@Dbrant : Could work on EN if we hardcode feeding in AfD for talk pages, there are MANY questions around support for other languages. WE will revisit this when we work on patrolling tasks next quarter

The time has come.

See if a API Exists for AfD and AfC

The API for processing AfD pages is the same as for regular Talk pages. Having an API is not the problem.

The problem is detecting whether a page is an AfD page.
The reason we show Talk pages in our native presentation is because Talk pages are in the Talk: namespace. If we detect that a page is in the Talk: namespace, we show it in the native interface. But AfD pages are in the Wikipedia: namespace, which is a namespace that also contains a million other types of pages that are not AfDs.

We can hard-code the English case of "/Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion/", so that we know that anything under that path can be considered a “talk” page, but hard-coding the same thing for all other languages is the difficult part. Do all other language wikis follow the same convention for AfDs? Do we have a list of path prefixes (like the English case) for other languages?

Another consideration:

• At least on enwiki, when replying or casting a vote in an AfD, the convention is to write your vote in bold, followed by your reasoning, e.g. "Delete, article does not meet notability requirements". However, our current native Talk interface only supports plain text. The user can technically type wikitext into it, but ideally we should expand the interface with syntax buttons, much like we have in the general article editor, and also offer a "preview" of the reply, so that the user can be sure that their message will be formatted as they expect.