Rick wrote:
Fine. I give up. I will no longer list anything to be deleted, and I will stop deleting any garbage that any vandals want to add to Wikipedia.
I don't think being huffy about it is very helpful. Better, I think, to work for a new system that doesn't make such egregious errors.
"Palestinian views of the peace process" is quite clearly an important topic -- one of the most important topics in one of the most important issues of our times. And yet, rather than find a way to work for a neutral presentation of that issue, VfD resulted in deletion. That's broken. The material there may have been flawed in some ways (though I find it to be pretty decent, as a first draft at least), but it was hardly "vandalism".
On the other hand, deleting "any garbage that any vandals want to add to wikipedia" is valuable.
Tying the two together is a mistake, I think. When I say that the current VfD process is broken, I am not thereby endorsing the notion that we can't justifiably delete vandalism or nonsense.
--Jimbo