[WikiEN-l] Undeletion policy

[Alphax]

Tony Sidaway wrote:
> On 9/17/05, Alphax <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Bryan Derksen wrote:
>>
>>As for "abstain" votes on nomination for AfD, it's because there's
>>really no better place for people to say "I think there's something
>>wrong with this article, what should be done?" Just putting {{cleanup}}
>>or {{wikify}} on something won't fix it in a hurry. Putting {{afd}} on
>>it /will/.
>>
>>
> 
> I'm in two minds about this. Should we allow the casual use of AfD as a 
> cleanup resource? I think I'd be inclined to regard such use of AfD as 
> borderline bad faith. If someone really thinks an article needs to be 
> cleaned up, *and quickly*, he should just do a quick edit to remove whatever 
> it is that makes him uncomfortable about the article from the current 
> version. This should take a minute or so.
> 

What about when they say to themselves "I'm not really sure if this is
suitable but it's not complete nonsense and I'd like a second opinion" -
is that an acceptable use of AfD?

Or should we rename AfD to make this an acceptable use?

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