Keith Old wrote:
Anyone is encouraged to vote in Articles for Deletion. I am one of the regulars on the Articles for Deletion. One of the issues that has been ignored in this debate is that many articles have been improved beyond recognition as a result of the Articles for Deletion process. For many users, there a number of articles in which they have an intereste nominated on one day and none the day after.
We should be encouraging users to participate in the process not discouraging them with artificial limits. It seems that many people who don't participate in the process are the most vocal about its supposed deficiencies. It's a bit like complaining about the quality of the politicians that are running the country while you don't vote.
Keith
aka User: Capitalistroadster
Now there's a familiar face! I agree, there have been many articles which (at the time they were nominated) could probably have been speedied, but instead, they went to V/AFD and were improved to the point of valid stubs (or beyond). Not everyone who votes "delete" does so on every AFD page; not everyone who votes "keep" does so on every AFD page.
I think the biggest problem with AFD is the "Us and Them" mentality of the AIW and the ADW, playing a zero-sum game.
PROPOSAL: Delete these pages from meta straight away, notify all former members, and ban anyone who mentions them ever again...