From: Erik Moeller
Cunc-
All right, Votes for Deletion is broken. There's something
seriously,
deliriously wrong when [[Gene Ray]] is listed on Votes for Deletion.
Pages can only be deleted in consensus, so I doubt there's a real risk that articles like [[Gene Ray]] or [[Realdoll]] will be deleted. I'm not completely opposed to delisting a page, but it's a matter of
good
judgment. If one or several regulars have voted for deletion, or if a newbie has done so and given a long explanation why he feels that way,
you
should honor these opinions and let the process do its magic.
On the other hand, if it's just some newbies who haven't read our
policies
feeling offended by a certain article and voting to delete, you might unlist the page right away, but it would be nice to leave a message on their talk page and explain why you did it.
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.
This will apply to two situations, primarily: the first being the one you mentioned ("some newbies who haven't read our policies feeling offended by a certain article and voting to delete") and the other being when an article has changed due to its listing on Votes for Deletion. Once something has gone from possibly irredeemable gunk to an evidently valid entry it should be delisted from Votes for Deletion.