On 6/6/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 05/0 This is just *stupid*. This is what putting something up for deletion is *for* - saying "This article may be deleted, please look at it and give your opinion" - and there is no more effective way to do it than AFD, for all its faults. I have no idea why you believe someone needs to be personally prejudiced towards deleting the article in order to raise this question
It's a really annoying habit. There are genuinely articles that should be deleted out there. And plenty of others that aren't, but were nominated for crappy reasons. Nominating articles apparently at random, just to give AfD'ers something to think about is just creating work for everyone, with little benefit.
If you're not sure whether an article should exist, use {{nn}} or something and start a discussion on the talk page. Nominating for AfD is saying "This should be deleted, all in favour?!" Not for "What do people think?"
Steve