Snowspinner wrote:
Another argument in favor, to my mind, is that even for experts, citation takes time. Research is a non-trivial task. On an article, this is fine - it's not a race, and citations and information can be added whenever. Sooner is nice, eventually is acceptable.
Deletion debates, you have five days, assuming you notice it off the bat. When you get stretches like we're getting with webcomics, whereby huge strings of comics are nominated in a row, citation-based responses become impossible. But even in the case of an individual article on a topic, it is absurd to demand that subject experts get their work done in five days. Especially when we are so wedded to process that a closed AfD is growing more and more impossible to overturn.
Just knowing about the nomination is a problem for an editor with once-a-week computer access. With a five day cycle an article can be nominated and deleted befor he comes back the following week.
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