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 == RfM Howard == 

 Hi Daniel, just a question about the rejection of the Howard RfM. Of the original editors invited to the RfM, only one declined in the hope that would cause the RfM to be rejected. The many other editors on the list were not involved in the article or discussions for many months. They were only invited later after someone requested them, however we knew that such a large invitation of people from the deep past would never result in every one of them accepting. I thought that in this case, because we were inviting people who had disappeared from Wikipedia long ago that the RfM would be accepted even if not all participants responded.'''''' "