Every now and then I check the pending delete votespending delete votes (note: requires quite a lot of reputation to view), to see if there are any posts on there that require deletion (ditto undeletion, but deletion is more common). Then I check to see if I agree, and cast my delete vote if I do. Recently, though, I nearly always end up getting told "You have already voted to delete this post"; not only are the votes-to-delete staying unresolved for a long time, but so long that I've forgotten I cast my own!
Now, the reasoning here concludes that ideally, if it worked, we would be using a third method (indeed, the intended one): three users with enough reputation to cast delete votes do so. The problem is, you need multiple votes on the same post to delete it, and without users actually checking posts with pending delete votes, the posts are unlikely to gather the votes in question. There isn't a review queue for delete votes, like there is for close votes. As it is, though, our current policy basically concedes that this method doesn't work (and indeed, it doesn't work in practice). However, the problem seems relatively fixable; we merely need to inform high-reputation users of the existence of delete votes. As linked earlier (but I'll repeat the link to make it easier to find), there's a pagea page that does this (plus another one for delete votes here on Meta); it's just that nobody but me seems to be checking it. Is there a way in which we can encourage users to check this page more often (like they seem to check the review queue)?
