I just saw that the JavaScript wizards at Wikimedia Commons came up with an impressive new tool - if you look at an image description page, you will now see "Nominate for deletion" link in the bottom right corner. If you follow that link and give a deletion reason, everything - the tagging of the image, the listing on the Deletion requests page, and the notification of the uploader - is done automatically using JavaScript.
This is quite impressive. I'd love to see more of this kind of automation enabled by default, at least for users in the "autoconfirmed" group. Think about it:
* Deletion, peer review, featured article status nominations * Speedy deletion with auto-notification to the affected users * updating news pages & portals with important announcements ...
I'm sure there are countless scenarios where this might come in handy. I can see the dangers, but I think the benefits justify some more experiments. Any takers & other examples of similar semi-automated tools?