[WikiEN-l] Seth Finkelstein in the Technology Guardian

Sat Sep 30 03:34:24 UTC 2006

On 29 Sep 2006 at 09:43, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:

> I was struck by Seth's account of how he "strongly argued the
> case against myself" at AFD.  I suspect that a biographical
> article's subject tends to carry significant but paradoxical
> undue weight at AFD, in two contradictory directions.  Subjects
> who argue that they are notable and that their articles should be
> kept are obviously vain self-promoters, so their articles should
> obviously be deleted.  But subjects who argue that their articles
> should be deleted are obviously trying to hide something (or, at
> least, to unjustly influence the free flow of information), so
> their articles should obviously be kept.

Yeah... reverse psychology would seem to be a productive way of 
getting what you want from an AFD, whether it be "keep" or "delete", 
if you have the smarts to argue strenuously for the *opposite* 
position to the one you really want, and do it as obnoxiously as 
possible.

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