User:MB/sandbox4

When I review, I find, that with very little effort, some articles that are obvious CSDs, Draftify, or AFDs. Then there are others that I can tell would survive AFD are obviously notable (that is unless they are complete hoaxes, but I AGF that they are not if the creator has a history). However, a bigger number number than the sum all those are somewhere in the middle. They may seem like a notable topic, but not have sufficient sources, the sources may be behind paywalls or offline, or in other languages. These are the ones that would take a lot of time. I know others have expressed similar thoughts in other discussions. Since these are not obvious pass/not pass, a process that helped form a consensus would remove the burden for any one reviewer to have to make this call.

What if there was a new process for these "edge cases". A NPP reviewer would tag the article with something like Notability, that would encourage any editor to leave their assessment of notability on the TP. There would be separate tracking categories for these articles. The TP would, hopefully, resemble a informal AFD - but with no timeline or formal close. The tag could be removed at any time, but only by some "trusted" to assess notability - I'm thinking anyone with Admin/NPP/Autopatrol. As these articles are still subject to deletion by any existing process, that would be another way to in effect, remove the tag.

I'm sure there are some rough edges to work out, but this would get the ones in the "grey area" out of the queue and reduce the backlog by marking them "likely notable" but still provide a mechanism where they can't be forgotten after that without further review. MB 02:22, 5 January 2022 (UTC)