On 29 Sep 2006 at 09:43, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:

I was struck by Seth's account of how he "strongly argued the case against myself" at AFD. I suspect that a biographical article's subject tends to carry significant but paradoxical undue weight at AFD, in two contradictory directions. Subjects who argue that they are notable and that their articles should be kept are obviously vain self-promoters, so their articles should obviously be deleted. But subjects who argue that their articles should be deleted are obviously trying to hide something (or, at least, to unjustly influence the free flow of information), so their articles should obviously be kept.

Yeah... reverse psychology would seem to be a productive way of getting what you want from an AFD, whether it be "keep" or "delete", if you have the smarts to argue strenuously for the *opposite* position to the one you really want, and do it as obnoxiously as possible.