Deletion review Simon Strelchik Calton it s hard to say what to do here I have the feeling the whole sockpuppet thing is sort of like the O J case the LAPD framed a guilty man In other words if all the puppets were subtracted from the three AfDs I m still not sure what the result would be I m guessing it would not be a consensus for deletion No I m not willing to do the math but it looks like there have been a few attempts themselves possibly puppet infested I don t think the presence of sockpuppets supporting an article necessarily justifies its deletion if the article is otherwise supportable I think Canadian Federal election candidates from the major parties can reasonably be considered suitable for articles but I can be persuaded otherwise We ll see how it goes In any case thanks for the clarification about the accounts confirmed by CheckUser to be socks I agree that the whole VaughanWatch think unlike Simon Strelchik et al was totally out of control Cheers Sir Having read your comments on this Deletion review may I politely ask how many edits it is necessary to have undertaken and am I right in assuming that you would only count constructive and unchallenged unreverted edits before one is qualified to comment on DRvs and I would assume also AFD and similar issues Clearly if such a qualification is required then I have been an egregious offender