[WikiEN-l] Special rules for "controversial" AFDs

[Ron Ritzman]

On 4/8/07, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:

> Why does an AFD have to be "workable"?  If there is consensus for
> something to be done, it should be pretty obvious.

Sometimes a person(s) who really really wants an article kept or gone
for reasons other then wikipedia policy will flood an AFD with
sock/meat puppets and use them to sling bullshit all over the place.
With all this noise it's almost impossible to reach a true consensus
one way or the other. What geni did was set special ground rules for a
particular AFD to keep them from doing that. All "votes" from accounts
with less then 150 edits were moved to the talk page. He did this
because he suspected that there were "sleeper socks" ready to wake up
and invade this particular AFD.