On 9/15/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
It's not AFD that's failing. Any deletion system can be faulted by ignorance on the part of nominators and deleters. We need to have stricter rules about how people should behave when voting in deleting discussions, to lessen the hostile atmosphere when controversial articles come up.
We need to address people's attitudes. Those are actually the cause of problems with deletion.
I just remembered something that I used to wonder about when I first arrived on Wikipedia. I think they're still valid questions:
Why isn't "Votes (now Articles) for Deletion" a subpage of "Request for Comments"? Why isn't "Articles for Deletion" instead "Request for Comments - Proposed Deletion"?
Putting the deletion mechanism in an area where discussion and comments are already the focus may help a bit.