Interesting comparison with historical antecedants!
This is more the
sort of level of debate I'd like to see at AfD. I wonder what a
closing admin would make of it... :-)
You shouldn't *need* to go through this
level of debate just to keep a page
around when the notability rules could be fixed instead. Otherwise we're
no longer the encyclopedia anyone can edit, we're the encyclopedia that
anyone with an extraordinary level of debate skills can edit.
And yet - without
the first level filtering offered by these rules, we
can't easily seek out and remove a lot of obvious abuse.