Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
Others who should have been promoted but were not for ridiculous reasons include Stephen B Streater and Georgewilliamherbert.
I should add Serpent's Choice to that list. I don't know why his RfA failed, I missed it entirely, but he's been going wonderful work rescuing the most unlikely articles from deletion by making such massive improvements to them that delete votes get retracted in droves. I'm sure he'd rescue even more that way if he could see deleted article histories.