It is increasingly common that non-notable people write to me after they find their own name in Wikipedia via a google search. They are finding, of course, their own AFD entry.
In these entries there are very very very VERY VERY VERY often comments which suggest a suspicion that the entry was vanity.
"Non-notable scientist vanity. Has very few publications. If he ever publishes anything he should submit the page again then." -- paraphrase of example problematic comment
Now imagine that you are very innocently minding your own business and then you discover that this is the top ranked link in google for your name. How would you feel?
I can tell you how most people feel. They feel sad and annoyed enough to write letters to me about it. And justifiably so. And then I have to figure out what to do with it.
What I recommend is the following procedure:
1. A general meme that it is extremely discourteous without absolute positive proof to speculate that the author of some non-notable biography is the subject himself or herself. Yes, it is often true, but there is zero gain to us from assuming this rather than assuming the opposite. We really don't care who wrote it: we care if it is worthy for inclusion or not.
2. At the close of all VfD debates, the discussion is deleted. If there is a need to have a stub page left there to guide people to the fact that there was a prior debate, then create that stub fresh, with the history gone. In the event it is needed, the history can always be resurrected by some admin.
Is there anything wrong with this concept?