Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Unilateral deletions are performed hundreds of times a month by Wikipedia Admins on the basis of their own judgement. Perhaps I shouldn't find it shocking that some [[troll (Internet)|opportunist]] found it useful take advantage of Danny's high profile in order to play out a little bit of performance art.
It is unfortunate and uncharacteristic to see you equate the elevation of experienced judgement and consideration over strict policy conformance with a lack of deference to the community.
I think that a significant amount of the confusion here has to do with it being a little unclear whether this was intended as a WP:OFFICE act. It was done under Danny's normal account, with no reference to WP:OFFICE, so I think it is safe to assume this was Danny acting in his capacity and a long standing and widely respected editor exercising editorial judgment in a manner consistent with our longstanding policies of being bold.
It just so happened, as it turns out, that it was triggered by a call to the office.
However, I would expect that our long term participants could stand together, .. that they could see the clearly good intentions of each other, and not allow petty difference of opinion get in the way of friendship, respect, and our over arching goals (which I think we *all* agree does not include Wikipedia being turned into a free advertising forum).
This is one of the finest paragraphs in this entire thread.
--Jimbo