On 7/5/06, Erik Moeller eloquence@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to push the notion of "keeping and relisting" pages on AfD as
- an appropriate means of closing controversial AfDs with a high level
of outside participation
- a good alternative "vote" to express on such AfDs (e.g. "'''Keep and
relist''' on AfD in 4 weeks").
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This would further shift control of the AfD process towards extremists who are heavily involved pushing their particular agenda and whom are often the source of the AfD hostility that keeps more moderate users away from the process.
It's a minority of deletions that are at all controversial, even after prod. These controversial AfDs are poisonous to the community and while they are few in relative number they can be large in impact. They divide us into factions and voting blocks and they encourage combat rather than cooperation. As such the real problem with controversial AfD's isn't the outcome of the AfD but the impact on our users.
As such, I think it is most important that we settle such AfDs as quickly and efficiently as possible regardless of the outcome. At times it would seem clearly better to consistently make the wrong decision then to prolong the arguments... as such I can't see supporting something thats just going to twist the knife in the wound.
If you were instead suggest something like "relist in one year", I'd answer that it doesn't take wikien-l discussion or policy changes to achieve that. ... For the past three months I've been making a list of every article kept due to what appears to me to be pop-culture mania. Once each entry is a year old I'll begin proding the ones that everyone has forgotten about.