On 2/23/07, Mark Ryan ultrablue@gmail.com wrote:
Considering that history, how could it possibly be considered appropriate to close this article's deletion review after only 2.5 hours, when most interested users have not even had notice of the DRV's existence?
Agreed. This may or may not be a good time to re-evaluate Brandt's notability, but trying to push through an obviously out of process deletion through aggressive posturing is not my idea of how Wikipedia should work. The proposition that this will reduce the time wasted on this issue is self-defeating; all this is going to accomplish is set into a motion another shitstorm around this issue, and hurt the Wikipedia community.