Philip Welch 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.
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.
In other words, ala Discussions for Adminship (DFA)? Hell, yeah. Right now I often end up relisting debates because an article was substantially rewritten and so the bulk of the "votes" to delete/keep lack proper rationales.
John Lee