On 7/20/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
And the nominator is so hell bent on getting the redirect deleted that not only did he nominate but he tried to vote twice.
Not surprised. Again, it's broken.
It's some of the people who are broken.
Nominations by accounts whose first activity on Wikipedia is an AfD, votes by editors who've done nothing but participate in AfD, and my personal favorite of the editor who deleted something, then nominated it for deletion based upon it missing what he had just deleted.
This come back to my favorite question. "Are you here to participate in writing an online encyclopedia or are you here to do "X"?". Sometimes "X" is deleting stuff. A well rounded editor will see something he thinks is a problem in the course of his other activities, take it to XFD, see what happens, shrug and get on with his wikilife. Someone here just to delete will do everything in his power, good faith or otherwise, to eliminate his chosen targets and rant and rave when he doesn't get his way.
As far as new accounts nominating and voting in XFDs, I can assume good faith and consider that he's an experienced anon editor who created the account because anons can't nominate. It's hard to do that when the chosen username is something like "whydoesthisexist".