Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Internet brigades (3 nomination)
First, may I please ask "delete" voters to stop |attacking Biophys? "Comment on content, not on the contributor." And also may I ask that attempts to silence criticism of the Moscow regime &mdash; '''a government that perpetrates brutal killings, torture, abuse and violence, that carries out unlawful killings, politically motivated abductions, and disappearances in Chechnya, Ingushetiya and elsewhere in the North Caucasus, that has dramatically weakened freedom of expression and media independence by shutting down television networks, harassed, intimidated and even killed journalists (and for that matter set up Internet brigades), is rampantly corrupt, and has turned the Duma into a rubber-stamp while centralizing vast powers in the President (or now his ''eminence grise'')''' &mdash; not be made through blithe, dismissive references to "Putinphobia"? Yes, a man who does all that absolutely ''is'' to be feared! OK, now to the policy reasons for keeping this article. First, no matter how much some may deny this, the phenomenon has been documented in reliable sources, the martyred Politkovskaya not least among them. Second, with expansion of the article to cover Red China and Western nations, we see this is not a Russia-only phenomenon, but one that has been found in other places too, again in reliable sources. Third, this may be the best name we have - though if someone comes up with a better one, by all means let's consider it - but a bad name is ''not'' a rationale for deletion
— User:Biruitorul, 03:48, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NPA (Wikipedia:No personal attacks)