[WikiEN-l] [[Daniel Brandt]] is gone again

[Bryan Derksen]

And naturally it's gone as a result of what looks to me like a rather
messy process.

The 14th AfD just closed. The result was the usual 200 kilobytes of keep
and delete !votes, and the closing admin interpreted the result as a
consensus to split up and merge the material into the articles
[[NameBase]], [[CIA HTTP cookies controversy]], [[Google Watch]] and
[[Criticism of Wikipedia]]. He promptly turned the article into a
redirect to [[NameBase]] and indefinitely protected it.

Naturally, a DRV is underway. I'm a bit surprised by how strongly it's
swinging "endorse" right now, this outcome strikes me as really bizarre.
 Is this more BLP mania in action? Why can't we have even a stub
biography of someone who's featured significantly in four other
articles? Shouldn't BLP apply just the same no matter where the material
winds up?

I hate to start complaint threads like this one, but this really caught
me by surprise and I'm wondering if I'm really so far out of touch that
this should be making sense to me.