wexter wrote: ↑Wed Dec 07, 2022 4:16 pm
The "Article for Deletion(AFD)" was shut down with "keep" to keep the contentious rabble at bay.
That's not all. It was "closed as SNOW Keep", meaning an overwhelming mess they could not heel or control. And it was the notorious robot-by-the-rooooolz Sandstein who closed it. Long infamous for not caring about anyone's "feelings", nor about the corrosive internal politics of WMF projects. Mister By The Book (even though the book is a load of incoherent crap).
As Dan Murphy said on WPO:
Sandstein has always been an idiot.
The final length: 186,210 bytes, making it one of the longest AFDs in history. AFD statistics are very difficult to study without literal YEARS of effort. And many of the most outrageous ones were completely obliterated. So don't bother asking what the longest ones are.
The only attempt to keep semi-official track of AFDs is
this private page, started last year. Rigidly organized by day and month and assembled by a custom bot, not complete, since the first AFD squabble was in 2003. Seventeen years of "history", in a "summary" format no one can read easily. Lovely. Note how many of the recent AFDs attract little or no attention and are basically ignored. Those stats are very likely to be inaccurate thanks to incessant censorship by admins and oversighters. He's got a
list of the longest AFDs of all time--again, likely to be inaccurate.
Longest one listed, the
SIXTH attempt to delete "Mass killings under communist regimes" held last year. 510,000 bytes. Need some solid evidence that WP is being controlled by manic leftists, who would (OF COURSE) resent actual facts of communist governments slaughtering people? Read thru that giant shitshow. Andythegrump and an Italian socialist named Davide King, with a few supporters, basically fought all comers to a standstill--and failed. Now you know why Andythegrump is a toxic little shit.