On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Charles Matthews < charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com>
As far as I know, motivation is still a bad argument at AfD. The basic "conflict of interest" point is not that motives should be pure, whatever that means, but that outside motivation should not be playing a role so large that the interests of the encyclopedia are pushed to one side.
And how should the role of outside motivation be determined? Personally, I think "conflict of interest" and "outside motivation" arguments should be completely verboten in deletion discussions - they are irrelevant and call for pure speculation by participants. I don't care why an article was created, what matters is the quality and value of the content itself.
Nathan