David Gerard wrote:
uninvited@nerstrand.net (uninvited@nerstrand.net) [050913 08:17]:
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.
You're right. Make it three.
(We won't run out of disk space.)
I think this would be an interesting experiment. Instead of deletionist and inclusionist camps throwing around anecdotes, you get a sizeable body of candidates to study, plus it encourages people to think about the process that they want to follow when the period ends and they have a whole pile of articles they want to process efficiently. We'll discover, how often borderline articles gets improved into good ones when left alone, or get made into redirs to existing articles. Some articles might be unfairly speedied, but if they're being tracked from a protected list, I think admins will leave the marginals to accumulate rather than risk being sanctioned for deleting worthwhile material out of hand.
Stan