User:Cullen328/Sandbox/Before

In my opinion, WP:BEFORE is more than just a "suggestion" because it is a tool for implementing an important policy. Deletion policy is most certainly policy, and it says "Reasons for deletion include . . . Articles for which thorough attempts to find reliable sources to verify them have failed". It goes on to say, "If the page can be improved, this should be solved through regular editing, rather than deletion". If an AfD nominator describes in a few words, their attempts to find reliable sources and the result of that search, that starts the debate off on the right foot, in my opinion.