[WikiEN-l] Special rules for "controversial" AFDs

[Ron Ritzman]

On 4/8/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Israel_News_Agency
>
> Eventualy proved posible to delete through AFD despite claims to the contry.

The AFD in question...  http://tinyurl.com/yrzj2h

But in order to make it possible, you had to make a special rule about
having to have 150 edits to make a keep/delete comment, a rule that
doesn't apply to any other AFD though a similar "made up" rule was
used once used for GNAA.

If it is necessary to treat certain controversial sock prone AFDs this
way then a policy needs to be adopted covering it, who can invoke
"special rules", under what circumstances, and what qualifies an
account to "vote" when the rule is invoked. This is so it doesn't look
like the nominator is pulling rules out of his ass. If I am not
mistaken, users have been warned in the past about making up their own
policies.

As for how such a rule would be phrased, I don't like the use of "edit
counts". In the case of the INA AFD, my vote would have been ruled out
even though I am nobody's sock and have been around since 2005. A
better idea would be to disallow "votes" from accounts less then 15
days old which should cover the length of an AFD plus a relisting.
That is, if it must be done at all.