On 6/13/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
No matter the merits of the article, the process he's been put through is totally unacceptable by any standard. We've shown we can't be trusted with a Brandt bio, and we should delete it for that reason alone, no matter how notable any of us thinks he is.
Despite the bickering, throughout most of that period the article has actually been pretty good from what I've seen; occasionally a little too obsessed with small if verifiable detail, but sourced to a pretty high quality most of the time.
I feel no pity for a immoral self-publicist like Brandt, who's loved the attention from the beginning. I'm in favor of the article being deleted simply because deleting it and not talking about him any more is what he'll hate the worst. If that's possible; I'm not sure a deletion will stick, personally, nor stop the squabble - at best it'll move it to other pages.
-Matt