Yes, I've been paying attention, thanks. I've personally gone to a number of message boards to discuss AfDs with groups who are offended by an AfD discussion. Usually patient discussion and explanation works wonders. Perhaps a "So you've been nominated for deletion" page would be helpful in this manner as well.
Is it a problem? Yes, but I think your proposed solution would be an infinitely larger problem.
On 1/20/06, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.org wrote:
I'm afraid your casual dismissal of the issue will not make it go away.
Since you haven't been paying attention, I'll recapitulate: Jimbo receives e-mail messages /at least daily/ from outsiders wondering why "we" [the AfD gang] are so nasty and insulting as we delete easily-verified information about highly notable people. The AfD gang is actively doing damage to Wikipedia's reputation on a on-going, daily basis.
Will these assumptions of bad faith and personal attacks make the sky fall? No, the servers won't even crash. Is this continuing harm to the encyclopedia a real issue that must be fixed promptly because the rate is accelerating? Yes.