User:DustFormsWords/Mass AfD Nominations

This is an essay on why you should not nominate multiple articles in a single AfD.

Mass nominations are evil
Nominating several articles for deletion in a single discussion is a bad idea because:
 * It increases the workload on commenting editors and may dissuade them from commenting.
 * Editors can miss the fact there are multiple nominations and make a generic comment when they only meant to comment on the lead nomination.
 * It can be hard to separate out votes for each individual article.
 * It encourages editors to assess the articles as a group rather than each on their own individual merits. Consensus is that each deletion should be assessed on its own merits.
 * By encouraging a wide scope of argument it encourages editors to lose focus on the issues specific to each argument and promotes needless dispute