Travis Mason-Bushman wrote:
In fact, I personally think this is the *only* way to call attention to such questionable articles. As I've pointed out on Talk pages, there is a backlog of something like 30-50,000 articles tagged for {{cleanup}}. Simply tagging something questionable for {{cleanup-importance}} only adds to the hidden pile. If an article may not be important enough, putting it up on AFD brings it to the attention of hundreds of Wikipedians - "Hey, look, there's this article I can't make heads or tails of and it may not be encyclopedic. What do y'all think?"
Is this is the *best* way to do that? Probably not. But as long as the {{cleanup}} process is hopelessly broken, AFD is the only effective means of getting a questionable article in the limelight.
-FCYTravis
This is not going to do anything except making AFD even more bogged down than it already is. Have patience- there are lots of articles in need of cleanup, but such is the nature of this project. As the topics covered in our circle of knowledge expands, the circumference will always be getting bigger, too.
-Ryan