On 2/23/06, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
A crappy version a long time ago that didn't read anything close to an encyclopedia article was AfD'd. A new version, more neutral, was created, and it was AfD'd *unsuccessfully* something like 5 times, interspersed with some sysops occasionally speedying it and it being unspeedied.
Yet another confusion of content and subject. If the subject is un Wikipiedia-like, then it doesn't matter whether the old version was "crappy" or not.
Every vote on the article in question (i.e. not the very early one) has come out somewhere near a deadlock. The most I've seen in favor of deleting is something like 60-65%, which is nowhere near the consensus to delete typically required on AfD.
Were these votes on the basis of content or subject?
Sorry to keep on harping on, but it's a pretty important question, and most of these arguments seem to completely blur the line.
Steve