That is incredibly similar to what I just wrote on [[Wikipedia talk:Votes for deletion]]. Repeated here for those who prefer to discuss these things on the list:
There are two choices - change the page or change the policy.
1) Change the page - daily subpages, or split some other way, like by what the problem is (we already have copyvio and foreign split off, why not other topics?)
2) Change the policy
*Reduce the waiting time (there is vast support for this idea)
*Delete things after three days where no-one has objected.
*Stop anyone with less than (for example) 200 edits from commenting. This might get around the issue of a huge number of supposed users voting whose only contribution ever is to the VfD page, and once the page is deleted or kept, that user is never heard of again. I strongly believe ballot stuffign is becoming a real problem here. Without it, there would be way less discussion and a much smaller page.
*Stop attacking people who try to help on the page. I don't deny that I have made controversial deletions, but I am attacked for absolutely non-controversial ones
*Give up on the idea of attaining consensus and set an actual percentage of votes required to delete (75% sounds good). This makes everything more clear-cut and more people will be willing to take action if backed up by a policy that isn't interpreted differently by everyone reading it.
Angela
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