G'day Dan,
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Worldtraveller's ideas have been proposed in several forms before, but AfD zealots always reject the idea as it would make their past-time harder (they'd have to go and edit talk pages, rather than edit all the votes on one big AfD page).
This is why I said it's impossible to get any sort of consensus for replacing AfD - the people who hang out there don't want it changed, and will (and have) vociferously oppose any proposals.
When you're quite finished assuming bad faith, the people discussing how to improve AfD are meeting over ========================> there.
In fact, there's even somebody by the name of "Dan Grey" who's submitted the odd reasonable post. I assume, from what you've written above, that he's actually an imposter of some kind.