Travis Mason-Bushman wrote:
Why are you thinking this is either-or? There are some articles which should be cleaned up. There are some articles which should be deleted. AFD *and* Cleanup have their purposes.
(writing eight paragraphs of a response, then deleting the whole thing)
A lot of articles listed on AFD belong on Cleanup. A lot of time is spent watching AFD to try and keep things from being deleted that shouldn't be deleted. That time can't be easily redirected unless things stop being listed on AFD that shouldn't be.
Maybe 'Article improvement month' - nobody delete articles for a month, while everyone focuses on creating and improving articles instead of getting rid of them. (Exceptions for "urgent deletions" as described prior, of course.)
-- Jake Nelson, who shouldn't be up this late when he has to be at a big meeting all day tomorrow...