On 6/19/06, Keith Old keithold@gmail.com wrote:
Excellent point. Many people whinge about articles for deletion on this forum but few people vote.
I find that Dragons flight's AFD summary is an excellent way to find ongoing debates that are on the knife edge, so to speak (and much easier than trawling through a hundred debates a day): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dragons_flight/AFD_summary
There's even a page specifically for controversial debates, ones with at least 5 people participating and between 50-80% delete: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dragons_flight/AFD_summary/Controversial This seems to work fairly well; it correctly picked out the Resonance AfD as controversial, for example.
For the record, I think the Articles for Deletion process gets things right most of the time. In my view, there are much fewer problems than with speedy deletion. I am yet to be convinced that there is a better process than articles for deletion.
I agree. People have been saying it is broken for as long as I've been here and it seems to work ok. There are problems at the margins, but I would expect that from any process, and AfD gets it "right" probably 90-95% of the time or higher. All it needs is some people participating who put a little thought into their comments, and some admins who put a little thought into closing debates.