Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fred Hagist
According to , an AFD can be speedy closed if ''The nominator withdraws the nomination or fails to advance an argument for deletion—perhaps only proposing a non-deletion action such as moving or merging, and no one other than the nominator recommends that the page be deleted.''. This means that if there are any outstanding delete !votes, the AFD can't be closed. That being said, I have closed AFDs with delete !votes as "nomination withdrawn" per  but those were situations where the AFD was almost a candidate for a  keep (ie 8 "keep" !votes with good rationales, one "per nom" delete !vote and the nominator withdraws). That isn't the case here. There are 2 other editors who are not convinced that the subject meets  or . Therefore, in my judgement, a close of "nomination withdrawn" was not appropriate. The proper thing to do in this case is to ask the 2 "delete" !voters to reconsider
— User:Ron, 01:13, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:SK||WP:IAR||WP:SNOW||WP:NTENNIS||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Speedy keep)