDing the same article over and over, and should be... discouraged. I have no sympathy for AFD, by the way (and don't want to protect it from additional workload), so if it is able to deal with the torrent of crap it is flooded with now, it can deal with the handfull of contested deletions as well.
grm_wnr