Jimbo wrote:

I agree. But if the topic is _itself_ valid, then the right thing to do with a bad article is to fix it, not delete it or redirect it. It's usually pretty easy to go to an article, and move the bad parts to the talk page along with a courteous request for more documentation, or rewriting of some biased terminology or whatever.

As I said before; if the article contains only chaff and no wheat then an edit link is more informative (the validity of the topic is a side issue). Sometimes this cannot be determined by just one person or other times the amount of wheat in the heap of chaff just isn't worth the effort to salvage - thus the VfD process is invoked. But of course if that process results in somebody fixing the article (which it often does), then great.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)