I don't feel WP:CANVAS applies as I didn't tell him to vote a certain way. I understand how my statement can appear to be biased, however I was responding to his comment in the last discussion "Work on toning up our notability requirements to clearly reject such "local-kid-gets-mocked-a-little-bit-online" notability." I made an effort to avoid canvasing by adding tags to people who had voted both ways in the previous AfD.