Even though creating articles without logging in has been disallowed for months now? How is this possible? Do the few articles made through [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation]] get nominated to AfD so often?
Oops I apologise to you and am just going to have to look stupid. I am clearly way behind the times. Bit stupid of me to call someone arrogant when it was me being arrogant to assume I knew it all!
Are you frightened that if contributors get involved we might actually have to keep some of the articles?!
No, actually, I'm not. Thanks for asking, though. In fact, many contributors to AfD'd articles *do* get involved in AfD, and many articles listed at AfD *are* kept, already. As for my personal views, I'm quite a strong inclusionist, myself.
Sorry that was me flying off the handle when I shouldn't have done, as a result of the watchlist thing. I aplogise.
Yes contributors do get involved in some AfDs. And for me they tend to be the most useful AfDs because some content often gets redistributed that would otherwise been deleted. But you would have thought that they would get involved in almost all discussions.
Given the existence of automated listing tools, adding a note to a creator's talk page might not be a heavy burden and can only be helpful for those who are not heavy watchlist users.
PEte