I agree with David's contention that VFD in Very F'ing Destructive.
How about replacing it with a category tag convention? Simply place a [[category:delete]] tag on an article, and explain your reasoning on the article's talk page?
(We could make sub-categories like: * [[category:delete-hopeless-stub]] * [[category:delete-non-notable-person]], etc.
I'm tempted to just Be Bold and just go ahead and delete vfd. Just see if I don't!!
Impatiently,
Uncle Ed