On 10/3/09, Gwern Branwen <gwern0(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Actually, there is one in there that strikes me
as valid: the shield-mate
one. I know I've read about the idea before in multiple contexts, and
there's the obvious historical example of the Sacred Band. I don't know if
it's *correct*, and it looks like no one has ventured into academia for some
sources so deletion is likely, but that's far from a clear case.
Ok, here's a hypothetical. Let's say out of any twenty given AfD's
that close as "delete", it turns out we get one "wrong". Is that
acceptable? Deletion is hardly the end of the world in itself...
How about I raise you one and say we might have got
*two* wrong out of 20?
Personally I am on the fence about the article about
replicas of the White House. Most likely the decision
to delete is valid, but it is very certainly a threshold
case.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen