"Nick Boalch" n.g.boalch@durham.ac.uk wrote in message news:43DA3680.3030904@durham.ac.uk...
Haukur Þorgeirsson wrote:
Just make [[WP:SNOW]] a speedy deletion criterion: "If you think an article doesn't have any chance of surviving AfD then just go ahead and delete it."
I appreciate that your comment was intended humorously, but nevertheless: half of the point of AFD, to my mind, is that it may bring an article to the attention of someone who can improve it to the point where it doesn't need deleting.
So you're saying that nominating an article for AFD is a cunning way to jump the clean-up queue?
That's a Baldrick-worthy plan, and I don't even mean clever Baldrick from Series One.
As I have said before, if the AFD regulars put half the effort into cleanup that they do into AFD, there would be many more high-quality articles on Wikipedia.
HTH HAND