Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sam Blacketer controversy
There are big signs saying that this is ''not'' a majority vote, and yet when Daniel accidentally prematurely closed this debate, he said, "Therefore, the only way to determine which argument is applied in situations like this is to determine what portion of the community agrees with either - the discussion below shows a stronger agreement with the belief that this does not meet the standard for inclusion", but that seems to me to be treating this rather like a majority vote. Is there not a better approach here with respect to policy? Consider the recent |deletion review for Rognvald Richard Farrer Herschell, 3rd Baron Herschell, where a slight majority of comments were for deletion, but where the article was kept. There are explanatory comments there like, "We don't look at these discussions purely in voting terms. The emphatic principle of  is When in doubt, don't delete." And a second person endorsed the keeping of the article "as a valid reading of strength of arguments. We don't vote on Wikipedia, so the exact number of votes is irrelevant. Both sides have good points, so no consensus is the correct outcome." Applying that logic would seem to suggest that if, as Daniel concluded, there are valid arguments on both sides, we should not count votes but conclude "no consensus" and therefore keep the article (or keep the material under a new David Boothroyd article). I offer this as an attempt to interpret policy; not as a vote
— User:Bondegezou, 10:41, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:DRV||WP:DGFA (Wikipedia:Deletion policy)