While I agree with much of David Gerard's reasoning, I am unconvinced that a one-month hiatus would provide any greater or more meaningful space for discussion of an alternative than would business-as-usual at AfD.
I do believe that it would lead to a rash of speedy deletions that lack sufficient policy basis.
I continue to believe that any discussion of process issues at AfD will go nowhere until there is greater agreement on what articles we want to keep and what articles we want to delete. The process discussions are all polarized by the winners and losers they would create in the inclusionism vs. deletionism spectrum.
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