Chris Howie wrote:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Kurt Maxwell Weber kmw@armory.com wrote:
You might also want to take a look at the recent [[Klondike Kalamity]] AfD and the DRV that I just posted...it's an excellent example of a horrible deletion by trigger-happy demolition men.
A cursory glance suggests that this deletion was in very poor judgment. I'm tempted to go rogue(/rouge) and just undelete it. If I didn't know I'd get thrown against the wall.
A while back I was going through some old AfDs looking for "merge and delete" GFDL violations, and when I found them I simply redirected and undeleted them without asking anyone or going through any sort of "process". Not one was ever challenged, that I know of, or likely even noticed. Now granted changing a redlink into a redirect is not something likely to draw attention, but I think for really egregious examples of poorly done AfDs a "bold-revert-discuss" approach could work just fine. If anyone complains it can then be taken to DRV or wherever else these things are supposed to be discussed.
Tensions and objections may be further eased if we focus our efforts on reviewing AfDs that are over a year old, or some other such arbitrary threshold. We're more likely to get fresh faces reviewing our actions that way and even those people who did participate in them will have had lots of time for any heat to fade.