In a recent discussion on the Wiki someone made a proposal which began "In the case of biographies of living people, where a number of editors have expressed the opinion either (...)". One of the outspoken critics of the general class of proposal began his retort "First, what is 'a number'? As a mathematician I'll tell you that 0 is a number."
Now, I didn't particularly support this proposal either, ... but I'm not about to argue that zero users fits the proposed criteria. In the same general set of proposals there were a couple of people earnestly arguging that some change to AfD closure procedure could be expected to result in the deletion of [[George W. Bush]] and [[Bill Clinton]]. ... I don't think the particulars of the proposal are relevant for the meta-issue I'm raising here, if you want to argue about BLP and AfD there is a dandy discussion going on on the wiki...
But how can the project ever hope to continuing surviving when people slash at honest proposals with outrageously literalistic arguments like this?