http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:Now...
is to a deletion debate on a page for bounties (cash etc) for bits of work on the project. I believe such a page would be a good thing. Arguments in > favour follow:
Yeck, why do people use AfD in this way? Debate the point, refute it, gain consensus and drive it into the ground, by all means. But don't simply call the mayor and get it bulldozed on a technicality...
I think people use deletion (Misc-fD, in fact) this way to force a decisive debate. I agree in general that it's not good, but an opponent might equally argue that the act of creating the page was bulldozing ahead without consensus (it's been debated before to a limited extent on the "foundation bounty board" page without consensus).
-- Matt