On 29 Sep 2006 at 09:43, Steve Summit <scs(a)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.
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