On Jan 20, 2006, at 4:42 PM, Jake Nelson wrote:
1. No article may be listed on AFD unless a serious
attempt at
discussing cleanup, redirection, renaming, etc., has been made on the
article's talk page.
So I couldn't AFD [[Bob's Used Cars]], an article on a hypothetical
clearly non-notable organization that doesn't meet speedy deletion
criteria, unless I had a pointless conversation on how this article
which fails all Wikipedia guidelines could somehow magically be made to
fit those criteria?
Let's be honest here - the VAST MAJORITY OF ARTICLES which get AFDed
are deleted by clear consensus without controversy. We are talking
about a small minority of controversial deletion decisions. Out of the
150+ nominations each day, fewer than 5 make it to DRV. Some get
speedy-kept with no controversy, some get speedy deleted with no
controversy and the rest get some sort of consensus, or a no-consensus
keep.
-FCYTravis