QUOTE(Daniel Brandt @ Sat 3rd March 2007, 11:45pm)
This AfD was frontloaded with mysterious sockpuppets and full of "he's so notable" propaganda.
It's kind of ridiculous, actually!
For example, one of the most dishonest and deceitful (and therefore damaging) people in this whole circus has been someone going by the name of
User:DennyColt, who went far, far out of his way to re-post a bunch of mostly-bogus article links on the recent premature AfD. Here's a guy who shows up on January 28th, just a month ago, and
immediately goes on a tear, making several dozen rapid-fire edits within the first hour, including this
complicated use of the PROD tag, and also creating a new article about comic book artist
Tim_Kirk - and by his third day he's already using a script called "Twinklefluff" to revert people! Could he possibly be a sock puppet, perhaps of someone who got banned for, say, link-spamming, or maybe WP:VAIN?
Naaaahhh!His rationale for wanting the Brandt article kept is the same as the others, of course - "Denny" writes biographical articles about obscure comic book writers and artists, and HEAVEN FORBID anyone would ever want to set a precedent that might allow deletion of
those. See, those biographies make nice baubles for collectors' websites, where people are trying to sell old comic books and such - "
See, this guy's famous! You can read about him on Wikipedia!
You should buy these exceedingly rare and sought-after comic books right now, before the prices go waaaay up!" That's how lots of people make their extra money, selling stuff for inflated prices on the internet, along with Social Security... I guess you can hardly blame them, though. Everyone needs
extra money, right? Who cares if others have to
suffer, eh?
World's biggest spam engine, indeed.
Brandt's article deleted, undeleted, stubbed, ad infinitum..., The BLP war era continues
