On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, geni wrote:
The AfD for Rock climbing is just the most outrageous of recent nominations that contributes to the impression that AfD is broken
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rock_climbing
AFD appeared to work fine the article was kept.
See also [[Talk:Video_game_crash_of_1983]], though that never got to the point of having an AFD.
Making people run around as fast as possible to stay in the same place is not "working fine" just because the article was kept.
It highlights a real problem with the policies. If you let anyone delete uncited material, and you even consider original research as a reason to delete an article, you leave the way open for vandals to intentionally challenge random claims and random articles just to cause trouble.
What we *should* do is require that you must sincerely consider uncited material questionable before deleting it (or using it to nominate an article for deletion). (Of course, this won't prevent the vandal from lying and trying to delete the article anyway, but then, that's true of any policy.)