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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Deletion_policy&diff=1674735&oldid=1674734

Note also the franchise requirements at the time, and the high
thresholds for deletion (at various times either 3/4 or 2/3 majority
required for deletion).

Beginning April 2004, the problem of VFD growing ever larger (the main
reason for going down to 5 days) was partially solved by having each
discussion on its own subpage (the current day-log system came in on
Christmas 2004).

So there you go, a little policy history lesson :)

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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com