On 8/4/05, neil klopfenstein rebrane@gmail.com wrote:
The worst thing about VfD, in my opinion, is that once an article is listed, it "can't" be merged/redirected/whatever else. It seems like the majority of the articles on VfD are either no-brainer speedies or no-brainer merges.
My idea for a comprehensive VfD reform: create a 'problem article' tag which replaces {{vfd}} and {{d}}. Admins can delete these articles if they're problematic, editors can remove the tag if they substantially rewrite the article or redirect it. Anything that keeps the problem article tag for a week gets deleted.
Someone could tag an article {{vanity}}, for example, and an admin could delete it on sight, just like articles tagged {{delete}}, as long as it was clearly a vanity page. The ambiguous ones (and there are relatively few of those) could be shuffled off elsewhere, and dealt with on an individual basis.
I like that idea.