deletion review simon strelchik calton it's hard to say what to do here i have the feeling the whole sockpuppet thing is sort of like the o j case the lapd framed a guilty man in other words if all the puppets were subtracted from the three afds i'm still not sure what the result would be i'm guessing it would not be a consensus for deletion no i'm not willing to do the math but it looks like there have been a few attempts themselves possibly puppet infested i don't think the presence of sockpuppets supporting an article necessarily justifies its deletion if the article is otherwise supportable i think canadian federal election candidates from the major parties can reasonably be considered suitable for articles but i can be persuaded otherwise we'll see how it goes in any case thanks for the clarification about the accounts confirmed by checkuser to be socks i agree that the whole vaughanwatch think unlike simon strelchik et al was totally out of control cheers sir having read your comments on this deletion review may i politely ask how many edits it is necessary to have undertaken and am i right in assuming that you would only count constructive and unchallenged unreverted edits before one is qualified to comment on drvs and i would assume also afd and similar issues clearly if such a qualification is required then i have been an egregious offender