opinion sought hi sleepless i am contacting you somewhat at random as i noticed you have closed several afd recently and as you are generally regarded as a good admin the page user gabrielf tmcruft has been serving as a de facto noticeboard for people proposing and following afd's on a particular topic to an extent has begun to broaden its focus into politically related articles in general serving as an afd conservative noticeboard among several recent examples the yellowcake forgery nomination was listed there as it went on afd this sort of private noticeboard strikes me as quite counter to the ideal collaborative and neutral spirit of afd i doubt for example that we would permit a wp afd noticeboard on topic x isn't that what afd itself is for so i personally take issue with a user space page which is serving the same role of co ordinating editors with a particular outlook there seems to be quite a lot of pre discussion among editors watching that page almost all of it off the relevant article talk pages an unwiki lack of transparency in my opinion enough intro what i'd like your opinion about is whether such a userpage is suitable to put through afd itself i've never seen such userpage not article but i'm not sure how else to go about getting it deleted can it be speedied or am i just nuts and this sort of thing is ok disclaimer i got in a dispute related to the use of this page yesterday my dislike for the noticeboard led to the dispute not the reverse if you have any advice or thoughts to offer it would be appreciated if so please respond here to keep the thread together thank you derex