Rick wrote:
But that's not what's being proposed here. What's being proposed is, if anybody coming into the discussion thinks that the reason for the listing isn't acceptable, they can just delete it from the VfD page. Why not just let it run its course, and vote Keep? Because radical inclusionists are afraid they'd lose the vote. ~~~~
No, I'm proposing it (not a strawman "radical inclusionist") because there's a shitload of nominations that have had *no listed rationale*. They're on the order of "I've never heard of it so it's not notable" - measuring the content of Wikipedia by their ignorance. They're nominations that, per the policy *shouldn't be there at all*, and make VFD unfeasibly long.
Also, VFD isn't actually "votes" - it's an attempt to establish consensus.
Pretty obviously, anyone deleting a nomination in the bogus manner you describe will be reverted in damn short order. I expect you will likely be the one doing so.
- d.