DF wrote:
For those around here that like statistics, I have updated my automated statistical analysis of AFD,
This is fantastic, thank you. I would like to call everyone's attention to something, though. On your table of the most common AFD closers, there is User:Jni, who closed 117 AFDs. Of each AFD he closed, 100% were deletes, with a 30% estimated threshold for delete votes.
If I'm reading this correctly, that means he only needed 30% of the votes to be delete to decide that there was consensus to delete.
If this table isn't proof that we are in a state of pure admin deletion already, because it is totally up to the closing admin what constitutes "consensus" and what doesn't, I don't know what would be. Not only is whether an article to be deleted or kept more in the hands of the closing admin than it is in the hands of the voters, especially in the case of controversial articles (the most important ones!), but the illusion that AFD constitutes the general will of the community makes the decisions arising from it unassailable.
- Ryan