Snowspinner wrote:
Another argument in favor, to my mind, is that even
for experts,
citation takes time. Research is a non-trivial task. On an article,
this is fine - it's not a race, and citations and information can be
added whenever. Sooner is nice, eventually is acceptable.
Deletion debates, you have five days, assuming you notice it off the
bat. When you get stretches like we're getting with webcomics,
whereby huge strings of comics are nominated in a row, citation-based
responses become impossible. But even in the case of an individual
article on a topic, it is absurd to demand that subject experts get
their work done in five days. Especially when we are so wedded to
process that a closed AfD is growing more and more impossible to
overturn.
Just knowing about the nomination is a problem for an editor with
once-a-week computer access. With a five day cycle an article can be
nominated and deleted befor he comes back the following week.
Ec