An excellent article on a marginal topic is kept. A useless article on a marginal topic is deleted. A marginal article on a marginal topic may or may not be deleted. This is as it should be.
This is clearly your opinion, but you haven't really shown any reason for someone with a differing opinion to change his or her mind.
Regardless of the context this is such an excellent sentence that it made me laugh out loud :) I'll have to keep it somewhere. This is so often the case and I'm guilty as charged.
I just don't see the point of spending your time listing something on AfD (and thereby taking up a bunch of other people's time as well) when you could have spent about the same amount of time replacing the article with a redirect or a one-line stub.
If I can replace absolute crap with a one-line stub then, sure, I'll do that. But using redirects as a sort of pseudo-deletion is something I'm a bit uncomfortable with.
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I seem to be coming across as some sort of AfD-troll out to decimate badly formatted marginal articles, or something :) That's not the case at all. I don't think I've ever brought anything but slam-dunk cases to AfD and I try to do it as gently as I can. Here's my most recent nomination:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Razz_The_Rabbit
Regards, Haukur