On 15/09/05, Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Count the number of articles that go up to AFD every day, and ask yourself if you think its reasonable that everyone write a paragraph
- or even a short explanation - on everything they vote for. Simply
*voting* on everything would take an hour a day at least.
This is one reason why I see AfD as broken: it's very hard to actually get a sensible reasoned debate going. One of the advantages of PWDS is that there is no time limit to reaching consensus on talk pages - plenty of time for a good-quality discussion. Those articles that are really do deserve deletion will probably recieve no more attention after they've gone, unlike where an article on AfD will sometimes get 20+ votes, all "delete" (why do people bother?).
BTW we could still easily list pages which were being debated for deletion - just have a template with a category in it, and a central DynamicPageList. Anything blanked without that template being added to the talk page would be reverted as vandalism.
Dan