From: Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa(a)gmail.com>
There is a serious problem with undeletion policy, rendering it
incompatible
with other Wikipedia policies.
Firstly undeletion requires a majority (50%). Wikipedia is not a democracy,
we should do changes by consensus.
I'm not sure why people continue to try to make this false distinction. On
Wikipedia, "consensus" means a majority of editors agreeing with one option,
ranging from 66% to 80%, depending on the issue.
Secondly the undeletion policy is inconsistent with
deletion policy. The
main principle of deletion policy is "if in doubt, don't delete". It
follows
that a consensus should be required to keep a page deleted.
The second premise doesn't follow from the first. The fact that someone
might want to have an article undeleted does not necessarily mean there is
any doubt it should have been deleted. As well, when something is deleted
that means there was a consensus it should have been deleted; VfU is not
intended to be "AfD round two"; if it's just another AfD, then it should be
consolidated into AfD and deleted.
Jay.