On Nov 11, 2007 7:23 PM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
It depends on the project. Some projects (MILHIST comes to mind, there are others), would be quite trustworthy and even now often nominate inappropriate articles in "their" area for AfD themselves. Others (ROADS comes to mind, I recall them sending out a "newsletter" when a few road articles were up for AfD with an undisguised canvassing attempt, as well as many projects on fictional subjects) would simply reject any request to delete -any- type of cruft in "their" area.
Sadly this shilling has two sides. While what you say is entirely true, there is almost nobody around on wikipedia who would say that despite military history buffs monomaniacal interest in their subject, something most people would find zero interest in, means it should be presumed a priori likely to be non-encyclopaedic.
-- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]