--- Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
Let's develop a similar procedure here. If
someone
sees a deletion
nomination where deletion could obviously be avoided
if a merge or
redirect were to be negotiated, then that person
should remove the AfD
tag and start a discussion on the talk page about
that alternative
action. The discussion should not proceed to
deletion until those
proposing deletion have diligently investigated all
alternatives. *NO
ONUS SHOULD BE PLACED ON THOSE OPPOSING DELETION*.
It should be for
those proposing that the article, category, article
template or other
encyclopedia component, should be deleted, to show
by due diligence
that the item cannot be reorganised in a fruitful
manner.
Damn, that sounds too much like _work_.
That's probably part of the problem with AfD: People
don't want to expend the effort to do any sort of
research. That's also probably part of the reason any
suggested reforms get shot down in a ball of flames
(mixing my metaphors here, I believe); most of them
require more work than AfD.
-Hermione1980
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