Phroziac wrote:
Then it simply becomes a vote, and not a straw poll to build consensus. For example, when closing an afd, if someone says it's a copyvio of www.google.com, it'll be deleted no matter how many keep votes there are. And [[George W. Bush]] always gets speedy kept. And [[Wikipedia:Votes for Deletion]] too. The big thing i hate about vfd is the ban on merging or moving an article for a week. You don't need consensus other then what any other regular editorial function would need to merge something. And non-admins can't speedy keep, can they?
Yes, they just punch the right buttons. The only thing a non-admin can't do in closing a VFD is to delete the page. (What that can do is mark it with {{db|per AFD [[|link]]}}). I should know; I've closed quite a few in the backlog, and I'm not an admin.