Anthony wrote:
In fact, the first time one particular article went up for deletion (I think it was Jimbo, but it might have been Angela), I voted to delete it out of respect for their wishes.
To my recollection, the article about me has never been up for AfD. For a long time past when NPOV would have demanded it, we did not have an article about me, for two reasons. First, as a courtesy to me, because I felt silly about it. Second, to head off a potential snarky critique of Wikipedia: "A new online encyclopedia, with 1,000 articles, including one about the founder, ha ha ha!"
Of course we are still vulnerable to the critique in a more sophisticated form, in that I believe that many more articles than should talk about Wikipedia itself in connection with various well-known figures.
--Jimbo