On 9/20/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
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Bottom line: AfD doesn't scale. Whatever problems may exist with AfD's tendency to randomly delete a selection of perfectly reasonable articles, and VFU's growing unwillingness to rectify this, the problem will decrease in significance in the long term as page creation rates accelerate inexorably beyond the reach of AfD, and possibly even any defensible extension of speedy deletion.
Perhaps requiring editors to sit a short examination on deletion policy would help to keep inappropriate nominations down and increase the overall capacity of AfD, but this would not address the problem of scale.
AFD only doesn't scale for people who want to vote on all listed articles. Only vote for articles that need the votes and to ones where you can add something to the discussion. Based on a stable amount of around 100 listed articles on a given day, it should take a voter over an hour-and-half to go through all the nominations which is just not possible.(This assumes they spend at least 1 minute checking the article and formulating their vote).
If anyone can get through AFD and vote on all nominations under an hour (as someone previously stated in some AFD discussion on this list), either they're only checking speedy deletable articles, or they're not giving the article due attention.