-----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of The Cunctator

The current situation is such that if I unlisted a page right away for

any reason, Wikipedians such as Fuzheado and Angela would strenuously object and

consider my action an egregious breach of protocol.

I strongly believe that just in the same way we formally state that we

trust people to immediately delete utter nonsense, we need to formally state that

we trust people to immediately take acceptable content off of the Votes

for Deletion page.

Just to give a flavour of current practice he is a short exchange I had on Talk:VfD this week

As per current policy it's ok to remove pages from VfD before 7 days if they're obviously fixed isn't it? Pete 00:20, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC) :Yes. For some value of "obvious". Martin 00:21, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC) ::As long as you can justify it when someone objects and asks you to explain. Probably if someone objects, they should just relist it though. Angela 00:33, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I have removed plenty of fixed or non-broken articles from VfD over the months, and never been pulled up on it. If you are getting pulled up on it, its because the articles _are_ contentious and need to be debated. Perhaps you are being too bold?

Pete/Pcb21