--- Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
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Let's develop a similar procedure here. If someone sees a deletion nomination where deletion could obviously be avoided if a merge or redirect were to be negotiated, then that person should remove the AfD tag and start a discussion on the talk page about that alternative action. The discussion should not proceed to deletion until those proposing deletion have diligently investigated all alternatives. *NO ONUS SHOULD BE PLACED ON THOSE OPPOSING DELETION*. It should be for those proposing that the article, category, article template or other encyclopedia component, should be deleted, to show by due diligence that the item cannot be reorganised in a fruitful manner.
Damn, that sounds too much like _work_.
That's probably part of the problem with AfD: People don't want to expend the effort to do any sort of research. That's also probably part of the reason any suggested reforms get shot down in a ball of flames (mixing my metaphors here, I believe); most of them require more work than AfD.
-Hermione1980
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