User:Andrew Davidson/Precedents and policy
AFC and NPP
[edit]AFD page moves
[edit]It used to be the case that one shouldn't move articles whilst they were being discussed. I should know. I was the one who wrote that into the Wikipedia:Guide to deletion in the first place. This was for purely technical reasons: it broke the notice on the article. And the Guide to deletion even said, in its very first revision, that the problem was avoidable if one was careful and renamed the AFD discussion page to match.
Around 2006, a means was found to avoid this problem. I was there at Template talk:Afd/Archive 4#Let's get rid of subst as one of several encouraging its adoption into the mainstream notices, and it was adopted to make the mechanism that you see now. The prohibition on renaming articles whilst they were being discussed at AFD went away.
Jimbo Q&A
[edit]Notability
[edit]Rebuttals
[edit]The necessity of rebutting impertinent and invalid arguments at AfD may be observed in the following cases: