[WikiEN-l] an ED article (was Featured Editors?)

[Gwern Branwen]

On 2007.11.15 16:43:27 +0000, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> scribbled 0 lines:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:30:27 +0000, "James Farrar"
> <james.farrar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Having an article because they hate us is no better than not having
> >> one because they hate us.
> >
> >[[Daniel Brandt]], for instance...
> >
> >(OK, technically we don't have an article on him not because he hates
> >us, /per se/, but because after 14 AFDs reasonable people got bored
> >with the circus and threw in the towel.)
>
> Got good, non-trivial biographical sources about Brandt?  I know
> where to find deletion review.
>
> Brandt's article was deleted for lack of sources.
>
> Guy (JzG)
> --

Just for those who weren't around for the Brandt articles: what Guy is saying here is arrant nonsense. The Brandt article had dozens of good sources stretching back decades. It was deleted out of a combination of WP:IDONTLIKEIT and WP:NEVILLECHAMBERLAIN.

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gwern
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