Re: [WikiEN-l] Active discussion of policy (and forming community consensus)

I'm at my wits' end over how to handle [[Wikipedia:Preliminary Deletion]]. Half the oppose votes oppose the policy for no reason other than that they prefer a different course of action - how am I to address that when it's clear that a majority of the community prefers this proposal to the alternative this substantial opposition proposes (namely, the expansion of speedy deletion criteria)? Others called it instruction creep, which I've tried to address, though how this proposal can be viewed as complex is beyond me, A minority suggested housing it on the same page as VFD (when a central reason behind this is that VFD is overcrowded).