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Worldtraveller wrote:
So how about scrapping afd/vfd and replacing with a system whereby an editor may tag an article with a 'candidate for deletion' tag and provide a rationale. Admins can patrol the resulting category, assess each case, delete as necessary. If someone disagrees with the deletion, they can either contact the admin who deleted to ask them to review their decision, or if they want wider community input there's vfu (which could be renamed afu?)
What you're proposing is more or less "pure admin deletion" -- the idea that admins should get to decide what articles are deleted, and fight it out amongst themselves. I think this moves the balance of power even further away from the general populace of editors in an unfair way. There is nothing that says a non-admin's opinion about what should be deleted is any less valid than that of an admin.
Beyond that, there is no practical advantage to this over pure wiki deletion, because in PWD, admins would still have control over what articles stay deleted because they would be the ones with the power to protect a deleted article. I envision that this would happen rather commonly, and would be the simple solution to the edit wars that the doom sayers are always prophecizing would occur under PWD. If an admin is certain that a bad article should stay deleted, he or she will delete and protect it. There is simply no drawback to this. All the problems that exist in PWD also exist under AFD. The only difference is that we lose the bureaucracy, we lose the drama, and we lose the sense of finality that AFD gives to deletion.
Ryan