The thing that strikes me about this DRV, as well as the one or two AfD debates on my bio that allowed some responses instead of getting summarily aborted, is that most of those who vote on the inclusionist side are Wikipedians I've never heard of. They come out of the woodwork just for me, and know nothing about me or the history behind my bio. It's a video game, and those who happen to jerk the joystick in the right direction at the right time see that there's this Big Thing going on, and waltz right in. It's not like they have any of their own interests at stake, apart from their little joysticks driven by their little brains.
That means I'll have to fight to have my biography deleted until the day I die. Every 6 months or so, I can take some satisfaction in knowing that many of those who bitterly fought me 6 months ago, now want to delete the bio. Then I have to concede that there's a bottomless pit of wacky Wikipedians who know nothing at all, and they keep coming at me in waves, and outvote the Wikipedians I've managed to wear down. So it starts all over again...
I predict that the upcoming AfD will be about 50/50, and the person closing it won't have the guts to delete on that basis. That's because there's a myth about "consensus" in Wikipedia, and "consensus" seems to be around 70 or 80 percent.
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