2008/9/16 Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@hotmail.co.uk:
I don't understand this...how can a non-admin close an AfD except as a keep, lacking a delete button? Or have they fiddled around the speedy deletion process to accommodate this?
A few years ago, what would happen was they'd close it, tag the article as a speedy-deletion candidate, and mark it as "per the deletion discussion [here]", or something similar. This was sort of frowned on, but simply because it meant an extra step - the deleting admin had to check the discussion was indeed a fair close.
I assume this then became unpopular.
Mind you, I'm not entirely sure how to close a deletion debate *properly* - I've been an admin three years and never closed one. :-)