This would be a kangaroo court waiting to happen.
We should of course do more to encourage research before someone submits something for deletion. However, people have different research skills, different access to resources for doing so, and differing opinions on where to set the bar for inclusion. So this "review board" would either confine itself to the worst offenses (like the guy who put up [[Jean-Luc Picard]] for deletion), which can be covered by normal admins and WP:POINT anyway, or have a chilling effect on WP by essentially criminalizing differences of opinion.
Submitting an article to AfD really should be no big deal. Things that shouldn't be deleted get nominated, but that doesn't mean the sky is falling. Just vote keep and get on with editing.
On 1/20/06, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.org wrote:
I propose <sigh> yet another level of bureaucracy -- a Deletion Review Board (which would have nothing whatsoever to do with the useless WP:VfU). The Review Board would be empowered to penalize those who nominate and those who vote support such egregiously careless and /damaging/ deletions. Deletions of unpublished garage bands can continue just as they do today.
The penalties would be limited, perhaps to simply to "time-outs" of various lengths -- prohibitions from participating in any *fD process -- and would primarily serve as a way of getting the attention of the offenders that /they are damaging the encyclopedia/ with their thoughtless assumptions of bad faith and personal attacks. Any offenses too great for that level of penalty would be dealt with by the ArbComm.