User:Robert McClenon/Drafts for Discussion

Drafts for Discussion
This may be an idea that has been discussed and dismissed previously, but it may be an attempt to provide detail for an idea that has been dismissed due to lack of detail in the past. From time to time, someone has proposed one of three ideas about Miscellany for Deletion. The first is that it should be renamed Miscellany for Discussion. The second and third are that drafts should be split out from other miscellany and have their own XFD, which might be either Drafts for Deletion, the second idea, or Drafts for Discussion, the third idea. The first idea, changing Miscellany for Deletion to Miscellany for Discussion, has been dismissed because it has not been obvious what needs to be considered other than deletion and the usual [[WP:ATD|alternatives to deletion] that are implied in any deletion discussion. The second, splitting out Drafts for Deletion, has been dismissed because it has not been obvious why drafts need to be considered separately from other miscellany (user pages, WP pages, portals).

However, I have a suggestion that we set up Drafts for Discussion. I am proposing this in response to the reasonable comment that we need some way of discussing whether drafts will survive AFD. So my proposal is in particular that there should be Drafts for Discussion, but that it deal with two almost opposite questions, should a draft be deleted, and should a draft be promoted. Normally the reviewer will either be nominating the draft for deletion, or asking whether the draft should be promoted, and will know which. I can imagine the situation where a draft has been kicking around so long that a reviewer thinks it should be either promoted or deleted, but I am not sure that will happen in the real world. Anyway, the idea is that if a draft is nominated for promotion, there would be rough consensus after seven days either to promote the draft or to keep the draft. If the draft is promoted, then there is rough consensus against deleting, merging, redirecting, or re-draftifying the article.