On 2/10/06, Philip Welch wikipedia@philwelch.net wrote:
That's impossible--PROD can't handle contested deletions, only uncontested.
Any particular reason why?
All you need to stop PROD is one person to remove the tag. In a dispute, people would edit war over the PROD tag until finally settling down and having a consensus-finding discussion—i.e., engaging in the AfD process.
You are aware that bald reversion is not allowed and that rules like [[WP:3RR]] -- or any admin with sense -- will stop it, right? Do you know that this is exactly the same kind of canned non-objection that an uninitiated person makes against the very idea of an encyclopedia that anyone can edit?
This is why PROD is only a partial replacement. That said, we can
reform AfD so that we don't launch headfirst into the voting (yes. VOTING) process and actually discuss our concerns first, with the help of an impartial admin-facilitator whose job is to carry out the ultimate decision. This sounds laborious but if PROD can handle most of the load we can spare the resources.
I'm willing to listen to any ideas about reforming AFD, but I tend to think that the whole idea of AFD is like putting a round peg in a square hole, and that it is probably a better idea to just scrap the whole thing rather than waste time fixing something that is fundamentally broken.
Ryan