Wikipedia:Improving AFD debates/Stats

This page contains a compilation of statistics regarding AfD's that took place in the 1-year period between November 1, 2010 and November 1, 2011. These statistics were compiled by an automated process, and may not be 100% accurate. Additionally, these stats don't include any AfD's from August 13, 2011 because the log page for that day has been deleted for some reason (well, it was deleted at the time the stats were compiled, but has been since restored). There were a further 36 AfD's which were excluded because the AfD discussion pages themselves had been deleted or could not be found for other reasons.

Total number of AfD's for this time period (after exclusions noted above): 24,281

AfD voting stats

A total of 92,430 votes were cast at these AfD's. Duplicate votes by the same user at a single AfD are counted as 1 vote. Comments, notes, or other votes that couldn't be parsed are not included in the total.
The average number of votes per AfD is 3.81, the median number of votes per AfD is 3.
The maximum number of votes at a single AfD is 111.
1,074 AfD's (4.42%) had no votes at all.
10,757 unique editors (including IP's) voted at AfD during this time period. Each unique editor contributed an average of 8.59 votes. Below is a table of the top 50 editors by total votes cast.

Table of top 50 voters

User	Votes
User:Whpq	1488
User:Stuartyeates	1108
User:Carrite	986
User:DGG	917
User:GiantSnowman	914
User:Cullen328	822
User:MelanieN	802
User:Bearian	734
User:Dream Focus	720
User:Ihcoyc	709
User:MichaelQSchmidt	654
User:SwisterTwister	642
User:LibStar	629
User:Colonel Warden	567
User:Argyle 4 Life	543
User:Metropolitan90	533
User:Xxanthippe	526
User:BabbaQ	476
User:The Bushranger	473
User:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz	443
User:Qrsdogg	423
User:Edison	413
User:Sir Sputnik	410
User:Starblind	405
User:Ravenswing	391
User:Milowent	385
User:Hrafn	374
User:David Eppstein	340
User:Roscelese	331
User:Mandsford	328
User:Jclemens	328
User:Arxiloxos	326
User:Nipsonanomhmata	311
User:P199	306
User:Northamerica1000	296
User:Snottywong	294
User:Ultraexactzz	287
User:Jfgslo	286
User:Dennis Brown	283
User:Qworty	283
User:Kudpung	275
User:Peridon	273
User:Chris Neville-Smith	270
User:Joaquin008	263
User:Crisco 1492	263
User:TenPoundHammer	254
User:Phil Bridger	253
User:Tarc	252
User:Michig	251
User:Edward321	238

AfD closing stats

651 unique editors closed AfD's during this time period. This includes non-admin closures.
264 of these editors closed only a single AfD during this time. 414 of these editors closed less than 5 AfD's.
Each AfD closer closed an average of 37.3 AfD's, the median number of AfD closings per editor was 2.
Approximately 50% of all AfD's were closed by the top 7 closers. The top 50 closers closed 84.4% of all AfD's.
Below is a table of how the AfD's during this time period closed:

AfD Result	Occurrences
Delete	13415 (55.2%)
Keep	4582 (18.9%)
No Consensus	1643 (6.8%)
Redirect	1353 (5.6%)
Speedy Delete	1222 (5.0%)
Merge	813 (3.3%)
Speedy Keep	731 (3.0%)
Other*	461 (1.9%)
Userfy	59 (0.2%)
Transwiki	2 (0.01%)

*Other contains AfD's whose result was non-standard or otherwise not parseable.

Below is a table of the top 50 AfD closers:

Table of top 50 closers

User	Closes
User:Cirt	2979
User:Ron Ritzman	2904
User:Courcelles	2382
User:Postdlf	1077
User:Spartaz	937
User:King of Hearts	923
User:TParis	886
User:The Bushranger	739
User:Sandstein	685
User:Wizardman	647
User:Joe Decker	435
User:Beeblebrox	403
User:Black Kite	392
User:Davewild	392
User:Tone	349
User:BigDom	252
User:JohnCD	233
User:Phantomsteve	219
User:Stifle	196
User:causa sui	190
User:Logan	178
User:Timotheus Canens	176
User:Mkativerata	162
User:DGG	160
User:Wifione	158
User:Alpha Quadrant	153
User:Rlendog	152
User:MuZemike	142
User:Mandsford	121
User:Kuyabribri	108
User:J04n	107
User:Salvio giuliano	106
User:TenPoundHammer	105
User:Ctjf83	100
User:Ironholds	99
User:GorillaWarfare	92
User:Roscelese	87
User:OwenX	83
User:NawlinWiki	82
User:Lear's Fool	79
User:Jayjg	79
User:Steven Zhang	72
User:Xymmax	70
User:Fetchcomms	66
User:Master of Puppets	63
User:LFaraone	62
User:Coffee	60
User:Fox	59
User:Lifebaka	55
User:NuclearWarfare	55

Relisting stats

A total of 7,743 AfD's (31.9%) were relisted at least once. The maximum number of times an AfD was relisted is 4. The table below shows the frequency of multiple relistings.

Times relisted	# of articles
0	16,538 (68.1%)
1	5,462 (22.5%)
2	2,174 (9.0%)
3	105 (0.4%)
4	2 (0.008%)