charles matthews wrote:
It has never been pretty; but the current complaints on the deletion mechanism seem to be about Gresham's Law. Roughly speaking, the 'clueless newbie' approach is orthogonal to the 'right stuff' for the job, which is to know what help constructs WP, and what is fluff or actually detrimental.
What to do? If GL is the basis reason - the people with informed judgement being also those who can easily find better things to do on the site, then it needs configuring. Subdivide by type of reason for deletion? By area of topic? A smaller 'room' can be a friendlier atmosphere.
It seems to me that a basic point that borderline cases are _not_ the most significant; a marginal keep is one that is not great for WP.
I'd actually like to see AfD split by topic area, as recently happened with the Reference Desk (and happened with the Village Pump long ago).