On 4/27/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting... kind of disproves my "Reverse
Psychology Theory",
where I've speculated that the best way to get an article kept is to
be really obnoxious about wanting it deleted, and vice versa.
That works too. You nominate an article for deletion half a dozen
times for stupid reasons, it gets kept each time, then when someone
comes along and nominates it for a good reason people just see the
long list of deletion debates on the talk page and say "Keep per last
time" without bothering to read what last time was, and the article
ends up being kept forever.
Yes, seen this happen all too often. I've starting noting this to editors
on AfDs, this issue that by offering bogus reasons for deletion, you give
other editors the right to argue keep against your bogus reasons. I hope it
has some impact, although I have about 22 minutes a week to devote to
Wikipedia, so probably won't hit but 2 editors this year.
KP