Ray Saintonge wrote:
I would be happy with the simpler solution that any
AfD without
explanation could itself be speedied on sight.
I suspect an unexplained AfD nomination isn't a big deal by itself,
since practically every nomination gets a few votes and those votes will
probably be what decides it. I'm more concerned with the votes
themselves; a string of "delete, nn" or "keep, notable" can swing the
outcome of a vote but provides no actual basis for it ("me too" votes
provide a basis by proxy, but don't themselves add anything new to the
discussion). Deleting individual votes is likely to be pretty
contentious but maybe if there was an obvious policy against considering
them when closing the AfD there might be fewer such votes cast in the
first place.
I notice that
[[Wikipedia:Deletion_policy#Commenting_on_a_listing_for_deletion]]
already sort of implies this, but perhaps it needs to be made more explicit.