Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2011 Chilean pen incident
just a quick one. I really was (IMHO) a productive editor until this whole fiasco. Look at my http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=500&target=Dubious+Irony contributions. Do I look like a single-purpose-account designed to stir up trouble? I am a real believer in Wikipedia. What left me with a shitty taste in my mouth was not the fact that other editors disagreed that this article should be removed, it's how they went about it. Most of the comments were "it's unencyclopedic!" or "I don't think it applies here!" or "I don't like this article's tone!", or my favourite, "the whole event was silly, therefore we should not cover it". Are you bloody serious? We have articles like Honeypots_in_espionage_fiction but an incident which has 500 separate articles on Google News is somehow unencyclopedic? The reason I left Wikipedia is because editors pay lip service to living by the policies, but actually embrace  as a mantra. To editors like '''FuFoFuEd''' I'll just say one thing: even at my most frustrated, I tried to keep the debate centered on the issues. Never did I once think "maybe my argument won't work, so let me try an ad hominem attack instead". I disagreed with many of the responses I read, but I never assumed that the people behind them were some sort of malicious creatures out to do Wikipedia harm. I knew that they were trying to look out for the best interests of the project. So I ask you this: please continue to debate the merits of this article, but stop your attempts to analyze my motivations, political leanings or try to present me spending a few hours familiarizing myself with Wikipedia guidelines as some sort of mortal sin. Do you see me calling you a right-wing nutjob who sucks the cock of censorship because you want this article deleted? No, you don't, because that would be a ridiculous position to take. So kindly stop making inferences about myself from ''one article'' that I created on WP
— User:Dubious, 20:01, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:IDONTLIKEIT (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)