On 10/8/05, Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
I wonder if we could agree to change policy to permit an administrator to "speedy redirect" a merge candidate and close an AfD where notability is
the
sole or principal reason given for deletion, or no reason is given.
I endorse that, although I don't see why the authority to merge-and-redirect should be limited to administrators.
I agree. I don't know why I thought it should be limited to administrators. A non-administrator can close a clear non-delete debate (indeed I believe some adventurous non-administrators may have closed delete debates by putting a delete-because tag on the article).
I can see that a speedy redirect of this kind could encounter severe resistance where there is already an emerging consensus to delete. I wouldn't like to be there when something like that happened; it could be very unpleasant. There is a strand of thinking that regards any alternative to deletion in such case as illegitimately thwarting the decision-making process--perhaps this stems from a belief that the purpose of AfD is to delete rather than to debate deletion.