Surely it is easier to change an article into a one-line stub than it is to put it through the non-speedy deletion processes.
Let's do a case study. Here's an article which looks to me like useless semi-coherent original research which we'd be better off without:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changes_in_immigrant_groups_extended_family_pos...
Yet the topic - which the article does a very poor job of defining - is probably worthwhile. How would you recommend we proceed? Can you quickly salvage a coherent useful stub out of this?
Regards, Haukur