Having the article sit there doing nothing for five
days isn't too bad.
Exactly.
Sometimes, though, the prod tag gets removed, at which
point I have to
make a procedural listing at AfD and reset the five-day countdown to
when the article can go, which does make me wonder if it's really worth
it.
Yeah, that is annoying... maybe PRODs should have to go through an
extra step to be removed: One person adds a PROD tag, another changes
it to a DISPUTED-PROD tag, another can then remove the tag, after
which it has to go through AfD to be deleted. Admins can delete
DISPUTED-PRODs after the usual 5 days (or maybe 2 days after the
dispute is added if it is disputed in the last 2 days of the 5 day
period). Basically, this means 2 people have to agree in order for a
PROD to be removed (yes, this can be got around with sockpuppets, but
there isn't much we can do about that that we don't do already).
On the other hand, quite a few get speedied by another
administrator
shortly after I've PRODded them -- in which case I've wasted time and
may as well just have disposed of it myself. So perhaps for that reason
alone we should either change A7 or agree to stick to it; I don't know.
All admins should follow the same set of rules - there shouldn't be a
lottery involved in CSD, an article should be either deleted or kept
regardless of who is patrolling CSD at the time.