Phil Sandifer wrote:
[[WP:DRV]]. Allegedly set up to hear procedural cases, it has become a court of appeal whereby procedure is considered sporadically, and more often, where decisions that are unpopular among the main clique that watches DRV get overturned with no further chance of appeal. It has become one of the worst examples of a de facto committee on en, and is far past the point where any of its decisions should be considered binding.
I think the thing that continues to bother me about DRV is that, as much as we harp about not being a democracy and not voting, it's the msot blatant vote counting mechanism out there. Someone can point out five problems with a deletion, and as long as the people in favor of deletion can dredge up one more person than you, it stays. Patently absurd.
[[WP:FA]] and to a lesser extent [[WP:GA]], which, like RFA, suffer from such a wildly disparate set of standards that the process of passing them is more a process of politics than of actual quality.
I haven't found that so far, but I'm relatively new to the world of FA. I'm also highly critical, so maybe I'm part of the problem as opposed to the solution.
-Jeff