Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
I think this is a really bad idea. PRODs get put on articles that are very new, so few people have probably seen them or got them on their watchlist other than the author. It will just make many authors, who have their work deleted with no opportunity to debate it, to go ballistic. I have yet to have any of my creations PRODed, but if it happened I would want to argue why I created it.
Speedies get looked at by, maybe, three people - the author the the article, the tagger, and the deleting admin. Prod's get possibly hundreds of eyes looking at them during prod patrols.
Perhaps not allowing the authors to remove prods might be useful, and a {{disputedprod}} tag would be very helpful to add to that.
I would also suggest that articles that are put to AfD should not be speedy deleted. Once thay are there give people a chance to see them and comment. Maybe only cut short the closure if there are 20 delete "votes" and no keep "votes". I often see a speedy closure of a AfD debate and are curious about what was in it.
This I wholeheartedly agree with, and I may have proposed to a resounding silence at one point.
-Jeff