On 6/10/07, michael west michawest@gmail.com wrote:
All tags have a "help to improve this article" apart from Speedy. it is nut cruching if you have improved an article and it was deleted. There isn't a simple answer to xfd but it works with articles written by just a couple of authors. Could there be a new 30 day PROD that puts articles under review and de-robot them (so that they dont pop up in search lists) definately yes.
I am willing to bet this would be about as successful in saving articles from deletion as [[Wikipedia:Peer review]] is in improving articles to featured standard. PR has become nothing more than a procedural step on the road to featured status; such a deletion process would be nothing more than a procedural step on the road to deletion.
Simply put, people are not going to volunteer to do jobs that don't have much of a visible end result. An action that results in an article being kept is effectively keeping the status quo; hardly glamorous. Debating an article's deletion or featuring however is much more sexy, even if less productive.
There are a few brave souls who do the job of trawling through our deletion pages and peer review page looking for articles to improve; sadly they are far outnumbered by those who prefer to focus on disputing citation styles for FA and notability for xfD/PROD.
Johnleemk