[WikiEN-l] My favorite Wikipedia article ever

Rory Stolzenberg rory096 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 01:43:03 UTC 2007


On 7/8/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 7, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Rory Stolzenberg wrote:
> > It'll be overturned on DRV, since the AfD closure was invalid and
> > many of
> > the people who commented seem to have gotten there from canvassing
> > at a
> > wikiproject anyway.
>
> Yes, clearly a very bad closure.  Closed 5 hours and 19 minutes after
> it opened.
>
> I am no big fan of AfD/DRV these days, but I am pretty sure that DRV
> will be sensible enough to see that this is not even close to a
> proper closure.
>
> (And I wouldn't have even bothered with AfD myself, but instead done
> it under CSD A7.  Although, reading over that one now, it seems to
> strangely purport to only apply to "real person, group of people,
> band, club, company, or web content"... which makes no sense to me.)
>
> --Jimbo


Various people would get very, very angry if anyone besides you said that.
They might even oppose your RfA for it,

Rory


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