On 9/30/05, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds very like an obsessive deletionist who's more concerned with > process than product. AFD seems to encourage that sort of thing.

Have you tried visiting Votes for undeletion lately? I did so recently and argued for undeletion of an article. I was asked if I was addressing the content or the process. Why the content, of course, I said. I was then told that this wasn't what VFU was for. Sure enough, the phrase in the undeletion policy that refers to Wikipedia being a better place with an article than without was nowhere to be seen on the page. I updated the instructions *directly* from the undeletion policy. This was reverted several times. Some people claimed that policy had been changed. I pointed out, by reference to the actual policy, that it hadn't. Whereupon a proposal to change policy was made--to exclude any reference undeletion based ona judgement that the content was good for wikipedia. At that point I decided it was time to leave people who wanted to play silly buggers to get on with it.