User:Doncram/AFDs

My contributions in AFD area:

1. My AFD percentages are great (arguably). I have focused on finding AFDs where an article might be saveable and making effort to save it: I mostly vote "Keep". This is not because I believe most articles at AFD should be kept; I am not an extreme inclusionist. I just think I provide more value by chiming in on topics where I know something or am interested enough to do research. I am attracted to and take on hard cases. Nonetheless I have an 84.8% success rate in my "Keep" and "SK" votes, as calculated below. And I have a 90% rate in my other votes.

2. I contribute in improving documentation and processes when I see that I can. In AFDs area:
 * I refined the salient navigation template:Recent AfDs significantly, adding categories list to it]]. This provides easy navigation between all recent days' AFDs and all topic area AFDs. (This form was adopted into the creation of newish template:AfDs too.)
 * To ease linking and improve accessibility of AFDSTATS, I set up soft redirect wp:afdstats (and also all 5 other members of Category:Pointers to WMF tools).
 * I have more ideas for improvements to make AFDs "nicer".

3. My AFD participation has been constructive. There are numerous AFDs where my role seemed really helpful in reaching a good decision. My effort was usually around saving the work proposed for deletion. (Each AFD is ideally a cooperative discussion so others also deserve credit for any good outcomes obtained, of course.) See tabulation of selected AFDs in "Constructive Successes" section below.
 * Selected AFDs are from AfdStats on my last 500 up to April 6, which covers two years (from April 6, 2016 going back to April 5, 2014). (All of my previous ones, going back to January 15, 2008, are here (within set of less than 500, with overlap of 4).
 * Selected ones include two contentious cases: Kirby Delauter and corners of the Isle of Man TT race course.
 * Feel free to sample on your own from my last 500 up to April 6

Constructive AFD participations
Selected AFDs that ended in Keep outcome, where my role seemed constructive. The last two below are AFD's which brought me into long-running hopeless drama/contention areas... which got settled!

Key K0 = Keep vote just after nom, perhaps with comments but no vote preceding (perhaps most valuable/efficient) K1 = Keep vote, despite nom and one delete vote preceding                  (Harder to achieve "Keep" outcome) K2 = Keep vote, despite nom and two deletes                                (Harder still) K = Keep vote after one or more Keep votes

AFD rate calculations
As of April 7, 2016 6pm my stats on Keep votes within last 500 votes by me (of which 10 not yet closed) are:

Results Votes	K	D	SK	SD	M	R	T	U	NC K	200	49	19	2	12	18	0	0	59 D	3	14	0	0	0	2	0	0	3 SK	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0 SD	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 M	2	3	0	0	13	0	0	0	2 R	3	5	0	0	0	24	0	0	3 T	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 U	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 Abbreviation key: K = Keep D = Delete SK = Speedy Keep SD = Speedy Delete M = Merge R = Redirect T = Transwiki U = Userfy NC = No Consensus

Where I voted K or SK, performance is arguably 84.8%:
 * No consensus results in article being Kept.
 * K and SK and NC outcomes for my K and SK votes = 200 + 19 + 59 + 3 + 3 + 0 = 284
 * Number of D and SD outcomes = 51
 * Leaving out 30 Merge and Redirect results which would require review to see if they represent "success" or "failure". (An example of an arguable "success" was Articles for deletion/B2177 road (2nd nomination), in which I voted Keep but suggested Redirect option that carried.)
 * 284 / (284 + 51) = 284/335 = 84.8 percent "success" rate when voting K or SK.

In my votes other than Keep and SK, performance is arguably 90%. Derived by:
 * 54 correct as on-diagonal (i.e. outcome exactly same as my vote) out of 72 [= 54 + 15 non-diagonal non-NC outcomes + (3 NC outcomes when I voted Delete) => 54/72 = 75.0%.
 * And when my vote was D, I was wrong on 6 (= 3 K outcomes + 3 NC outcomes) out of 72 =6/72 =8.3%, unclear on remainder (am not analyzing 15 off-diagonal R, M votes), so arguably my success rate is 75%/(75%+8.3%) = 90.0%.