Deletion of Street fighting

Comment: As the person who removed the prod tag, I take offense to the statement " tag was removed without improving the article".  As I pointed out in the edit summary, the French Wikipedia article was a former featured article, and though it recently lost it featured article status, it still has several references.  However, I don't read a word of French, so there is no way I could improve the article using those references.  Though I can't read the references, I would be very surprised if there wasn't some useable information there
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Proposed deletion (WP:PROD)

Comment: This article reads like |OR from beginning to end. While it is an extremely notable subject, I agree with
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR)

Comment: I am sorry that you took offence to my nomination language, as no offence was intended; it is just a factual statement. I found the article in a poor state, with virtually no refs, tagged for over two years, clearly no where near Wikipedia's standards and not being actively improved. I PRODed it and you removed the PROD tag, with the suggestion that refs might be found on the French version. The article is still of as poor a quality as when I found it, so I have brought it here to hopefully have it improved, or deleted so it can be started over, working from refs as I mentioned above, instead of trying to find refs to support a large amount of opinion. My statement " tag was removed without improving the article" is simple fact and wasn't intended as an insult. By the rules you are allowed to remove it for any reason and that is part of the reason that we are here at AfD
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Proposed deletion (WP:PROD)