Mark Gallagher wrote:
G'day Ilmari,
"And yes, anything that can be deleted, probably should be deleted, because we must have articles only on truly worthy topics so to continue to be highly regarded by the reading public."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Resonance_%28MI...
(I disagree, obviously. Other than that, I'll let the article and the debate on it speak for themselves.)
I note, though, that neither you nor anyone else who has commented or is likely to comment here has seen fit to add your voices to the AfD in question.
AfD is doomed: it doesn't, and can't, scale. But its only *current* problems are social. And those problems won't be solved if the people who can recognise the issue and lend a hand aren't willing to get in there and do something about it.
Don't like what someone says on AfD? *Point it out to them*. Most people, even on the Internet, tend to be smart enough to recognise it when they're told they're being silly by enough people. You obviously feel strongly about the opinions expressed there --- so why not, instead of/in addition to complaining here, also tell them so on the AfD?
This is especially important as Crzrussian has recently become an administrator. He intends to be heavily involved in the deletion process. It's too late to revisit the RfA, so y'all have a choice --- he can be a good admin, or he can routinely fuck up anything related to deletion he comes across. I suspect the former is much more likely if everyone here who typically complains about this sort of thing is willing to *educate*, as well as bitch.
Unfortunately it's difficulte to point things out and educate these sort of people without violating WP:NPA.