User:Abu-Fool Danyal ibn Amir al-Makhiri/10 minute rule

Summary
Putting a "15-minuter" through a deletion debate after just 10 minutes is an exercise in masochism. Act summarily. Review after the full 15 minutes.

Rough draft

 * Any high-volume/drama process is inherently wasteful. Of course, genuinely new and contentious situations arise, so they are unavoidable and not necessarily unhealthy. But, when the same sort of situation generates the same pattern, then something is wrong with the process. In this case, the pattern is:
 * A high profile event occurs
 * An article on a person notable only for that event is immediately created
 * The article is immediately listed for deletion
 * Lots of kilobytes ensue, with little content and no general agreement (no consensus in the english sense of the word)
 * An administrator closes as no consensus, or applies WP:BLP1E anyway - either way most if not all of the "debate" could have been skipped. (The article might then be put up at WP:DRV, for an additional week of silliness.)


 * The trouble is, when an AfD banner goes on a temporarily high-profile article, lots of attention is drawn to AfD. There are loads and loads of comments from both outsiders and insiders, about not only the policy issues (which aren't that deep really), but also giving various opinions about the event and the person.
 * This does no service to the readers.
 * This does no service to the subject of the article.
 * This makes Wikipedia look silly.
 * The AfD is itself read by lots of people, so the above points are highlighted and magnified.


 * Therefore the AfD should not be allowed to accumulate WikiCruft for a full week. Generally, "merge"/"redirect" to an appropriate article in a prompt manner. There it should remain for a while (say, a month), unless something exceptional happens.