From: Dan Grey dangrey@gmail.com
Revert wars wouldn't get very far due to the 3RR - it would force people to come to a *consensus* over whether or not to include an article, rather than just voting.
With 3 people on each side of a delete vote, I could see them getting quite far.
In the end, we are going to force discussions over the matter. It is conventional WP philosophy that edit wars are not good. They attract trolls and POV-pushers and, in the end, force a tyranny of the majority, as the 3RR will always win. However, the discussions would essentially be AfD discussions about controversial articles.
No, AfD doesn't have "discussions", it has simple majority votes. PWDS would force *discussion* over voting, as the power to delete/undelete would belong to everyone, therefore everyone would have to agree on a course of action :-).
AfD has plenty of discussions, and quite often people changing their votes as a result of the discussions, or as a result of changes to the article itself. However, "PWDS" would more likely simply result in endless revert wars - I see no reason to think that any discussion would be "forced", and Wikipedia consensus isn't about *everyone* agreeing, but rather most people agreeing. Creators of an article will almost never agree it is a good idea to delete it, regardless of the amount of discussion.
Jay.